National Children's Folksong Repository
PRESERVE OUR AMERICAN VERNACULAR SONGS - OUR ORAL CULTURE
FUN FOR THE FAMILY & FUN FOR EVERYONE
BE A PATRIOT AND SAVE OUR HISTORY
Phone-o-folk song. Phone-o-phonic. Phone-o-funk.
It's a game song or game chant that you phone in but it ain't phony.
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U.S. RESIDENTS CALL TOLL FREE EASTERN TIME 1-877-220-0262
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SAY THE NAME OF YOUR SONG
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YOUR TOWN + STATE
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THE YEAR
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NOW START
YOU MAKE HISTORY
YOUR VOICE IS
ON THE NET FOREVER
GET SMART
ONLY YOU CAN SAVE WHAT IS LEFT.
Please record your game songs, American Playground Poetry, the folksongs, jump rope chants, kiddy rhymes, circle games, play parties, call and response songs, lullabys - using your MP3, shoe phone, or computer.
CALL TOLL FREE
1-877-220-0262
- SAY THE NAME OF YOUR SONG
- YOUR TOWN + STATE
- THE YEAR
- NOW START
Find the National Children's Folksong Repository of indigenous playground poetry. It is the U.S. Online Library where you can Record American folksongs, jump rope chants, rhymes, songs, using your ipod, phone, or computer.
Remember Netizen . . .The Net Belongs To You !!
Silver and gold will rot away but a good education will never decay.
"Schools often only see playground rhymes as an encroachment into literacy, they're only interested in seeing the playground as a problem, not as a stimulus to literacy."
PLAY IS SERIOUS WORK for the young and old from the novice to the experienced. It's about all the different ways we play to learn. Larger brains are linked to greater levels of play. In other words, playing makes you intelligent.
Rich or poor, young or old, male or female, play has evolved to shape the overall architecture and to build big brains, explaining why children need the playground just as much as the classroom. Play is for Life Long Learners. RESEARCH PDF
Listen to the story about HOW BALLADS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING LITERACY.
The Roots of Print, Power, Politics, Literacy, Ballads, Plays, Thought and failed Censorship. Who is allowed to write? Who is allowed to read? Who is allowed to hear? Who is allowed to print? Who is allowed to publish!
- MORE ABOUT MY WORK BACKGROUND STORY 1976 - 2006
JOURNEY FROM THE MEAT SPACE PLAYGROUND TO THE CYBERPLAYGROUND
- FIND THE FOLKSONGS UF STUDY: CHILDREN’S KNOWLEDGE GAP OF FOLK SONGS THREATENS OUR HERITAGE Children in the United States aren’t singing the songs of their heritage, an omission that puts the nation in jeopardy of losing a longstanding and rich part of its identity. Find out your state rank.
- CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EVOLUTION, MUSIC, LANGUAGE, READING.
- PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE HEAR JACQUIE'S FRIENDS from USIP.edu
