Recently built an instructional product based around the music video for Wordsmithin’. The learning module teaches GRE words but would also work for students learning SAT words.

I built the project for my Instructional Theory class at SFSU. The idea is that the product would be a stand-alone learning website that users could visit again and again in order to improve their vocabulary. File this under “Rapper” and not “Green.”

Check it out here.

A couple of years ago, I was studying for the GRE and decided to make up a rap to learn the common vocabulary words found on the test. I recorded the song a while back and recently threw together a video for the song using stop motion animation and some choppy footage I took when I snuck my video camera into the library. As a public service for those who may be taking the SAT or GRE in the future, we bring you “Wordsmithin’” - a video guaranteed to teach you a new word and/or give you motion sickness. Ironically, I still haven’t applied to grad school or used one of these words in a conversation. The guys over at Flocabulary have turned educational raps into an art form, though I’m sure they’d probably have something to say about the pedagogical soundness of this video.

Read on for a full list of words in the song