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So if you have a student with reading difficulty or if you struggle with
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reading yourself, one thing that can help is to add music. And that's because music
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and songs help your brain to comprehend and retain information in a fun and
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engaging way. So I'm going to show you a new website called Riff It that's going
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to allow you to create your own personalized song from any text passage
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But before I do that, feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel where each week I'll be uploading new videos on a variety of different topics. So the
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website is called Riff It. You can find it at riffitnow.com and what this
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website will allow you to do is to take a passage of text and essentially turn
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that into a song that hopefully will help you to comprehend and understand
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the text a little bit better. I'm going to start by logging in and as soon as I
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log in I can create my first song. So I'm going to select the new button and I'm
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going to choose from these two options to enter my text. I can either enter it
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as text characters or I can import a document. I'm going to choose this first
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option that says enter text and I have this nice little passage that I created
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to share some information about Riff It with you. I'm just going to copy this
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text and I'm going to paste the text in this window and then select create. From
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here it's going to allow me to select one of these different genres. I'm going
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to start by choosing hip-hop and then it's going to give me the option of a
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singer. I have choices of two female singers and one male singer so I'll just
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take the male singer. I can select the different speed and tempo of the song. I
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can also alter and change the pitch as well as adjust the music or the vocals
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But I think this option will be good so I'm going to select render and in just a
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few minutes my song will be ready. And there we go you can see my song is..
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just about finished rendering. Let's take a listen and see how it sounds
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Riff It is a text to music platform that promotes accessibility for struggling
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readers. Teachers can use Riff It as a tool to increase text access. So you get an
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idea of how easy that was. Once you finish there are options for you to
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share. You can either copy the link or you can actually share it to Google
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Classroom. So this is a really great way for you to create a song from any
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passage of text which you can then share on your interactive whiteboard with your
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students and hopefully help them learn. Now let's see how this works with a little bit of a longer reading passage. Here's a reading article that I pulled
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up from New Zetla. So I'm just going to go and copy all of the text in this
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article. I'm going to go back to Riff It. I'm going to select enter text and I
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will paste the text. And I'm just gonna call this song space. Let's go ahead and
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create the song. I will put pop on here. I'm going to make this playback speed a
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little bit faster. Make the pitch a little quicker. I'm going to make my
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volume a little louder than the music. Let's go ahead and render the song. So
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this is done rendering. Let's take a listen to hear how it sounds
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So hopefully that gives you an idea of how Riff It works. You can take any text
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passage, any document and automatically turn that into a song. Now the one thing
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I will say is that while it will allow you to copy the link to your clipboard and to share to Google Classroom, it doesn't give you the option to download
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the mp3 or audio file. I think that's one feature that's a little bit lacking
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in Riff It. But if you're interested in a technology that will allow you to take any text and turn that into a song, go ahead and check out Riff It at
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riffitnow.com. It's completely free. Thank you so much for watching this video
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If you have any other questions, go ahead. Thank you so much for watching this
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video. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments section below
