rock band is the new 1st grade

ok... so maybe the title of my current blog doesn't quite make sense to most people, but it absolutely makes sense to the young individuals who are into musical video games (i.e. rock band or guitar hero). Recently, I filmed a video of my girlfriend playing drums to a the song "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the video game "Rock Band" while her six-year-old sister, Maddie,sang the vocals. For nearly ten days, I tried to upload the video, that I originally d0wnloaded on my hardrive, onto Youtube and Blogger.com...without much success. I waited more than 24 hours to publish a 2-minute video online...but even then, the websites would not upload the material I was planning on using. Although I do plan on figuring out how to link my personally taped Rock Band video to my blog, I don't know how long it will continue to take me. However, I must express how this particular video game benefits the education of young children. My girlfriend's sister, Maddie, has a limited amount of reading comprehension at the age of six. However, this specific video game has been used as a tutorial for her progressive reading abilities. While Maddie is no stranger to the relative "Rock Band" game called "Guitar Hero", she has been insistent on singing the vocals for the career mode on "Rock Band". She may not sing loudly during gameplay, but she enjoys reading and singing the lyrics that run across the top of the screen. These types of video games may provide additional educational opportunities for children, but it's a far stretch from the normative process of traditional reading in grade school. I hope that I can produce further footage, emphasizing my recent researh on this topic within the near future.