Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Youtube, should you use it?
Using YouTube in your classroom is a wonderful tool as a music educator. You can access almost any song by any composer or any artist. This is a great to show your students interesting music examples from different parts of the world as well! If you want to learn about African drumming or about Zimbabwean musics, you can easily search it and you will get hundreds of musical examples. One thing to be weary of if you are using YouTube, is authenticity. You will not always find "good" quality music from YouTube, since everyone can upload their own rendition of their favorite song. You can also do a show and tell project in your classroom with YouTube. Ask your students to find a song on YouTube and present it to the class, this gets them engaged and searching for musics, they may stumbled on some music that they have never heard before! Finding new music is very easy on YouTube, however you must be careful when you search, not everything is authentic and not everything is done by a reputable musician. I would recommend YouTube to any teacher and for any classroom (not just music related.)
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Dan youtube is such a helpful tool to use in all classrooms! i love the show and tell project you made with the music videos. You could also try a scavenger hunt on youtube for your students to find different genres, songs, and artists videos. I love when students have the opportunity to be creative with the scavenger hunt and they can really expose themselves to new and interesting things!
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