Being a music teacher, I love the internet because it gives me access to many different recordings, resources and different video clips of musical performances. While I don't allow my kids to search YouTube, I love that it has so many clips on it that I sometimes like to show under my control. My fourth graders recently learned to sing the song "Kookaburra" in canon, and I was able to show the kids a clip of a live kookburra bird, along with the "laughing" sound it makes. I have used clips to teach famous songs from American history, as well as instruments of the orchestra. The amount of clips on the site is virtually limitless.
Since I have so many clips that I like to reference, I was so excited to learn about Delicious. What a great place to keep all of these links! I love that I can tag the links and find other links based on shared tag names with other Delicious account holders. It also keeps me from having to do a search each time I want to find a clip I once used. Now if there was only a place to remember all of the various passwords needed to maintain all of these accounts. :-)
Week 14
13 years ago
I like how you are using youtube to bring the songs to life. I remember singing that song and thinking what the heck is a kookaburra anyway. I guess I just figured it was some fancy koala! Anyway, if we have access to these things in our classrooms it is so much easier to help students make connections. I did something similar recently with a new vocabulary word we had. El coquí is a special frog that is native to Puerto Rico. We were able to pull up a video quickly and have a better idea of why it is often identified as the symbol of Puerto Rico.
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