Week 4: The Spy Glass

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Above is my attempt to copy the animoto video on to the screen. I have a feeling it is not working. I tried cutting and pasting several different ways, but I am having a very hard time getting it to embed. Photostory was even worse. Every time I try to play back the video I made (which was a much better video than animoto), it errored and closed. I didn't get it saved after a lot of work, and I am very frusterated with that program. Animoto is inferior in its ability to deliver and the editor's ability to edit. I have a program called Sonic that does a much better job at the same basic idea.

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetID=b9e4011c-b9b3-4ff0-b0c9-9fa2d2e66968

This is a video segment from discoveryeducation.com about the history of Latin Jazz, which is very summery to me, so I find it interesting today. I love discovery education. I have been using video segments for a while, but I learned so much more about it today. I like the calendar feature that will help me do "today in music history" on certain dates. And the Atlas feature is SO cool. I will be able to teach my students about the geography and culture as we learn music from all over the world. This is so much better than trying to explain what Cambodia is or what Israel is!

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=29711

I am less excited about teachertube.com . There is little music education here, and what is here is mainly fluff. I guess I can use it for humor here and there.

http://www.teachertube.com/blogComment.php?blog_id=1066

I believe that the era of connectivity is apon us, and it is our responsibility to embrace it and use it for good. We can choose to use networking for evil or sloth, or we can choose to use it to connect to our world. While a few years ago, we really didn't understand the plight of African tribes or the problems in Asia, now we have instant direct information and the ability to connect to actual citizens in other countries. I think we can choose to let the information destroy us or enable us. I intend to show my students not just the music of the world, but the culture of the nations and even the direct reports from the other lands where possible. If we can truly understand our world, then we can save it from genocyde, from manmade disasters, and from hatred and malintent.