How Do You Use YouTube?
Posted by jamesfrankel on March 6th, 2009
My good friend Tom Rudolph and I are working on a project that focuses on the different ways that music educators are using YouTube to teach music. Are there some great videos that you use to teach certain musical concepts? Do you post student videos to the service? Do you create videos for your students to learn from? If you have a use of YouTube that you would like us to include in our project, please email me directly at jtfrankel@hotmail.com and we will consider them.
In addition to the uses of YouTube content in the classroom, we’d like to know about whether your school district allows you to access the service in your classroom. If they don’t, how do you get around it? Do you use proxy servers or do you use some type of software that allows you to download the videos to your hard drive? We’d like to know how music educators are dealing with any roadblocks that their districts might have in place. We are fully aware that there are legal issues surrounding this, we are just interested in how people are dealing with firewalls.
I look forward to hearing from you. If you know someone else who uses YouTube in the classroom, please pass this post on.
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March 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hi Dr James Frankel,
Recently I have started a Web2.0 project to test the reaction & acceptance of my students & parents.
Basically, I chose Blogger & Youtube as my tool, because there are quite user friendly, after I had uploaded my videos to Youtube I would embed it to my video blog, and I linked my blogspot & youtube a/c.
Your comment & suggestion would be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Dennis Ng.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Hi, Jim.
My school system blocks YouTube. I haven’t tested whether it blocks TeacherTube, but I suspect that it might. TIME OH talked about using YouTube in one of our workshops and we had the same issue regarding blocked access.
Regarding the use of YouTube with my students: I would have to clear it with my school district and have all of the video subjects sign waivers. If this were to come to fruition, I would have to create the video files and upload them from home.
It is for those reasons that I haven’t fully explored this topic, but am tossing the idea around. Keep me posted.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:04 am
This is a great idea. I’ll email you details and look forward to reading about your findings.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Our district blocks YouTube and Blogs of any kind. I download videos from YouTube then upload them to TeacherTube. From there I can embed the TeacherTube video on my website.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:44 am
Wayne,
Thanks for your comment. What program do you use to download YouTube videos?
Sorry to hear that your district blocks YouTube!
Great meeting you in San Antonio!
Jim
March 9th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Hi Jim
I use keepvid.com.
Thanks - I had a great time in San Antonio.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Jim,
In addition to simply using youtube as a repository of my own and also class made videos, one of the interesting things about youtube is that it has changed how I find a small portion of my materials for my Jazz History Class. Of course, as you well know, the issue with many of the materials found on youtube is copyright and whether or not they are there with permission or without.
I think you have to assume that many of the music performances found on youtube, especially with regard to commercial groups are that they are contraband. However, it doesn’t seem that many, if any, of the rights holders care, and dare I say, actually may find that youtube brings a new dimension of awareness for their “product” via the venue.
In the end there are so many videos of “never found”, “never seen”, “couldn’t find”, “didn’t know exisited”, “can’t buy anymore”, “not availalbe” jazz videos of the the “greats” on there that I frequently use them in class to demonstrate an artist along with my plethora of legal media. I too have to admit that I’ve used keepvid on occasion so that I will never have to worry about loosing some of these jazz treasures and real GEMS that have been/may still be lost in obscurity.
As someone who is well versed in the online music copyright debates myself, I find youtube a real conundrum at times as there are so many incredible educational learning opportunities that can be found there to be viewed -yet many times the fact that these are bootlegged posts in someway is hard to gloss over and defend one’s actions of using them…
Honest confessions of a closet you-tube using jazz teacher,
J. Pisano
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
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