YouTube in Music Education - NOW AVAILABLE!
Posted by jamesfrankel on January 5th, 2010
This past year I had the pleasure of writing a book titled YouTube in Music Education with my dear friend Tom Rudolph, which has just been published by Hal Leonard. I finally received my copy in the mail yesterday, and I must say that I am proud of the result. Tom and I have hopefully created a resource for music educators that serves a few different needs that we saw.
1. It is a guide to the many different ways that YouTube can be used in the music classroom - across the curriculum. We both believe that YouTube is perhaps the single most important educational resource available on the Internet. So many videos to enhance any aspect of a music curriculum.
2. It provides methods for incorporating the site safely and securely into your teaching, where students can find resources, post comments, and more without the fear of other users having access to the materials and discourse. There are step-by-step directions on how to create a secure YouTube channel for use with students of all ages.
3. It discusses copyright issues that effect the materials on the site and how you can (and can’t) use them with your students.
4. It provides music educators with a resource to try to convince administrators to unblock the site for use in the classroom.
5. It provides step-by-step tutorials for creating your own videos using both Mac and PC based software.
I hope that you pick up a copy of the book - it’s not that expensive - and let me know what you think. We have created a companion website and a YouTube channel which will hopefully be up and running in the next week or two. Stay tuned!
I welcome your comments, questions, and feedback!
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January 7th, 2010 at 12:27 am
Dear Mr. Frankel,
Thank you for sharing your new book and websites with music educators on the net. I am currently in a Master’s program right now having to do with Intergrating Technology in the classroom. I am a chorus teacher, and I would love to post videos of my students concerts and such on websites such as youtube, or even schooltube. I wanted to post the videos and have my students watch their performance and critique themselves, but our filters block youtube. I put in to have the website unblocked to use for my class, and I was denied. I am curious to see what suggestions I could have used to have the website unblocked for me to use in the classroom. I agree Youtube is a great tool for teaching, and I have gotten many great ideas for my classes in using it.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:33 am
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