Week 28 in Class: The YouTubes
This week’s share will be YouTube videos. YouTube videos can be a great source of short videos on topics that can help illuminate a larger topic your teaching. Here’s how I used them:
Right now we’re finishing up a unit on music (Beyond the Notes in the Open Court reading series). YouTube is a great source of music from almost every style and time period. We’ve studied Beethoven, and Ray Charles as part of this. Here are some videos I’ve used:
two cellos thunderstruck – YouTube This is an anachronism that works. Two guys on a cello in front of a baroque era audience (Vienna, maybe?) playing…AC/DC’s” Thunderstruck”. I works for a couple reasons. It gives a fresh view of “classical” instruments and also how music may changes but some things stay the same.
ray charles – YouTube
boogie woogie – YouTube Students read a story about Ray Charles, playing boogie-woogie, but few know what that means even though they go to piano lab in school once a week, and many take piano lessons after school. These two videos give a good example of Charles’ early sound, Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 28 in Class: The YouTubes:
boogie woogie – YouTube Students read a story about Ray Charles, playing boogie-woogie, but few know what that means even though they go to piano lab in school once a week, and many take piano lessons after school. These two videos give a good example of Charles’ early sound, Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 28 in Class: The YouTubes: