I've spent the last hour researching, and registering for my own "Skype in the Classroom" account. It seems this is a site where I can potentially give and receive a variety of music lessons. At this point I am much more comfortable "receiving" lessons, so I have spent considerable time looking at the teachers and lessons available via Skype. There are supposedly 1562 lessons that pertain to "music," however on closer inspection it appears there are less than 100 that "really" have to do with music education. Violin, guitar, voice lessons...opportunties to collaboratively sing with other choirs around the world....many different possible lessons available. Now that I have registered, it will be interesting to see if I am able to make any of these lessons available to my students.
This will take some time and experimentation to figure out the quality of the teachers and lessons available.
I question if music lessons available on youtube won't be easier to preview/evaluate and be more accessible.
I have only used Skype a few times, can you Skype with multiple people at the same time? Does this mean you could have Chorus on snow days? Or kids could rehearse together from their homes? It all sounds so cool, but like you said, you have to evaluate the quality of the teachers, but also the use of time. Best of luck! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Not that I could participate in any singing, but I could be a person on the other end if you need a guinea pig.
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Megan
This is a great idea, Kimberly!
ReplyDeleteIt could be a valuable teaching tool to watch yourself give a lesson. I'm sure kids would love to experience music lessons online.
If you wanted to, could you provide lessons to classes in other towns or states? Countries? That would be pretty crazy!
Have you ever thought about Skyping with other schools and preform for one another? There are a lot of ways you can use this! Very cool!