Monday, March 8, 2010

We Didn't Start the Fire - Review

This teachertube video would be really helpful for introducing students to American history. Music is an easy way to catch students' interest. Teachers could do a K-W-L with the students and have them write down what they know, want to know, and later, what they have learned.

Since this is used for an educational purpose rather than entertainment, it would be okay to use in the classroom setting.

For music videos, the standard restriction is 10% or less than 30 seconds, and this video uses the whole song.

Despite this, playing the whole song for students does not particularly diminish the market value of the piece, so a teacher could probably use it. Teachers should not, however, post the video on the website so that students could repeatedly listen to the song.

1 comment:

  1. Another note, the creator of the video also needs to ensure that the images used on the video were not copyrighted, or that they used the pictures from a variety of sources.

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