Saturday, July 11, 2009

Online Video Resources for Educators

I checked out the open source music website. I really like the fact some of the artists include their websites where you can access additional information about them. What I wonder is if you use additional music form their websites are they open source as well? The songs once, chosen open automatically into windows media player.
The website provides additional resources in relationship to music; talks, your own participation and more. All the music that is available through this website is categorized by several categories which includes genre etc. I want to explore this website further once back at my school district to see that students can access the website. If they can it would be a great benefit for their future projects in order to keep in compliance with copyright and fair use.
If teachers have the access at their individual school districts they will be able to utilize easily the music for multiple projects. This would really provide teachers ways to create projects for classroom use without having to worry about copyright infringement.
Pros VS Cons: Easy to use and allows for teachers to freely use the music to create without worry of copyright infringement. The only con I see is that it’s not geared just for teachers or the education system. It would be great if there were categories that are focused on educational use. For example a patriotic category, young children appropriate category etc.

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