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Showing posts with label historyteachers. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Making music when talking history

There is a site I've run into a few times over the years, and I'm happy to see it stay relevant.  There is a channel on youtube from History teachers in Hawaii who take popular songs and remake them into music videos for unit topics.

When I was subbing, and the students would beg to listen to music, I would open this channel and watch to see how long it took for them to realize it wasn't what they were expecting.  I love each video, but one of my favorites is their video for the French Revolution:



Do you see any tie to how you'd use Animoto, or think there is a video they made you find exceptional?