Saturday, June 28, 2008

Mixwit..com


Mixwit


We know that today's students are plugged-in, volume turned up, I need music for everything I do type kids. Well why don't we use that to our advantage and have students create projects by making play lists that students can share with the class that is revolved around a subject. To achieve this great idea a website called MixWit Media Playground is a perfect and sleek way of doing so. This site is still running in Beta, so there can be some problems in it, such as some of the music that I added in my example wouldn't work at first, I'm guessing some type of copyright issue, but that's not my problem.

I think the best way is incorporate this into a project or classroom would be a doing genres of music in history in classes by breaking music down by 60's, 70's, etc. Or my favorite, a good icebreaker for the beginning of the year! Every student has to listen to some type of music. It could be from what they listen to on their 80 gig iPod, or whatever their parents play. Music usually shows you who they are outside of the classroom. My students can't believe that I listen to mellow music like Micheal Buble as well as the newest Lil Wayne. You can learn a lot and connect on another level just by listening to what they like!

By the way, I think this site is awesome!

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