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Thorough instructions on how to create videos as a classroom project...FREE! Topics covered: Copyright & Creative Commons, Creating your own audio tracks, Screencasting, Finding images & audio, Documentary, Full length videos, & Sharing videos 

Digital media is increasingly present in kids' formal and informal educational settings, becoming as common as pencils and notebooks were to their parents. Yet in many American classrooms and homes, these high-tech tools are severely limited or forbidden. Teachers and parents wonder: What are students doing with these technologies? Originially aired on Feb. 13, 2011. Check the website for local listings.

Amy Burns gives her professional opinion on whether or not children in the younger grades benefit from using technology in the music room. Her opinion is yes and she bases it on her experiences using MENC standards and the keyboard lab with Soundtree technology installed in a lab at her Far Hills Country Day School.The article was written for professional general music teachers.She learned along with her students which gave them something in common. She concluded that using technology, especially composition, excited them and made them sucessful. There were accompanying links on the page which added to her conclusions.