a resource worth sharing...

When I was searching for my digital tool to present to the class, I found a lot of really great resources that I will probably use as a teacher.  I found my personal favorite which I will present to the class, but there was another tool that i also thought was terrific, and I had a hard time deciding between the two on which to use.  Since this week is a free blog, it's your lucky day because I am going to share it with you!
My second favorite resource was called VUVOX.  This tool is really great.  It enables the teacher to create a "music video" presentation.  What high school student doesn't love music? Well, maybe I'm a little biased as a music lover myself. Of course, you're potentially going to run into problems with the student's different taste in music, and their criticism of the video becuase of this.  At any rate, I think it would be fun to create them and hopefully maintain student's attention a little longer as most students are used to their senses being bombarded as a way of recieving information.  I don't think that a typical auditory lecture would compare to the use of a music video to convey information to your students. 
I don't necessarily think that all of your presentations should be like this, but I do think that it is a useful tool in presenting new information.  I also thought that it would be a neat idea to have this up and running as students came into the classroom as a source of visual and auditory stimulation to deter the students getting too caught up in their own conversations during the class change.  In this way, you aren't necessarily wasting the time students have in between classes, but are providing them with a review of information during what would have been useless time otherwise.
Finally, I think that a teacher could use this resource so that the students could create their own music videos to demonstrate their knowledge of information that they learned.  Creating an account on vuvox is free, and it is pretty easy to use, so I think that the students would have fun doing a project like this- and they would be able to use their own taste in music (within reason...it would have to be appropriate) negating the issue of students having different tastes in music.
www.vuvox.com