Teaching Kids To Use Blogs And Photoshop Our tech-savvy 1st and 2nd graders are learning skills usually taught in college! .
This in-depth video explains the academic and social benefits of our work and tells the story of our band. This video was played prior to our performance at the College of Education at Cal State San Marcos, and their faculty wants to use it to teach future educators (!) This video features stage and classroom work, as well as interviews with parents, Professor of Education Leslie Mauerman, Speech Therapist Pamela Hahn, Principal Margie Oliver, and Teacher Jon Schwartz. .
Once we’ve used the music as a springboard to teach academic content standards, our goal is to take our work to completion by performing it onstage and recording it together in digital multitrack audio and video editing programs.
The students even learn how to operate programs like iMovie, Photoshop and Garage Band.
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So far our performances have included playing a street fair, for a large audience of staff and students at the Cal State San Marcos College of Education and on local TV news and KPBS TV (watch these performances on our videos page). We're a real band, and we're learning and rocking! We have about ten songs in our repertoire.
Click video still to watch the Kids Like Blues Band music video, "Sweet Home Chicago."
Click video still to view how our program works and details how we cover specific academic content standards.
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