RMS General Music Class Holds First Live Web Chat with VA Students

On Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, RMS 8th grade General Music students participated in their first live classroom exchange via Google Video Chat. The exchange was between our students here in Memphis and elementary string students in Fairfax, Virginia.

I met string teacher Maggie Lubinski at MENC's Music Education Week in Washington DC last June and invited her to participate in a live classroom exchange using an online application such as Skype or Google Video Chat. We tested the Google video chat technology in October - without students in our classrooms - to make sure we could see and hear each other clearly. The connection was better than expected, so we went ahead with our plans for a November classroom exchange.

The video below highlight the November 10th exchange. A second exchange with Ms. Lubinski's studnets took place on Thursday, November 12th, and will be featured in our next blog post.

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