The BR as a teaching tool

[visiblemember]

Here's the rest of the story. I'm an English teacher in Vienna, Austria at 11 different elementary schools. I play some games, teach some simple English, teach some songs, Bingo, old mcdonald, etc...BORING!!! Once in a while I'd rifle out a minute or so of some Tom Petty and such. The kids would go nuts! One of my work mates wrote a chant and we did that for a few months. it was cool. Then i finally finished it off and came up with "The Nessie Friendship Song"
Monday I give the lyric sheet to the kids and play the song on my guitar. Tuesday I bring in a CD with my full rock version and a kareoke version. The kids can listen, sing along. Wednesday I come in with the Micro BR and a guitar. I play the song through the headphones and play along with the guitar and mouth the words so the kids can keep pace and tempo. The fourth track on the BR is free. I record the kids singing, take it home, mix the kids with the master, burn a CD and bring it back on Thursday. Viola! They are rock stars!

[Kody]

Ahhh, this is great!! I'm going to be a music teacher and I have already been dreaming about doing this!!  Very cool......especially for an English teacher lol!!
What grade level are these kids? You've gotta love what this little box can do!!  Cool post!!

[Satchwood]

How cool!!  There's just something about hearing kids singing that's very heart warming!  Nice guitar work and the kids singing sounds terrific!  How very special it must be to part of their lives and while doing something you love with your music.

[Ferryman]

Just great!! Fantastic idea, hope the kids liked it. And the song is quite fun as well - I like the chord changes on it.

Cheers,

Nigel

[launched]

With the karaoke version - you put up a screen with the translated version, too? Or just English? I think this would be a great way to teach adults, too - maybe without nessie, tho' 

Later,

Mark

[Pedro]

This sounds great! And the kids are very tuned.

[Wiley]

admin. is right!! These kids are really singing in key. You have many talented children in your class.  I bet they had a blast.

[Geir]

Hey this is great !!! A great idea that worked out brilliantly!!!

G.

[OsCKilO]

You are Jack Black.......!

This is a real life "School of Rock"........!

Cool!

[The Reverend 48]

You are Jack Black.......!
This is a real life "School of Rock"........!
Cool!

Seriously the kids make this just magical!
I think they'd benifit from an English lesson based on the "Wall"