Reflection (week 10) - Screencasting

Among the lessons that I have planned for my students is presenting the cultures of different countries in Latin America and that includes the music of various artists from these countries. This time I will use a resource where you can create a playlist for this lesson, the program is Spotify.

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs online. Music can be searched by artist, album, genre, playlist or record label, as well as by direct searches. Users can create and share playlists, or edit them with other users. Many Web sites support sharing playlists and Spotify songs and allow users to share, rate and discuss.

Through this video, I’ll show how to create a playlist looking for artists from a specific country, in this case Colombia and adding their songs to our playlist. The steps are:

1 - Create the playlist with the name of Colombian music.

2 - On the search bar, write the names of the artists that we will use in this case Juanes, Carlos Vives and Shakira.

3 - Once we find the artists we select the song we are interested in and use the right mouse click to add this song to our playlist.

4 - When have all the songs that would help us to present the artists, we play the playlist that will be ready for use!

I think this tool is very good because it allows students to be actively involved in school activities and be the protagonists of their own learning as they learn how to manage technology for the benefit of his knowledge.