Using MySpace educationally

The whole idea of using technology to help students in the classroom is the main focus in my technology class. So, I thought I would add a little story about how I helped some of my students in the Denver City-Wide Marching Band last year. I had four students in the pit, none of which could read music very well. Every rehearsal we had was spent with me playing their parts with them and basically teaching them by rote. They had all become my friends on my music MySpace page, so I took the music I had written in Finale, took each part out, turned it into an mp3 file, and added it to the page along with a file/song of the entire percussion section's parts. Yes, I could have burned them CD's and given them to them a week later at the next rehearsal I would be at, but letting them have access to them that night after I added it, made it so much easier for them to work on their parts during the week. They definitely showed improvement, and I did that with the rest of the pieces in their marching band show.