Amy M. Burns

Elementary Music Technology and Integration

Amy M. Burns has taught PreK-grade 4 general music for over 25 years at Far Hills Country Day School (FH) (https://www.fhcds.org/). She also teaches grade 5 instrument class, directs the FH Philharmonic, is the Performing Arts Department Manager, and teaches privately in the after-school conservatory after being the director for over 20 years. She has authored four books and numerous articles on how to integrate tech into the elementary music classroom. She has presented many sessions on the topic, including four keynote addresses in TX, IN, St. Maarten, and AU. She is the recipient of the 2005 Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Teacher of the Year, the 2016 New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Master Music Teacher, the 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Awards. Her most recent publication, Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches (2020), published by Oxford University Press (OUP) is available from OUP and Amazon. Burns is also the Community Coordinator for Midnight Music (MMC) at https://midnightmusic.com/, the General Music Chair for NJMEA Board of Directors, and the Elementary Music Consultant for MusicFirst (https://www.musicfirst.com/), a company built by music educators for music educators, dedicated to helping music teachers and their students make the most of technology in the classroom.

Two Tech Tips: Mirror a Video

February 12, 2023  /  Amy M. Burns

As I was at the TMEA/TI:ME Conference this week, I learned two great ways to mirror a YouTube video. This is helpful for any movement videos or choreography videos where you need to mirror the teacher on the screen and they are using the terms left and right.

mirrorthevideo.com

Mirrorthevideo.com is very intuitive to use.

  1. Go to the YouTube video you would like to mirror.

  2. Replace youtube.com in that URL with mirrorthevideo.com

  3. Voila!

  4. Tip: I have discovered that this works on devices such as laptops or chromebooks. It does not work on a tablet or a phone’s YouTube app or the web browsers found on them. Please let me know if you discovered something different along those lines.

Clipchamp

Doing it this way allows you to save the video and export it to a Google Drive, or as an unlisted YouTube link for you to use and cue up in class. To do this:

  1. Use the method that you would use to download the YouTube video that needs to be mirrored.

  2. Set up a free account or use a Google login to create your free account in Clipchamp. (There is now an app too!)

  3. Click “Create a new Video”

  4. Drag the YouTube video into Clipchamp and it will automatically move into your media folder.

  5. Click on the green + to add the video to the timeline.

  6. Now click on the clip in the timeline so it is highlighted you will see a menu appear next to the clip on the screen.

  7. Click flip horizontally and the video is now mirrored.

  8. Click the export to save it to your hard drive, share it to your google drive, upload it as an unlisted video on YouTube, or many more social media options.

Two great tools to help with mirroring a movement video!

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