1st
August
2006
UK researcher Lucy Green has been conducting research over the past years that looks into how popular musicians learn. The Musical Futures Project has created a curriculum for students in the UK based around informal learning processes. The interactive website dBass.org is a support website for the project enabling students 11-19 to be a part of a supportive online social community dedicated to sharing their original music. I will be piloting this curriculum and the dBass.org site with students in Indiana this fall. Keep posted to the blog to see how things are going.
In the meantime, check out the wonderful curriculum materials and resources for teachers here.
You can also purchase Lucy Green’s book How Popular Musicians Learn.
posted in Curriculum Ideas, Pedagogical Ideas |
26th
July
2006
Phew… Travelling half way around the globe to Malaysia was a blast, but now I’m pretty exhausted. If any of you have the chance to attend an ISME conference, do it. Such a great time and so many great workshops and sessions.
Of course, I found out about some more cool tools for the classrooom to share with you:
1. Sound Junction (www.soundjunction.org). This is a very cool interactive music learning, creating, and sharing website created in the UK. You and your students can sign up for free, explore musical styles and genres, and compose and share music.
2. YackPack (www.yackpack.com). This website allows you to create a virtual friend network online and communicate via voice messages. One of the limitations of blogging that my students talked about was that the communication was only text-based. They wanted audio and video-based communication. Well, now with the Web 2.0 it is possible.
My trip to ISME also led to a number of exciting things to come in the next year. Be on the lookout for a new book called Embedding music technology in secondary schools edited by John Finney and Pam Burnard from Continuum Press. I have been invited to write a chapter on using collaborative online tools like blogs, podcasts, and wikis in secondary music classes for this book. Look for it in Spring 2007.
posted in Announcements |
14th
July
2006
Well, it’s been a long, yet fun week here in New Britain, CT. We shared some great final projects last night ,and today will be spent tying up loose ends and testing out some of the ideas learned through sharing and discussing everyone’s blogs.
Links to blogs created in class:
http://ccsu06.blogspot.com/
http://amsband.blogspot.com/
http://rhs-instr.blogspot.com/
http://mrpalinsblog.blogspot.com/
posted in Workshops and Teaching, Announcements |
12th
July
2006
To upload video:
To upload audio or to Podcast:
To create a simple blog:
To create an enhanced blog:
To create a wiki:
To record and edit audio and music:
To organize music and burn CDs:
To discover music by musical structure:
posted in Resources for Teaching |
11th
July
2006
I was recently asked to contribute a short article for Glencoe/McGraw Hill’s back to school newsletter to teachers. Click here to take a look!
posted in Pedagogical Ideas, Articles |
