At the 2006 ATMI (Association for Technology in Music Instruction) conference, Dr. Jay Dorfman and Dr. Marc Jacoby featured some of my middle school students’ compositions and wiki entries from our Cranbrook Composers website as part of a panel discussion entitled: Loop-based Software: Philosophy and Practice.
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The MENC Creativity Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) just launched their new website: http://www.musicalcreativity.com. This website is a great resource for teachers and researchers who are interested in issues related to musical creativity and resources for the classroom.
The first featured newsletter is written by Dr. Susan Mills from Appalachian State University. Be sure to check out her ideas for arranging and composing in the classroom
I currently serve as Web Editor for MusicalCreativity.com. So, if you have any feedback or suggestions for content, please feel free to email me and let us know. Also, if you have something to contribute, please email our Creativity SRIG Chair Michele Kaschub.
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Welcome 2007 IMEA visitors!
Click the following links to go to the sites for my IMEA Presentations:
Podcasts, Blogs, & Wiki’s…Oh My!
Engaging Technology-infused Composing Experiences for the General Music Classroom
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Ok, ok… I’ve made it my new years resolution to keep this blog current. I survived my first semester as Assistant Professor of Music Education at Indiana State University. Now, I can put more energy into this blog.
Stay tuned….
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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.
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