Alex Ruthmann’s Blog

This July, I will be teaching a week-long summer course at Central Connecticut State University entitled Podcasts, Blogs, & Wiki’s… Oh My! This summer’s course will focus on using Web 2.0 tools and Ning social networks to extend and support K-College music classes. These tools provide an easy and collaborative way to get your music program online, to create online communities of practice, and to support student assessment.

Come on out to beautiful New Britain, Connecticut. Tuition, including 2 graduate credits, is only $500!

Here’s the official blurb:

Podcasts, Wikis & Blogs—Oh My!
In this hands-on class music teachers will develop strategies to support and extend student learning with online collaborative tools such as social networks, blogs, podcasts, and wikis. These tools provide easy ways to get your music classes online integrating text, video, and audio. Strategies for using these tools to facilitate assessment, writing across the curriculum, and reflective journaling, as well as to support performing, rehearsing, practicing, and composing will be explored. Applications of these tools in settings from elementary through college will be shared and developed. Prerequisite: None. Examples of tools for both Macs and PCs will be shared. Targeted for elementary, middle, high school and college levels, general music or ensembles.

50096 MUS 536, Sec 04, 2 credits, $500
July 7-11, 1:15–5:45 pm & Thurs 7-9:30 pm

More information and registration available at http://www.ccsusmi.com/

INDIANA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION, JANUARY 16-19, 2008

This multimedia project was created by Northwest High School Multimedia Artists

• Sarah Beaty
• Chet Patterson
• Jeremy Pierson
• Tiarress Stokes

Under the expert supervision of Jacquie Dennis, Director of Choral Music at NWHS, with assistance from Kenneth Sallaz, ISU Music Business Major.

IMEA Technology Chair/Indiana State University:

• Dr. Alex Ruthmann

Butler University:

• Dr. Tim Brimmer, Andrew Cunningham

Special Thanks to Apple, Inc:

• Joseph Lee & Dick Hamstra

This project was created, edited and produced with four MacBooks using Apple’s iMovie, published on the internet using Apple’s iWeb.

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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/

Go to http://ccsusmiwiki.pbwiki.com for our class syllabus and webpage.