www.educationmusictech.wikispaces.com
create own wiki page – here is my link to what i did
http://educationmusictech.wikispaces.com/Smartboards
now dare i say i don’t own anything apple besides my ipod which i have to add is quite an outdated version compared to to recent times! haha it still works and is compatible so it’s not that far outdated.
i did feel quite out of place as i don’t own anything Mac, however! i did find a station that was relevant to me and my teaching KLA. It was about creating a platform online or computer based that represented a ‘land’. On this land apple had created the school outline, and stations on the school ground where students could learn doing different online activities. This particluar platform was for Visual Arts, and students were to create their work online based on a space within the school grounds, so they could ‘virtually’ see their work in the space. It bought on skills on making and understanding 3 d shapes also using the technology of the computer software. A chat group was in place for the teachers to interact with students as well. This version was not fully developed yet, it still had technical glitches to work out, but the prototype is a great beginning for bringing in the use of technology to art and music subjects in school. Audio had not been put in the software yet, along with other features. One feature was, you can build a ‘wall’ and on that wall surface you can create a web page – linked to a specific site.
Wiki – connected pages – what is a wiki – demographic source of info.. or is it? – any one can edit the info – although it can be private or public – can produce educational value
RSS feeds - summarises a site for general idea – can find rss feeds to copy link – subscribe to google reader – subscribe to the rss deef – automatic upload of all rss feeds – if there is no rss feed it will create one.
Google – “skynet” (in google font)- terminator system ‘running the system’ – a joke.. get it.. i didn’t.. they had to explain it to me the nerds…
Google does – real time documents - many people can watch at the same time – good for collaboration (there are other sites that provide the same things too)
Auralia (for pc and mac) (approx $200 but could have more licence prices)
-Aural Skills
-Musicianship Skills
-Can control the level of teach/info of each students – working at individual levels..|
-Can use for Gifted and Talented students
Musician
Everyday Looper - ipod looper application – pretty cool
Check out my Website for a Program Unit on JAZZ music and arrangement for Moondance
Self notes
Blog – website found in literacies wwnorton.com
Ning
Google – create a free website
Download resources from James Website
Itunes u – get it through itunes program – go to store)
Assignment – main three things to help you pass
-Arrangement of key parts
-How students learn by reflecting on themselves through technology – of learning the performance they’ve been given and recording themselves (expectations of students – reflective learning). Assume that students have knowledge of how to use, e.g. powerpoint, blog etc – ways of how they are reflecting. e.g record by the end of the lesson, upload the recording and then reflect on the performance etc have students do a straight out podcast/video, video of progress, talk into computer – use their technology they have uploading their experiences – using ipod/iphone etc
-Delivering it…about pacing the unit – how many weeks over a period of time – good pacing and delivery to the students
Apple Conference on the 12th
ITSC – Google it
Teachers using technology in cool ways
Teacher do presentations about stuff e.g my music space yr10 and 11 – James, online learning, etc
Challenge based learning
Ali.apple.com/cbl
Idea of needing to really rethink education for example – post industrial education system needs to be changed for the real future
Engagement with students in what they are doing and want to learn
Apple research for essential based learning – little video
Big Idea – Essential Q’s (that are relevant – have meaning and solutions)– then refine a focus them down to one = challenge (a focus) – research – come up with attainable solutions – go in with plan in a local place – take debate to crowd, not the crowd to you
It didn’t mention the teacher at all – it was all student based… Teacher could help:
-Big Idea
-Guiding students with questions, activities, resources: web and itunes U.
-Publishing students samples/observations
(mainly student based learning – but how teacher interacts and with instructions and how student responds to the structure and instructions of the essential based learning framework)
Then base use it as a framework for music challenges
Project (Yr 11) eg. Musicals – as big idea, then, how it had changed and evolved over the different productions/time – and presented it how they wanted e.g. power point, website, presentations, folios etc
Build projects with mini skilled based tasks, then bringing it together in the big project
Media……
Video as a way of delivering to students… e.g. Screenflow
(Can use this for assignments)
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O’Generator
Like a step sequencing program
Roland drum class…
Learning how to play the drums through an electric kit
We had the opportunity to play electric drum kits, and also interact with settings and volumes. There was a software program that goes with the drum kits where one can interact with the software and the drum kit. There are 2 different ways of viewing notation to play along with songs, one is purely visual with blocks moving vertically down the page, as they fall, it indicates when to play which drum. They other way of viewing the music is purely through notation. The first way is very much like the games of Guitar Hero or Rock Band – so many students will already be familiar with the concept.
Talked about the idea of keyboard labs and how outdated and a waste of space they are. Now keyboards are much more valuable and interactive when they are teamed with a computer. However kids do interact well with guitars and other band instruments. The software and hardware Roland was promoting, can be used with Drums, keyboard, guitar, bass and microphone. It can be used where everyone in the band has headphones on and can be tuned in to listen to only those students who are “in the band” – who are plugged in to their ‘jam hub’. Essentially you could have 3 rock bands practicing in the same room, with an English class in the next room and not be interruptive to anyone else.
I did have a try to play the drums, it was great fun – the sensation is quite different from playing a normal drum kit, though some of the drums have different sounds if you hit them differently. They are volume sensitive, and the cymbals have 3 different sounds depending on where you hit them. I could not however, do a rim shot; the snare drum had a different surface/skin to the other drums with a different feel when I hit it. I also tried singing along whilst playing, which proved rather difficult, I could hit the drum on the beat, or a beat, but keeping the individual rhythms across the kit constant was what I struggled with. My co-ordination started to play up, I kept hitting my sticks together, and playing the wrong drum on the wrong beat, and missing beats. Someone also commented that I was singing really loud – I think this was due to the fact that I had headphones on and I couldn’t hear myself through the headphones.
Notes to self:
-music tute – interesting blog on http://nicklane.edublogs.org/
-use my blogs to explore things that interest me and provide opinions and tweet it out and find people to comment on my blog.. etc etc…
-Try screenflow application
-twitter
-ning
-blog
-PLN = personal learning network
-Google scholar
-Books vs. Online – libraries have extended borrowing time to encourage people to read more, becuase no-one reads many books anymore – lots of books have actually gone online. Not as many books being published as many writers to more online things – introduction to blogging and articles – different stlyes of writing.. Ideas of different learning styles due to different reading sources i.e internet – ideas of benefits of the action of reading a books, i.e. skim reading, the action of researching and fidning books in libraries – catalogueing etc.
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Sibelius – a good tool, it has loops and good resources
www.sibelius.com/training
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mostly in regards to our assignment
listened to James arrangement of a school choir, which included layering vocal parts. – interesting concept
(next week we hang out with guys from roland and jam with some kits – should be extremely fun!!)
special needs kids stuff
Looking at technology and how to incorporate it to teach young students e.g banana keyboard
2nd assignment generally looks at catering for a disabled child (e.g asberger/ADD) and a gifted child in the same class.
you need to talk about prior learning and context
how to change the lesson to accomodate the special/gifted kids – without writing another unit of work or more work
explain in week to week delivery of what to do a with the individual students in the class (and not just busy work for gifted students
Technology
-Jellybean switch
-light beam – change pitch, responds to movement
-computer linked software/programs to banana keyboard
e.g banana keyboard – (through sound house music alliance-they also promote the use of technology and music, also from a professional point of view)
-can be used for little children and disabled kids – it’s style makes it more accessible than a regular keyboard
-it can link with garage band
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findsounds.com – search engine – different sound formats – can then upload to garage band
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Banana keyboard and garage band activities enables participation in all parts of the lesson – performance, listening and composition
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Example of disabled kids…
Autistic/down syndrome – brain based learning difficulities
-In music technology – he would lie in corner of classroom on the floor, also hadn’t spokken since primary scool, also had violent outbursts and fits – against the world.
-One day a teacher introduced to the class a video editing documentry software – the kid seemed interested and was taught a few basic features. No one knew if he had learnt anything in class, but he ended up using the program and documented his whole life story since he stopped communicating to everyone – now people could see what was going on in his life. Over time, he began to communicate verbally and with the program expressed himself and make more documentries. He now comes back to his school as a tutor to help other disabled kids make music videos, which turned into an annual film project.
In regards to disabled children – you need to speak straight forward and give step by step instruction s- you cannt use metaphors as they take everything you say extremely literal and have a fabulous linear memory.
ADD/ADHD
Two views – Ken Robinson vs. James
Ken – He comments that it is a common trend and routine now in medical fashion to consider ADD as a form of disease, an ‘epidemic’ that needs to be treated with medication. However, children in todays society are so exposed, over stimualted, interactive by informance, that they now seem to be understimulated in teh classroom. They shoudl not be ‘treated’ and pumped with medication to balance them out.
James – Kids are bombarded by stimulous with increased level of interatcion, communication and multisoenory at the same time and we expect them to sit in boring lessons. A child was diagnosed as having ADHD, not attending class, drinking, doing graffiti at the age of 14. Its a chemical imbalance in the brain that is different to a normal person, whci makes it 10% harder to concentrate on one thing at a time. It shoudl not be seen as a disability but a ‘concenetration’ operation difference – where one can do a couple of things at the same time.
Other students comments
-Its about impulsivity – when doing one thing, and then another thing comes up – they move on – not necesarily an attention span issue
-Goals – they want instant satisfation – cannot work towards a goal
-exmaple – give a child a goal, answer 10 questions and then get 10 lollies, an ADD student would answer 2 and then get distracted and move one and forget about the goal. you need to tell them to ansswer one question – then get a lolly, answer another question and get a lolly etc.
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Integrating disabled kids in mainstream classes
a lot don’t participate/communicate in the schools in everything – as they only participate in some subjects.
The work they do is generally project based tasks for disabled kids
You’ll need to modify the curriculum to include them, and also define the type of disabillity.
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‘Meet the Music’ – phil jamison (extra special/smart kids)
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Children that are extremely smart….
-Example -
-learning difficulties – in language
-Almost like a musical genius – plays piano and violin – could automatically compose without being taught techniques – he does this mainly through listening to his favourite composers/musicians – dubussy and chopin – he chooses to compose in this style even though he has been exposed to a variety of music styles
-very disabled – but has one amazign talent – but not disabled enough to be considered savant.
-things he needs to work towards are extending his harmonic movement and isntrumentation.
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tangent – people in the IT professsion, a lot of them are alogn the autistic spectrum
-They have a single interest – and focus on the one skill – they are not freak geniuss in everything.
When writing parts – you can do so in concert pitch but make sure all the parts when printed are NOT all in concert pitch
