Comments for music and technology

Comment on Thing 17:Podcasts by jordanwhite15

jordanwhite15 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:51:41 +0000

All,
I am just getting into connecting education and technology and I was wondering if any of you had any tips for getting started. I want to incorporate it first with my honors classes and work out all the kinks, then have my entire section podcasting about historical figures. What would be 3 essentials to help my classes make the transition pretty smoothly?

Comment on Thing 23,000 by Maks

Maks — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:09:36 +0000

Как Вам удается писать без ошибок в орфографии?

Comment on Thing 21: Pageflakes by Bookmarks about Pageflakes

Bookmarks about Pageflakes — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:10 +0000

[...] – bookmarked by 2 members originally found by Kikyousinger102 on 2009-02-12 Thing 21: Pageflakes http://mirandad.edublogs.org/2008/05/01/thing-21-pageflakes/ – bookmarked by 2 members originally [...]

Comment on Thing 11: slide show by kristipi

kristipi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:56:55 +0000

I love the slideshow (and I know that the recipient will love it too!) I can’t wait to hear it with the kids voices. Did you come up with this idea as a result of this course, or did youalready have this in mind?

Kristi

Comment on Thing 15: Librarything by arenglert

arenglert — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:51:04 +0000

I loved this, too! I have wondered about using this in my elementary music classroom. The only thing I could come up with was to make a list of books about music instruments or composers that my students might enjoy reading. I haven’t searched yet, but when I have time I will.

Comment on Thing 7 Wikis by arenglert

arenglert — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:37:48 +0000

I like your ideas and information. Do you teach sight-reading in your classes? Perhaps you could have some rhythms posted on a wiki and the students practice the rhythms individually and record their “performance of the rhythms” on the wiki. They could also do this in groups where they create a 4-measure “rhythm composition” and perform it using different instruments for each note value as a group. The performance would be recorded so that students in the future could learn aurally the difference in note values by looking at the notes and hearing different sounds for each note value. I think the students would love the fact that they are on a “recording”.

Comment on Thing 11: slide show by arenglert

arenglert — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:32:31 +0000

Good idea about the slide show featuring your students singing! Have you tried saving the music to microsoft media player or real player, and then downloading the music from there? I don’t know how to do it, either, but I just thought of that. If you figure it out, please let me know. I would love to “steal” your idea and use it in my classroom in the future.

Isn’t it fun finding all of these cool new tools? The only question is “when will we have time to incorporate all of these ideas into our classrooms?”

Comment on Thing 7 Wikis by Shelley Paul

Shelley Paul — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:18:42 +0000

Hooray! I love your post — it’s selfish, maybe, but you did EXACTLY what I had hoped participants would do for this “thing….” you explored these different wikis and noticed possibilities… the possibilities are pretty unlimited, really… I bet there are lots of ways to support music learning…. hmmm… do you ever study orchestra families, instruments or different genres of music? composers? I could see students researching different parts/components and building a resource wiki….

Comment on Thing 4: reflections on blogs by Allison

Allison — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:11:03 +0000

I was intrigued by the blog you mentioned about assigning or not assigning homework. I, too, teach elementary music. Can you imagine not giving practice/homework to a student taking lessons on an instrument?

I agree with one of the folks that responded to the original blog – Jonathan – who thinks homework is good practice, if for no other reason, for the repetition and quick recall of facts. I know students who struggle with math facts because they don’t practice them at home regularly. I agree with teachers giving homework assignments. I don’t think the students need hours of it, but just enough for the teacher to be able to tell if the students really understand the concepts they were supposed to practice outside of class.

I know homework was something I needed when I was a high school student because I didn’t grasp everything from a class lecture in school. I had to practice it on my own and troubleshoot when I ran into difficulties. The process of doing homework also prepared me for college. Since I had developed such good study habits in high school, I had not problems in college with any of my classes. I’m glad my teachers made us do homework.

Thanks for commenting on that blog. I want to go back and read more responses when I have some time.

Comment on Thing 1: Lifelong learning habits by Kathryn Bailey

Kathryn Bailey — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:40:52 +0000

Miranda: One of the things that you model for your students is life long learning. You were an early adopter of using the iPod in the music classroom. Not only did you see the value as the iPod as a teaching tool but you were also taking something that students were familiar with and adapting it to learning. Teachers that are willing to learn and change are great role models for students.