Technology for Music Teachers

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Technology for Music Teachers

• Course Dates
• Monday through Saturday, July 19-24 800 am-500
  pm

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Contacts

• Amy M. Burns, Adjunct Faculty
• Email awillis2_at_aol.com
• Website www.amymburns.com
• Blog www.amymburns.musiced.net
• Cell Phone [phone]
• Course website http//wpumusictech.wikispaces.com
  
• Course Blog http//wpumusictech.wordpress.com/

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Evaluation Assessment Criteria

• -Attendance at all class sessions is expected.
  Any absences need to be approved by the Dean of
  the Music School.
• -Responses to the ten discussion questions 2
  points each 10 points 
• -Projects 1, 2, 4, 5 15 points each 60
  points 
• -Project 3 30 points
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• Total 100 points

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TIME

• http//www.ti-me.org

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Day 1

• Technology in the Music Classroom

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Popular reasons for not using technology in the
grades K-8

• I do not have enough time to learn all of the
  software out there
• It will replace a part of my music curriculum
• My students are too young to use technology
• I only have one computerHow could I possibly
  incorporate music technology into my elementary
  music classroom?

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Technology should enhance your music
curriculum!New technologies hold the key to
improved music learning. If a teacher places the
tools of technology into the students hands, it
will guide them to active music making (Rudolph,
Richmond, Mash, Williams, 1997, p. 1)

• Pick your favorite unit and add a technological
  component
• Do not build a unit around music technology
• Instead
• Find one way to incorporate music technology into
  your favorite musical unit

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Benefits for adding technology to your K-8 Music
Classroom

• Enhance your musical units

• Reinforce musical
• skills that are
• being taught in the
• lesson

• Excellent assessment tool

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Accomplish The National Association for Music
Educations National Standards for Music
Education (MENC) (retrieved on August 1, 2008,
from http//www.menc.org/resources/view/national-
standards-for-music-education)
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music. 2. Performing on
instruments, alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music. 3. Improvising melodies,
variations, and accompaniments. 4. Composing and
arranging music within specified guidelines. 5.
Reading and notating music. 6. Listening to,
analyzing, and describing music. 7. Evaluating
music and music performances. 8. Understanding
relationships between music, the other arts,
and disciplines outside the arts. 9.
Understanding music in relation to history and
culture.
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Most Importantly

• Your students will enjoy the technology
  activities that you incorporate into your music
  lessons!

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Music Technology in the Classroom

• CDs, CD players, DVDs,
• Computers
• Electronic keyboards
• Websites
• Software
• Internet
• Podcasts
• Wikispaces
• Blogs
• Guitar Hero or Wii Music

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Music Technology in the Classroom

• Crayons of Music Education
• Yamaha Research
• Long and short term music achievement, as
  evidenced in standardized tests, is significantly
  increased when compared to existing approaches of
  classroom music.
• Students who received hands-on instruction had
  greater comprehension of musical concepts
  compared with students taught with traditional
  approaches and methods.
• Music instructions provided through a technology
  assisted program contributes to a sense of
  professional development and personal growth on
  the part of the music educators.
• Additional outcomes of the study showed that
  technology improved student concentration,
  maximized time on-task, developed and enhanced
  cooperative learning, and fostered higher level
  thinking skills.

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4. Composing and arranging music within specified
guidelines.

• Research with 2nd grade general music class
• The EX2 showed the most statistical significant
  difference with a 48.7 increase in correct
  answers. EX116.7 and CG46 increase in correct
  answers.
• Music Ace and Finale NotePad

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Music Technology in the Classroom

• Dr. Peter Webster The New Handbook of Research on
  Music Teaching and Learning (2002)
• So, is music technology effective and is it
  worth the trouble? On balance and on a very basic
  level, the answer to this question is yes. Does
  music technology hold the key for solving all our
  music teaching problems? Of course not. Are there
  abuses in its use? Absolutely. Does it always
  improve learning? No, much depends on the
  context--especially the teacher and its use
  instructionally. Is it worth the trouble to keep
  studying its role in music teaching and learning?
  Unconditionally, yes.

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During this course, we will

• Explore educational Internet sites
• Explore music software
• Create a Wikispace
• Explore blogs
• Learn and create with notation software
• Learn and create with GarageBand
• Explore podcasts
• Learn and explore keyboards and software
  synthesizers
• Create CDs
• Edit audio with Audacity
• Explore the uses of the SMART Board and the
  software
• Explore classroom management
• Explore and create powerpoints for class

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The Internet in the Music Classroom

• Network
• Websites
• Email
• Message Boards
• Blogs
• Wiki
• Twitter
• Search Engines
• Webquests

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The Internet in the Music Classroom

• SFSKids
• DsoKids
• NY Phil Kidszone
• Virtual Keyboard
• Music Theory Puzzles
• Smithsonian Folkways
• Classics for Kids
• Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures

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The Internet in the Music Classroom

• Make Music Machine
• Creating Music
• Math and Music
• Music Theory .net
• Emusictheory
• Game Aquarium
• Phil Tulga
• Music Intervals
• MusicTechTeacher
• Jeopardy Games

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The Internet in the Music Classroom

• Groove Lab
• Interactive Recorder Fingering Chart
• Interactive Boomwhackers
• Science of music
• 40 ESSENTIAL SNARE DRUM RUDIMENTS
• The Music Interactive
• Google Earth
• MmmTsss
• Choral Public Domain Library
• Classical Music Archives
• Noteflight

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• The Noteflight Learning Edition will provide the
  teacher with almost everything they are looking
  for. http//www.noteflight.com/info/teach_music
• Noteflight Learning Edition is an online service
  designed for music educators. Available by
  monthly or yearly subscription, it's based on the
  Noteflight Score Editor, a full-featured notation
  tool that runs in any standard web browser.

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