Digital Audio Project #3: Composing & Creating
Nearly every educational theorist lists creativity as one of the most valuable kinds of learning experiences that students experience. In Benjamin Bloom’s pyramid of higher order thinking skills, creativity remains at the top. Likewise, Bruner, Dewey, & Vygotsky dedicated significant portions of their life’s work towards exploring and teaching creativity. The projects within this module build upon previous skills with…
Digital Audio Project #2: Transforming A Song
The majority of students who want to work with digital audio workstations are interested in creating their own music. This may come in the form of recreating their favorite song or composing their own original music. This project scaffolds students through higher order thinking skills of analysis, evaluation, & creation within Bloom’s Taxonomy by transforming…
Digital Audio Project #1: Record & Edit
What it means to be a music educator has transformed considerably in the last few decades. The traditional mold of a music teacher being either a band director, choir director, orchestra director, or general music teacher is becoming less frequent with each passing year. Many teachers find themselves teaching courses outside of their specialty, including…
Administrative Project #3: Create a mail merge
Once you have a firm grasp on how to collect and organize information, you should be ready to transform it. One of those ways is through a mail merge. Creating a mail merge is relatively simple, and can save a ton of time on a variety of administrative tasks. For example, if you would like…
Administrative Project #2: Track your expenses
Most teachers spend some of their own personal funds on their classroom. Music teachers are no exception. We have classroom supplies we need to buy, conferences we need to attend, and workshops to learn new skills, not to mention the money we spend on instruments, music, and equipment. So, keeping a detailed list of expenses…
Administrative Project #1: Clean your data
The ability to keep and maintain good records is an essential skill for many music educators. It is also one that is rarely covered in any kind of music teacher curriculum. There are simply too many other things to cover and skills in how to keep and manage records doesn’t usually fit neatly into a…
Notation Project #3: Composing & Creating
Nearly every educational theorist lists creativity as one of the most valuable kinds of learning experiences that students experience. In Benjamin Bloom’s pyramid of higher order thinking skills, creativity remains at the top. Likewise, Bruner, Dewey, & Vygotsky dedicated significant portions of their life’s work towards exploring and teaching creativity. The projects within this module…
Notation Project #2: Transform a Score
The second notation project scaffolds students through higher order thinking skills of analysis, evaluation, & creation within Bloom’s Taxonomy by transforming an existing piece of music from one setting to another. The primary objective for this assignment is to foster fluency in part formatting, score formatting, and exporting with music notation software. The secondary objective…
Notation Project #1: Recreate a Score
One of the best ways to learn music notation is to recreate a piece of music. In order to do so, you need to grasp all of the fundamentals of document set-up, and note entry, in addition to the basics of part and page formatting. The primary objective for this assignment is to foster fluency…
Problem-based learning in the music technology classroom
Innovations in technology have generated both challenges and opportunities for music instrumental educators. Twenty-first century learners have the opportunity to learn, share, edit, and create in a multitude of ways and at a rate faster than ever in history, through seemingly ubiquitous mobile devices. One of the many challenges of teachers of preservice music educators…
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