Week #5: Responding to Music with Technology
Technology is a widely-used medium which drives our society more and more each day. We as teachers can greatly benefit through learning new teaching strategies with technology, but we also use technology everyday for pleasure which can aid in the learning of our students.
Spotify is a great resource for quality recordings, and the library is the most expansive I have seen of the online streaming services. I usually like to share reference recordings with my students to help them understand the music better and to hear the best possible example of it. Spotify playlists are a great way to share these recordings, and this is a medium which students are already using!
In keeping with using technology to aid in student learning, this week I discovered and reviewed a GREAT music theory software which students can use interactively to learn about theory. My students will love this! There are many prescribed content syllabi already created, but I as the teacher can customize my own curriculum and make my own lessons, activities, and assessments! The best part is that students can learn at their own pace and can get immediate results and feedback. This program is called Musition!
In continuing to search for more and more music technology resources, I used a Chrome extension called Diigo which lets you highlight and annotate actual web pages and save them to a cloud for later reference. So cool!
Spotify is a great resource for quality recordings, and the library is the most expansive I have seen of the online streaming services. I usually like to share reference recordings with my students to help them understand the music better and to hear the best possible example of it. Spotify playlists are a great way to share these recordings, and this is a medium which students are already using!
In keeping with using technology to aid in student learning, this week I discovered and reviewed a GREAT music theory software which students can use interactively to learn about theory. My students will love this! There are many prescribed content syllabi already created, but I as the teacher can customize my own curriculum and make my own lessons, activities, and assessments! The best part is that students can learn at their own pace and can get immediate results and feedback. This program is called Musition!
In continuing to search for more and more music technology resources, I used a Chrome extension called Diigo which lets you highlight and annotate actual web pages and save them to a cloud for later reference. So cool!
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