The latest from the Music Technology Teacher Network pros.
In this article, I outline three potential music tech labs and the estimated expense for each one. While having the resources and funds available to outfit a “deluxe” package lab is wonderful, you do not have to have all of those bells and whistles to provide a legitimate music technology experience for students. For me the key is to create a spark to ignite the creative nature inherent in young students. Once that creativity is unleashed, they will discover ways to express it!
Read MoreWhat I saw from the students next was really remarkable. They were really listening to the speeches--unlike hearing them in a social studies class, as some of the students had already mentioned. They were listening for words that meant something to them! They were looking for ownership! They were also trying to see what styles and emotions their musical additions could bring to their selected speech samples.
Read MoreHow many teachers of the fine arts devote significant time to the production of artwork? I don’t mean how many of us play regularly enough to keep our chops up or even how many of us maintain a gig schedule. I’m talking about creating art and sharing it with an audience.
Read MoreWe trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Read MoreWe can't measure the quality of learning and teaching with a test anymore than a coroner can judge the quality of a life by examining the corpse. There is a record of the day my students started their class with me. Its called the pretest. And there's a record of one of the last days that they spent with me called the post-test. And there is so little relevance in either of those numbers. What's really important is what happened to that student in between.
Read MoreProject Suggestions for Language Art:
Are you ready to branch out from your stale sounds found inside your DAWs? Do you want to be free to create your own patches to make your compositions pop. Do you have a limited budget for plugins and hardware instruments? Do you want to learn about simple sound synthesis? Or do you just want to mess around with some free online music gadgets that may open up your mind to further explorations down the road. Then, look no further than this small list I’ve compiled for you folks at MuTechTeacherNet.com.
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Use your Audio/Midi Setup to create a multi-output device on your Mac computer to use Soundflower to record from your web browser directly into your DAW.
Read MoreA great video from the folks at the Young Composers & Improvisors Workshop on how to use aQWERTYon from musedlab.org to record directly into Noteflight to create traditional notation from a recorded performance.
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