Friday, October 30, 2009
Readings from week 10
Thursday, October 29, 2009
PLN 10
Thursday, October 22, 2009
PLN 9
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Cutting Students
Smartboards!
One of this week’s readings was about how to buy and use an interactive white board. In high school many of my classrooms, including the music technology class, had interactive whiteboards (smartboards). In the classroom using the smartboard was one of the most fun experiences during class. In fact, one of my teachers even made a point to let every student get up to the smart board and use it for notes once a day. In my AP Music Theory class, the smartboard not only served as a projector, but also an interactive whiteboard. Our end of the year project was to arrange a song and put it into finale 2009. Many of the students did not know how to use finale, and our teacher could show the entire class all at once by using the smart board. Also, when we presented, we could show the class what parts of the song were most difficult to arrange, what were are favorites, ect. We could also watch the score as we were listening to the piece. Overall, the smartboard was one of the best resources our AP Music Theory class had, and can be a great resource for any classroom, even a non-music setting.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Response to Recording Articles
PLN 7, Google Wave
Google wave is not only applicable to social needs, but its also very applicable in the classroom. It can function as a wiki, can be used to playback things that have happened in the past, collaboratively work with other students on projects, and publish sites by embedding them.
Overall, google wave will be able to be used for all kinds of applications once it is released!