I had the chance, again, to attend an Opening Plenary session as a part of MENC’s National Music Education Week in Washington, D.C. entitled “Software for Music Creation.” The panel was moderated by Peter Jutras, and included Amy Burns, Barbara Freedman, and Estelle Roth. In continuing with my frustrations from yesterday, I was unable to live-blog the session as I had hoped. I did, however, take notes on the session in live-blog fashion, and have posted them here for you! If you have any thoughts or questions, please feel free to leave a comment! Here is my live-blog feed from this morning’s presentation, in bulleted list format:
- Beginning “live-blog” of presentation titled “Software for Music Education”
- Panel is: Moderator Pete Jutras, Amy Burns(@awillis2 on Twitter), Barbara Freedman(@MusicEdTech), Estelle Roth
- Teaching is trying to make connections between different worlds-our world as a teacher, their worlds as a student
- It is difficult making connections when the worlds are from different times and with different resources
- We need to get over the concept of using technology as a “reward” and use it as a TOOL<
- Amy Burns presenting now-TI:ME President-Elect and elementary teacher in NJ
- Sibelius Groovy: Shapes, Jungle, City
- Groovy Shapes: Create mode is like a loop-based program; interface is like creating a jungle-trees, butterflies represent rhythm/melody loops!
- Groovy Shapes “Create” mode allows you to click and drag these aspects of the jungle into the screen to create loops!
- Combine science with music; students create a composition based on their knowledge of the rainforest in Groovy Shapes!
- New program demo: “World of Music” let’s you DRAW music and then replay the exact steps that were taken
- 3rd Grade Social Studies-Music combination with Social Studies; recorder compositions using G, A, B and import into GarageBand to create their own “State Song”
- http://Trakax.com is a free GarageBand alternative for PC
- Amy can be found at http://amymburns.com
- Now time for Barbara Freedman to present-HS teacher in CT
- Barbara can be found at http://www.MusicEdTech.wordpress.com
- Courses titled “Electronic Music” at the HS level—4 levels
- Students have entered “Electronic Music” with no musical experience and gone to college for degrees in Electronic Music
- Barbara starts with GarageBand in early levels, and moves to Logic Pro for advanced level classes
- You used to have to buy 3 different programs: MIDI Sequencing, Notation, Audio—now, Logic Pro (or GarageBand) does all 3!
- Great thought: Barbara’s view of notation: a means by which to re-create music (creation of music does not HAVE to be linked to notation
- Estelle Roth presenting—she teaches Elementary Instrumental Music in VA
- She uses the playback feature in Sibelius that allows you to select which voices to play back (student’s part can be used to aid them or taken away for a challenge)
Thank you to Peter, Amy, Barbara, and Estelle for their wonderful presentation this morning! It was extremely informative and very passionately delivered!
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