You know after you’ve been listening to a piece, pulled it apart, put it back together again and still like it, that it is rich in content to include in your teaching cannon. I’ve been working on a classroom arrangement of Philip Gass’ “Closing”. This piece and arrangement has provided much flexibility, extension opportunities and […]
Consideration to designing resources and online education. In a previous blog I looked at various online/offline software resources for designing resources for students. Not only is it important to look at what method you choose to communicate your content, but also how you design it. In design, there is a set of guiding principles […]
We were fortunate in our last lecture to have a discussion with one of the developers/owner of Rising Software who developed Musition and Auralia. These are music skills programs designed with an enormous level of exercises to practice and drill your music skills. Auralia is targeted to help your aural ear training and sight singing […]
What do three Sydney schools with hugely different approaches to technology integration have in common? This was what the first section of University of Sydney’s MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) The Place of Music in 21st Century Education set out to investigate. It reviewed three very different Sydney schools, two independents and one public school […]
I’ve begun a composition journey in three stages. 1. Designing resources on how to teach composition, 2. Arranging a piece to use in the classroom as an exemplar and 3. Creating my own composition using the composition structure I design. It sounds complicated enough to me, but here is a link to my reflection blog on […]
How do we build great resources to communicate to students? This was the main title of my fourth music Technology lecture…and the answer is…it’s complicated. But not so complicated that it can’t be done. The first complication comes from Australian copyright law. Unless you have the full license for any music, image, score, it would […]
My recent practicum experience involved teaching Stage 4 (year 7 & 8) students who had just been introduced to Soundation. This is another free online sequencing DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that is cloud based so students can work on their projects at home and at school. Like most it includes the option to use pre-made […]
Our third technology lecture taught some very essential and practical skills I’ve already put to good use. Firstly, what are some of the key ingredients to capturing quality sound and video. We were fortunate enough to have a high quality DSLR camera, video camera with two condenser microphone inputs and lights to really aid visual […]
What do three Sydney schools with hugely different approaches to technology integration have in common? This is one aspect of the of what the first section of University of Sydney’s MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) The Place of Music in 21st Century Education investigates. It reviewed three very different Sydney schools, two independents and one public […]
Yesterday I was provided the amazing opportunity of teaching a great year 10 class that has been learning about 20th Century composition techniques, from chance music to phasing, from minimalism to pendulum microphones. So I wanted to plan a lesson that somehow brought together the various elements they have been working on while tapping into […]