This is how your ensemble relates to your wider community, whether within your school or within your community as a whole. These will require the cooperation and collaboration of other educators and may be the most difficult to implement on your own.
- Linking Physics To Music By Breaking Wine Glasses–Chad Criswell had his students tackle the myth that you can break a glass with just your voice. To be fair, I saw this on Mythbusters years ago, but it is still really nice to see students replicate those results. (MusicEd Magic)
- Allvideo: Embedding and sharing quicktime–Paul Draper has a fairly involved tutorial on embedding quicktime into your work. This is a fairly advanced technique, but if you are looking to do this, he puts you on the right path. (Draper’s Blogspot)
- Tocar y Luchar (Play and Fight)–Geejay Arriola has a great review of the Venezuelian system that takes classical music to the poorest children across the country. (Music Anthology)
- We Need to Teach Them What?–Roger Whaley takes a hard look at the use of computers and technology and its place in the classroom. (The Band Ed Tool Shed)
- I Finally Tried Wii Music–Amy Burns has taken the leap. She has put Wii Music in her classroom and discusses the implications. (Elementary Music/Music Technology). In a similar fashion, Ben Baker takes on Guitar Hero in his classroom. (Teaching Music B.S.)
- Word of the Day: Accomp-er-collaborative Pianist–Chris Foley has written several posts on the concept of a collaborative pianist as opposed to an accompanist. (The Collaborative Piano Blog)
Spinning around and going nowhere…–Sarah Johnston creates one of the best word paintings for the differences between teaching in an urban setting and a less challenging environment. This is a must read! (UrbanMusicEducation)
Tags: Accompanist, Collaborative Piano, Elementary Music, Guitar Hero, Music Technology, Wii, Wine Glasses, Word Paintings
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June 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Just wanted to say thanks for including a link back to my blog! Always good to know there are people out there reading. Take care, Sarah