Transcript Teaching Music With Technology. A Concept Whose Time Has Come.

Teaching Music With Technology
A Concept Whose Time Has Come
Thomas Rudolph, Ed. D.
Director of Music
School District of Haverford Township
1801 Darby Road
Havertown, PA 19083
(610) 853-5900 extension 5452
email: [email protected]
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It was 20 years ago today…
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Microcomputers Come to Music David Shrader,
The Instrumentalist, February, 1981
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1982 - purchased an Apple II+ (48K RAM)
and dot matrix printer for $4,000.00
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The Use of the Computer in Music Education PMEA News, May 1982 - Rudolph
Key applications in 1982….
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Electronic Instruments to enhance performing
ensembles and classroom music.
(Arp Odyssey)
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Initial interest in computers
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declining enrollment
use technology to reinstate a cancelled course and
offer independent study.
Results of using technology
Training 3000+ music educators
1. Tools for teachers
2. Tools for students
3. Constantly evolving and improving
4. Not a panacea
The music curriculum of the
future:
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Performance ensembles (performers):
 About
the same (chorus, band, orch.)
 Students/teachers using technology to
enhance learning, creativity, performance.
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General music classes (consumers)
 Incorporate
technology as tools or crayons
for music education: electronic instrument
labs, computers, internet, and multimedia.
The MENC National Standards
1. Singing, alone and with others...
2. Performing on instruments alone and...
3. Improvising melodies, harmonies and acc...
4. Composing and arranging music..
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music..
7. Evaluating music and music performances..
8. Understanding relationships between music, the
other arts, and disciplines outside...
9. Understanding music in relation to history and
culture.
Technology and the National
Standards….
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Ask: how can technology be used to
enhance the national and/or state
standards?
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Evaluate: is it worth the investment?
The 7 areas of technology as
defined by TI:ME:
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1. Electronic Instruments
2. Music Notation Software
3. MIDI Sequencing
4. Computer-Assisted Instruction
5. Telecommunications and the Internet
6. Multimedia and Digital Media
7. Information Processing and Lab Mgt.
The Technology Institute for Music Educators
www.ti-me.org
1. Electronic Musical Instruments
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May Not:
 Replace acoustic instruments
 Replace existing ensembles (band,
orchestra)
1. Electronic Musical Instruments
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May be used….
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As a versatile classroom performance instrument
for the consumers (2)
As crayons for music education (3)
Replace missing instruments in ensembles (1)
Used in labs for performing, creating and
improvising music (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Performance Ensembles - electronic and electoacoustic ensembles (1, 4)
– Hilltop HS - Dennis Mauricio
2. Music Notation Software
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Applications
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A teacher’s tool - arranging, composing and
writing warm-ups and methods (1, 2)
A student’s virtual staff (4, 5)
Used in the computer or MIDI lab to enhance
creativity (4)
2. Music Notation Software
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Tools:
 Free
music software NotePad
– www.codamusic.com
 Sibelius
teaching tools
– www.sibelius.com/products/teaching_tools/
2. Music Notation Software
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Web Applications
 Downloading MIDI files
– www.classicalarchives.com
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Posting files in Web Pages
– Scortch www.sibelius.com
– SmartMusic Showcase
– www.codamusic.com/coda/fs_home.asp
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Vermont MIDI Site
– www.vtmidi.org
Composers in Electronic Residence
– www.edu.yorku.ca/CIERmain.html/
3. MIDI Sequencing (recording)
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Applications
 To create accompaniments for ensembles
(1, 2)
 Create practice recordings for students
(1, 2)
 A student’s tool to compose and arrange
music (3, 4)
3. MIDI Sequencing
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Support from publishers
 Silver Burdett - MIDI Connection and Making
Music with Technology
 MacGraw Hill - Music with MIDI
 SoundTree General Music Curriculum
How-To books on Sequencing
 ArtistPro.com
 Hal Leonard
 Berklee Press
 Warner Bros. Publications
4. Instructional Software:
practice and accompaniment
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Practice and Accompaniment (1, 2)
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Band-in-Box www.pgmusic.com
SmartMusic www.smartmusic.com
Web Delivery
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Band methods online
Practice online
www.haverford.k12.pa.us/jazz/index.html
4. Instructional Software:
Computer-Assisted Instruction
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Applications
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Enhance independent learning (1, 5, 6)
Provide a motivational drill and practice
medium: music games (5, 6, 7)
Individualized instruction.
4. Instructional Software:
(Computer-Assisted Instruction)
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New Trends:
 Interactive software
 www.harmonicvision.com
Use of CD-ROM to enhance sound output
 www.alfred.com
Web delivery
 www.creatingmusic.com
 Floyd Richmond’s list of educational sites:
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http://courses.wcupa.edu/frichmon/omea/
5. Multimedia & Digitized Media
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Applications:
 Provide a medium for curriculum integration
(8, 9)
 Produce digital media projects (8, 9)
5. Multimedia & Digitized
Media
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Digitized Media
 Digital recording software
 Self-contained recording devices
 FREE Protools software
 www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
 Burning CDs
 Working with Digital audio
www.haverford.k12.pa.us/jazz/index.html
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Web Delivery:
 Download files from the net
 Share files with others via the net
5. Multimedia & Digitized
Media
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Multimedia applications
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Students manipulating digital media
Related arts activities
Examples:
 Bob
Tozier, North Allegheny School
District
http://www.northallegheny.org/academics/music/idx/in
dex.htm
6. Internet & Telecommunications
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Applications
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Link students and teachers to information
throughout the world (8, 9)
Provide a communication medium: web pages, email, MIDI files, distance learning (7, 8, 9)
The ultimate communication tool
– Create a site in minutes: www.teacherweb.com
http://teacherweb.com/pa/haverford/drewshanefield/index.html
7. Information Processing,
Computer Sys., Lab Mgt.
Manage daily work more effectively.
 Teachers need a basic understanding of
computer systems and concepts.
 Teaching in a technology facility
requires technical knowledge.
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Publications…
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MENC Opportunity to Learn Standards for
Music Technology
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(www.menc.org/publication/books/techstan.htm)
Curriculum and Scheduling
Staffing, Equipment
Materials/Software
Facilities
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Technology Strategies for Music Education
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www.ti-me.org
Strategies for Teaching: Technology
 www.menc.org
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Training and Support
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Seek out training in the use of computers and
technology
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Technology Institute for Music Educators
(www.ti-me.org/ti-me/summer.html)
Attend state & national music education
Conferences.
Join Music Education Technology
Organizations:
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TI:ME (www.ti-me.org)
ATMI (www.music.org/atmi/default.htm)
TDML (http://music.utsa.edu/tdml/)
Action steps...
Learn about technology - focus on how
to use it in innovative and productive
ways.
 Investigate how to integrate technology
into the music curriculum.
 Seek out funding through technology
budgets and grants.
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