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Another is music tech teacher.com, music tech teacher is an awesome site for music educators and students this is a tool that can be used each day in the classroom. There are quizzes test handouts printable pdfs and much more this site is a treasure for the music educator. Here are many games that teach and or reinforce the concepts of music from super piano guy to space note invaders there is lots of teaching and learning going ion when this site is being used. Whenever I play any of the games from this site students that are not even in my class are asking to get into the game. A real emotional attachment is formed between the students and the music. This week while playing composer hangman I discovered a way to imbed controls for songs of each composer on to the active board so that students can make a connection between the names and their music. I find this site so user friendly I direct the students to the website to attain predispose the future lessons. There is something here for everyone elementary, middle school, high school and, college. This is another great one hats off to the owner.

http://www.musictechteacher.com/

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My favorite web 2.0 tool this week is YouTube, now this might seem like a like a copout from digging and doing research but YouTube is power beyond belief. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a video must be a book. I can sue YouTube in so many ways in my classroom. According to Michael Welch there will be more new information placed on YouTube this year than can hold in the entire library of congress. I this class we have all placed new and exciting media on you tube ourselves, and it has been quality work. Everything from writing a song in finally note pad to oiling a trumpet piston valves. YouTube is powerful tool but with great power comes great responsibility. It is highly recommended that all content to be used in the classroom be preview to screen for material undesirable in the classroom. I am by no stretch of the imagination pretending like the material on YouTube is wholesome and good for our students but, if appropriately managed by a responsible classroom teacher YouTube can prove t be an invaluable tool. Here is just one use of YouTube in the classroom. The concert band at my school has been assigned the selection Invicta by James Sweringen for competition in several weeks. I can afford the students the opportunity to view several performances of this piece; I can have them listen to a performance that is below their class level one that is on par with them and another that is superior to them. Together the class can analyze and reflect on what made the superior group superior and other factors so when the class approaches the music they have a clear understanding what to expect in this piece and what the director will be focusing.

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Imagination is one of the tools we are all born with. Some excel with their gift and create beautiful works of art, while others (myself included) only dream of the ability to create something as easy as a stick figure. Thanks to my pick of the day, all you need is a little imagination and your creativity can flourish. Kerpoof.com is owned and operated by the Walt Disney company and according to their website "is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative" (Disney, 2009). Some of the things you can do in Kerpoof include, making an animated movie, drawing a picture, creating a card or a story, and even designing t-shirts and mugs. Kerpoof has an educator resource side called Kerpoof Scholastic where teachers can create accounts and setup an online classroom. The best part about Kerpoof is that you do not need the artistic skills of DaVinci to create a Mona Lisa. All you need is your imagination and Kerpoof's technology to turn your ideas into a work of art.

Below are a couple of videos to help introduce you to Kerpoof. The first is from CEO and creator of Kerpoof, Krista Marks, showing some of the things that can be achieved within the website. The next is a tutorial on how to create an animated movie in a flash and the final video is an actual user submitted drawing. If you would like to view more tutorials and even get some lesson plan ideas, head over toKerpoof's tutorial site and learn more.


(Technology Forum: Krista Marks 2008)


(Keaton 2009)

© 2009 Kerpoof.com

References:
Keaton, A. (2009). Using Kerpoof to make a movie [Video]. Retrieved October 15, 2009, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxFFnaQImo

Disney. (2009). About Kerpoof. Retrieved October, 15 2009, from
http://www.kerpoof.com/#/about

Technology Forum: Krista Marks [Video]. (2008). Retrieved October 15, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tbcULn21I

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BP11_2009103_flickr lesson plan refrence

About .com Beare K.(date). Retrieved October 14, 2009 from

http://esl.about.com/od/conversationlessonplans/a/l_flickr.htm

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This lesson focuses on using Flickr to help prepare for oral examinations such as those found on the Cambridge First Certificate, CAE and Proficiency exams. If you are familiar with this series of tests, students are asked to describe similar photographs, as well as point out the differences between the two through an interlocutor (examiner doing the oral examination) led discussion. Here are some example questions:

• I'd like you to take a look at this photo. Could you tell me what is happening?
• What do you think has caused this situation?
• How do you imagine the people in the photo feel?
• Take a look at your partner's photo. Please compare how the two situations are similar.
• Take a look at your partner's photo. Please discuss how the photo differs from your own.
• What advice would you give the people in the photo?
• If you were going to participate in this activity, what would you wish to do?
• Have you ever done this activity? If so, please speak about your experience.

Aim: Use Flickr as a resource to practice for oral examinations

Activity: Comparing and contrasting two similar photos

Level: Upper intermediate to advanced

Outline:

• Go to Creative Commons and click on the Search CC Licensed Work button. Choose to search on content that you can change by choosing "Search for works I can modify, adapt, or build upon". Click on the Flickr tab and enter a situational search phrase such as "People having dinner", "Hiking with Friends", etc.
• Choose two photos from the group and click through.
• It's a great idea to set up a Flickr account if you do not already have one. It's free and you'll be able to save these photos as 'favorites'.
• Save the photos to 'favorites' if you have an account. Clicking on the thumbnails will take you to a page with the photo and comments. Make sure to click on 'all sizes' in order to download the best quality photo.
• Copy the URL (web address) of the photo on Flickr. Download the photos to your hard drive.
• Open up a new Word document (or other text editing software). Copy the URLs into the document for use at the bottom. If you are doing this exercise with a larger class it's a good idea to add questions to the document.
• Add relevant questions about the photos to your document and then insert both photos into the document. Make sure to label each photo A or B so that students are clear which photo they need to take into consideration. Make sure to add a quote such as "Images used by Creative Commons License Share-Alike License 2.0" including the appropriate URL of the photo and name of the photographer or image creator. This page provides information onvarious Creative Common licensing schemes.
• Print out the document and make photocopies.
• Distribute the photocopies.
• Take on the role of the interlocutor, either with individual groups if working with small classes, or by leading the class as a whole. Lead students through the practice session.
• Information on the exact structure of a Cambridge exam can be found by reading this document on the FCE Oral Examination by Cambridge.

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Oh I forgot one thing I use Skype on the active board in the classroom so the entire class can see and hear.

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The next web2.0 tool that I like and use is Skype. Skype saves me so much time and money it is unbelievable and this is important because of the music departments nonexistent budget. I have always wanted the ability to have guest artist come into the classroom and do workshops with the students. But living on an Island makes this expensive and difficult at best. So, we have to rely on when some of our local musical greats like: Ron Blake (Saturday night live band), Rashawn Ross (Dave Mathews Band) Ruben Rogers (Joshua Redman Trio) get a little vacation and come home. But with Skype I can bring them in whenever they have a few free moments to discuss and demonstrate some concept with little fuss and I can record it all and show it to multiple classes and have the students email questions and track them around the world I think skype is my favorite web 2.0 tool so far. To be able to ask a professional steel band teacher in Trinidad a question about the pan and get feedback for the students instantly and free or charge is just POWERFUL.

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This sounds like a great thing on friday I had that very issue looking for a song that i had used in a lesson last year for my principal. He wanted me to do the lesson for the parents and I could not find it this one rings home for me please send me for this beta.

How many times have you found a riveting video on youtube.com and want to share it with your class or fellow teachers? What would you normaly do to share this new knowledge? If you are like me, you probably copy the url, create a new email message, send an email to yourself or your peers and if you can remember, bookmark the video for future use. Inevitably, after you send the email with the link, it gets lost for ever in your sent mail. Teachers come back and ask you if you can resend the video from months ago or even worse, you loose track of it and end up trying to research for the same video and never find it again. Today I found a tool that helps elevate some of the stress associated with bookmarking videos you find on the web.

Popscreen.com is s a way to bookmark your favorite videos found on my popular video sites including all of these sources. Currently, popscreen is in private beta which means you must be invited to join the site. So without having the ability to test out all of its features, the following is what the site claims can be done.

As a user, the huge advantage of popscreen is the ability to bookmark your favorite shows or webcast from many sites into one online location. After you have booked marked your videos, they are then all attached to your account and stored into one location. This removes the problem of having to go back and search for that great video you watched a couple of months ago. Popscreen also has a feature to allow you to share videos amongst colleagues and friends effortlessly. They also provide a feature that allows you to forward an email you receive from a colleague referencing a video and they will attach it to your account.

You may be asking yourself, self how can I use this in my classroom? Again, if you are anything like me, I utilize some of the great videos that are found on youtube daily. My biggest problem is that I always forget to save the url or bookmark the url for future use. This service would definitely help someone like me manage all of the rich media that is available for free online.

For all the positives that popscreen.com offers, the only negative I can see at this moment is that it is in private beta.

Image Provided by:
http://www.popscreen.com/

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Next on the list is ShowDocument this application allows live document sharing via the Internet like wimba there is a presenter that invites others to a document that the presenter has created. Each person coming into the session gets to put in their name and will be identified as such for the session and unique color is assigns to each. Everyone has full editing capabilities and everyone can see what everyone else is doing. Text can also be shared in the dialog box like wimba.

How do I use this in the classroom? I upload a document to the site give the students the invite info and have them log in then we work on the assignment in collaboration. It’s a great tool to watch students handle specific task and to invite group based problem solving. There are oblivious benefits to this program while working on school committees and documents and each person can do this from his or her own desk saves time and paper.

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My first web 2.0 tool is smart music. I have used smart music before for solo festivals and competitions it worked well for that after the judges started accepting the new technologies ability to perform an adequate job of accompanying students of varying skill leaves. The way I used it in class before was to have students work individually at home or in isolation on sections of pieces or entire pieces they would record their sections and I would evaluate them. It was a great tool students were provided with a much more fun way to practice with the accompanist rather than doing it on their own. And evaluations were documented and cataloged. Now skip forward to web2.0 with the addition of the online teacher grade book students and teachers have what amounts to a course management system (CMS). The teacher sets up assignments for each student or the entire class when the students login they are greeted with the assignments the smart music guides the students through each task and dose it’s own evaluation witch is then sent directly to the teachers grade book for further evaluation or acceptance. Smart music now provides full instrumentation for each student to practice with giving the student a much better understanding of how their part fits in with the music and how each part relates to the rest of the band.

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According to an article (Jackson. l, 2009) on education world website many teachers already use bookmarks for lessons and classroom work but by nature most or the research is done at home and on another computer. I order to get she bookmarks you either have to email to yourself or write them down carefully. But the use of social bookmarking sites can make this process much more seamless, and bring in the social aspect of the name social bookmarking. In my opinion most important the ease of teacher collaboration for example all the teachers in a department can shear all their bookmarks as a collective and everyone will have the exposure of everyone else. If you are a Star Treck fan this brings the “borg” to mind, a race of being that are connected on a mental level with a common knowledge base everyone knows everything always no new or old knowledge is lost with the loss of any one being. Once again science fiction becomes reality.

Teachers can use social bookmarking to share links to websites and to find out what websites other teachers are using.

According to the video Social bookmarking in plain English (common craft, 2007) “It’s just too much” in 2007 there were over 15 billion webpages

Tagging websites is a very easy way of organizing them. On a service such as delicious you can organize them in folders by topic and by tags that can place them into multiple categories at the same time. This is a way for the already taxed teacher to be more efficient and proficient.

References

Social bookmarking in plain Englis Common Craft. (2009).Retrieved October 10, 2009

from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Education World (Jackson L.2009.). Retrieved October 10, 2009 from

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml

UNESCO (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2009 from

http://cms.unescobkk.org/forum/education/ict/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=187

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This is my ETC page

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This is my AR/CBL page.

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This is my WGO page

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Based on the assumption that the educational systems as we know them do not work for the vast majority of the students moving through them, what would work? Think about what you have learned about Multiple Intelligences, Brain-Based Learning, and good instructional design. Are virtual learning environments with course management systems the answer? What about PLEs and Web 2.0 tools? Is technology itself enough? What are the key components you would include in new schools?


The overarching theme that I have gathered form the classes so far is that teaching and learning must become more student centered. This includes varied approaches and appeal to the various types of learners. To answer the question is technology itself enough that answer would be a resounding no. Good instructional design dictates that could never be. In last month?s class to do just a small lesson module took significant research and time, it took us four weeks and we did not apply R2D2 model to its fullest extent because we did not have the time. It would take months possibly years of pre planning and study before we could even decide on the technology to accomplish the specific outcome that we would have decides on. I think that course management systems and (CMS) and personal learning environments (PLE) are both the way to go. Because their will always be various types of learners options are always going to be needed, this is the basis multiple intelligence theory (MI). Collaboration is a neded skill for problem solving it is a tool well supported by web 2.0 tools. But the reason for programs such as EMDT is the fact that we the teachers as a collective are a big part of the problem with education. The EMDT program recognizes that we need to change and offers a direction for that change and growth. What are the key components you would include in new schools? Progressive and aggressive researchers working in a large collaborative utilizing web2.0 tools, strong teacher training programs geared to changing the direction of teaching in a meaningful way. The emergent technology is also a large component of this formula supporting online, distant and classroom learning keeping in mind the different types of learners, student based teaching and learning.

BP1_2009101_Setting up Google Reader

Web 2.0 Applications in Middle School Instrumental Music Education.
I chose this feed because its title is exactly what I was looking for. Looking for web 2.0 applications for my middle school students. So far it has yielded so good tutorials on audio for the classroom and things along that line.

Elementary Music/Music Technology Blog
This feed has introduced me to the SMART response system a wireless student evaluation tool and several ideas for parent night and thematic lessons.

Interesting music and education web 2.0 sites
On this feed web sites and some open source applications for music education are explored and discussed.


Music Technology in Education
This feed was filled with great articles about music technology. It even directed me to a pdf music library on line where scores and music arrangements are free to download.

MusTech.Net: Music Education, Music Technology, & Education
This feed was cool this one directed me to music teachers I could follow on twitter and many other articles and blogs from other music educators.


And as a side note it seems like I can look at youtube videos from my igoogle page at school where if I tried it any other way it was blocked I will see what happens next week.

ETC

Sounds like a lighting company to me. Well, new class new teacher that should be a good thing, see you all out there.

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