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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