Integration Lesson 2

In my Honors Orchestra class, they will begin class by watching Mendelsohn Violin Concerto in E Minor. Using a Google Doc, Write at least 5 musical techniques you noticed Hilary Hahn using.  List 5 musical techniques you noticed other instrumentalists in the ensemble using (Can include the conductor).  Share them with the instructor.  They will then pair up with a friend and compare all 10 things they noticed.  With the combined list, students will then create a joint blog entry informing new strings students how to do these techniques.  Students will be graded on accuracy and demonstration of techniques, creativity, video editing, and originality.  This is a partner project.  Students will film each other using the different techniques (if fewer than 10 techniques were found, students will brainstorm other techniques).  Both students must be filmed demonstrating techniques.  Students will film the videos using the school set of iPods.  Students will receive 1 day to film and then 1 day to edit the film in the computer lab using iMovie.  Finished projects are to be turned in to the instructor via Google Drive.

Assistive Technology

Here is the link for my flyer on Assistive Technology in the Instrumental Music Classroom.

Here is a link to my Prezi on YouTube videos in the classroom.

I have been stressing and pushing students to read the music on the page rather than listening to recordings of our concert songs.  However, it does students well to listen to other interpretations of our concert songs.  So I have found performances of each of our concert songs for all 4 of my ensembles for my students to listen to and reflect on how we interpret the music in our class.

Integrated Lesson 1:

This unit takes what we're currently learning in my Music Theory class and integrates technology into the lesson. While reading from the book and doing the examples located in the workbook, students are barely able to grasp the concepts. However, by adding interactive lessons and technology, students are able to better understand these concepts. With the Blendspace lesson, they are given the information in multiple different ways (interactive lesson, slideshows, and a YouTube video). Students are then able to apply that knowledge in multiple worksheets and then a quiz. After completing all of that, students will then complete a Padlet wall together, as a class. (There are only 4 students in the class so I had a relatively simple set up.) This activity includes the Augmentation and Modification steps of the SAMR Model. The activity has functional improvement with the interactive lesson and Modification with the Padlet assignment where students are working in a group to finish the activity. This also involves the Remembering, Understanding, and Applying levels of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. There is harmonic analysis happening to determine which cadences are in the music and finding examples of cadences at the end.

Web 2.0 Tools

Here are the Web 2.0 Tools that I looked into.
1. PlayPostIt.com
2. Prezi.com
3. Animoto.com
4. Blendspace.com
5. Smore.com


PlayPostIt.com



 I was unsure how to embed this or to even get the link to the video, but I found a wonderful lesson on the TED Talks by Eric Whitacre.  He is an amazing composer and has done incredible things with technology.  I have showed my students his videos before and had class discussions on them but this activity helps them go above and beyond to really understand this video and what it took to make it.

It is the first link under Music lessons.  I was unable to find any resources on this website and it's use in the classroom.


Prezi.com


I absolutely LOVE Prezi! I usually do a PowerPoint slideshow with announcements at the beginning of class.  This is something fresh and new that will grab their attention better.  This would also be a great formative or summative assessment for students to demonstrate knowledge in a creative way.  Prezi allows you to embed videos, pictures, etc. into your slides.  There are many, many settings and different tools to play with so students are able to be as creative as they can be.

First Post

Hello world! This is my first blog entry.  I have not had a blog since high school.  I would like to believe that I have matured a little since then. Ha ha.

I am in my 5th year of teaching and can see some uses for blogs in my classroom.  I can see using this in my A.P. Music Theory class to document our large projects.  Their next large upcoming project is to create their own instrument.  To have them upload and detail their plans for their instrument would be a great lesson!  Another use is having students reflect on pieces we are playing in class; the backgrounds of the composers, backgrounds of the pieces, etc.

That's all for now! Until next time!
~Kim