Online and Happy:
Instruction Tools You Need To Get Started Teaching and Up to Speed!
Presenter:
*Excited about the challenge of teaching online?? Music technology
teaching tools and techniques have become highly sophisticated and
provide many wonderful opportunities to communicate with music students
via the Internet through online servers, many of these free. Public school music teachers are finding many ways to include their students in online courses and there is an intense movement for this to be expanded.
*This presentation will examine music
interaction and instruction possibilities that online faculty can
utilize for class management and creative teaching. Among
topics included will be: innovative evaluation and assignment
techniques, live video conferencing with students, colleague meetings
online, whiteboard interaction possibilities, and archiving of
teaching sessions for student referral.
*Multimedia assignment considerations
will include interactive “voiceovers” for composition
musical analysis, and tutorial instruction utilizing Camtasia, SnagIt,
and similar screen saving programs. Examination of new "In the Clouds" opportunities will be examined. Edmodo, Moodle, Soundation, MindMeister, and the MusicFirst Subscribe Service software as well as MOOCS and their availability will be covered. Webinars and development of video communications will be discussed and information provided for development. Examples of multimedia
student assignments created with Keynote/Powerpoint will be
illustrated.
*Interactive performance activities, and
online music lessons that can be included as part of your music
curriculum will be considered. Websites like noteflight,
and musescore will be examined for their contributions to online
teaching, as will music article reference sites such as JSTOR.
Grading templates, , and
available online resources for theory, composition, performance, and
music education will be examined.
Abstract
This presentation provides an examination of techniques
and tools for effective online music instruction.
Consideration of interaction possibilities through video, audio,
whiteboard, online music lessons, and Internet resources will be
provided. Multimedia assignments, evaluation possibilities, and
accessing of music resources for required reading will be considered. Opportunities for public school teachers will be illustrated as well as free "In The Clouds" sites for course development.