Blog Reflection #8

I have learned some new things this semester.  As I stated in my ePortfolio, I am taking away the use of social aspects. Blogs, wikis, & ePortfolios are a great way for students to interact with each other outside of the classroom. I have read many of these tools but never thought of them as something that can be used for teaching. Especially in music. I don't know that I will keep using this particular blog, but I have thought about creating my own blog on a topic of interest to me.

Blog Reflection #7

I created a lesson plan that used Google's blogger and YouTube.  In the lesson plan students had to go to the class blog and click on the link. This took them to a webpage call Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir. I created this lesson because in the video, Eric Whitacre created a choir of people from all around the world. Each individual recorded their voice part and uploaded it. Then all the voice parts were placed together thus creating a virtual choir.

Kids learn so much differently now than when I was in school.  Information is available to them almost instantly. They don't even have to go to the library to pick up a book now.  Some are available through media such as iTunes, Kindle etc. I think we have to focus on that for education now.  A lecture class doesn't teach kids of today.  (It didn't teach me before which is why I have chosen online classes for the majority of my education for the past two years) We should focus more attention on how to teach outside of the traditional classroom.