1. Integrating Technology into the Elementary Music Classroom: A Course For Elementary Teachers Taught By An Elementary Teacher
Course Dates:
Monday through Friday, July :15-5:45 pm
Thursday, July 15 7:00-9:30 pm

2. Contacts: Amy M. Burns, Adjunct Faculty
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Cell Phone (973)
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3. Evaluation & Assessment Criteria
Attendance at all class sessions is expected. The Dean of the Music School must approve any absences.
Responses to the four discussion questions: 2.5 points each – 10 points
Assignments #1, 2, 3 – 10 points each – 30 points
Assignment #4 – 60 points
Total: 100 points

4. TI:ME

5. Technology in the Music Classroom
Day 1:
Technology in the Music Classroom

6. Popular reasons for not using technology in the elementary grades:
I do not have enough time to learn all of the software out there
It will replace a part of my music curriculum
My students are too young to use technology
I only have one computer…How could I possibly incorporate music technology into my elementary music classroom?

7. Technology should enhance your music curriculum
Technology should enhance your music curriculum! “New technologies hold the key to improved music learning. If a teacher places the tools of technology into the students’ hands, it will guide them to active music making” (Rudolph, Richmond, Mash, & Williams, 1997, p. 1)
Pick your favorite unit and add a technological component
Do not build a unit around music technology
Instead…
Find one way to incorporate music technology into your favorite musical unit

8. Benefits for adding technology to your K-8 Music Classroom:
Enhance your musical units
Reinforce musical
skills that are
being taught in the
lesson
Excellent assessment tool

9. Accomplish The National Association for Music Education’s National Standards for Music Education (MENC): (retrieved on August 1, 2008, from
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others,
a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts,
and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

10. Most Importantly…
Your students will enjoy the technology activities that you incorporate into your music lessons!

11. Music Technology in the Classroom
CDs, CD players, DVDs,
Computers
Electronic keyboards
Websites
Software
Internet
Podcasts
Wikispaces
Blogs
Guitar Hero or Wii Music

12. Music Technology in the Classroom
Crayons of Music Education
Yamaha Research:
Long and short term music achievement, as evidenced in standardized tests, is significantly increased when compared to existing approaches of classroom music.
Students who received hands-on instruction had greater comprehension of musical concepts compared with students taught with traditional approaches and methods.
Music instructions provided through a technology assisted program contributes to a sense of professional development and personal growth on the part of the music educators.
Additional outcomes of the study showed that technology improved student concentration, maximized time on-task, developed and enhanced cooperative learning, and fostered higher level thinking skills.

13. 4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
Research with 2nd grade general music class
The EX2 showed the most statistical significant difference with a 48.7% increase in correct answers. EX1=16.7% and CG=46% increase in correct answers.
Music Ace and Finale NotePad

14. Music Technology in the Classroom
Dr. Peter Webster The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (2002):
“So, is music technology effective and is it worth the trouble? On balance and on a very basic level, the answer to this question is yes. Does music technology hold the key for solving all our music teaching problems? Of course not. Are there abuses in its use? Absolutely. Does it always improve learning? No, much depends on the context--especially the teacher and its use instructionally. Is it worth the trouble to keep studying its role in music teaching and learning? Unconditionally, yes.”

15. During this course, we will:
Explore educational Internet sites
Explore music software
Create a Wikispace
Explore blogs
Learn and create with notation software
Learn and create with GarageBand
Explore podcasts
Learn and explore keyboards and software synthesizers
Create CDs
Edit audio with Audacity
Explore and use the SMART Board

16. The Internet in the Music Classroom
Network
Websites
Message Boards
Blogs
Wiki
Twitter
Search Engines
Webquests

17. The Internet in the Music Classroom
SFSKids
DsoKids
NY Phil Kidszone
Virtual Keyboard
Music Theory Puzzles
Smithsonian Folkways
Classics for Kids
Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures

18. The Internet in the Music Classroom
Make Music Machine
Creating Music
Math and Music
Music Theory .net
Emusictheory
Game Aquarium
Phil Tulga
Music Intervals

19. The Internet in the Music Classroom
Groove Lab
Interactive Recorder Fingering Chart
Interactive Boomwhackers
Science of music
40 ESSENTIAL SNARE DRUM RUDIMENTS
The Music Interactive
Google Earth
MmmTsss
Choral Public Domain Library
Classical Music Archives
Noteflight

20. The Noteflight Learning Edition will provide the teacher with almost everything they are looking for.
Noteflight Learning Edition is an online service designed for music educators. Available by monthly or yearly subscription, it's based on the Noteflight Score Editor, a full-featured notation tool that runs in any standard web browser.

21. Upload Evaluation Document
Accept my invitation to join our wikispace.
If you did not receive an from me/wikispace, please login to your account and accept the invitation. (Check Spam folder).
Save document with your name somewhere in the title
Follow Amy’s directions to upload to the wikispace