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Rationale for ordering smartboard for grade 3-5 music room
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Fritz Benz Jul 29.
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Yes...a Smartboard essentially turns any web or software resource for 1 computer into an immediate resource for the class! Great for visual and kinesthetic learners and allows you as the teacher to take full advantage of the huge amount of resourc...
Like the other comments, I agree that the SmartBoard helps your class become more student centered. The interactive capabilities engage the whole class in learning. I use one for my k-8 general music classes. We have used it for everything from mu...
I use an interactive whiteboard in the music classroom grades 1-5. Our music text is also on cd so I can pull up music and students can highlight and move rhythms around. I've also used Finale with the Promethean Board.
I've found that having an IWB is the best way to get the entire class focused and centered on the same thing. Whether it's something one student is demonstrating or something we're collaborating on as a class, it's engaging to students and helps i...
I would definitely focus on the fact that a SMARTBoard (or other interactive whiteboard brand) can really facilitate and transform student-centered learning, as opposed to the traditional chalk/whiteboard. Especially if you get the portable tablet...
Our middle school uses garage band quite a bit and I would like to order a smart board for my music classroom to incorporate garage band in my lessons for 4th and 5th graders. I have all the 4th and 5th graders in the district. Any ideas to justif...
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- At 9:02am on May 23, 2009,
Erin Contrady said…
- Another good justification for having a smartboard, rather than just a projector, is that it addresses the body-kinesthetic aspects of music learning. I have been using Music Ace and Sibelius Groovy with a smartboard for years. Lessons in melodic direction, for example, become more meaningful when students can literally move the music up and down, and get the immediate feedback of hearing it change.
Also the Smart Notebook software that comes with a smartboard is wonderful for creating lessons. The interface is very much like PowerPoint. For my own 7th graders, I set up an interactive lesson on the blues. They dragged lyrics into proper blues form, dragged sound-linked chord symbols into a grid, and played a virtual keyboard set up in blues scale. How's all that for integrated 21st century learning?
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