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How To Start a Graduate School Essay?

?Do you commence with a story? ?Do you begin with a reflection on the focus of your forthcoming graduate studies? ?Do you start at the beginning? And where exactly is that? If you want your graduate essay to grab the attention of the graduate admission representative, then keep reading this article… The graduate admissions committee is looking for a snapshot of you – ?Where you've been, ?Where you want to go, and ?what you w… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on November 4, 2009 at 12:26am — No Comments

Blogging for Success?

Hey Everyone, I am currently working on an Action Research project for my master's degree and wanted to know if anyone has had experience with blogging in regards to learning a new instrument. Please email me at ldiamond@fullsail.edu if you about it! I am new to this ning group but am very excited to get involved! So many people have great ideas! Continue

Added by Liz Diamond on October 4, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Dissertation Writing Process Explained In 6 Simple Steps

Dissertation writing is not an easy task and it is extremely challenging for almost all students. Dissertation writing is the most important part of your degree. It requires dedication, perseverance, ability to do in-depth research and determination. Writing a dissertation is challenging but not impossible if you are provided with professional dissertation help. You should try to facilitate your… Continue

Added by Edna Cohen on September 11, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Just banned another member

Just to let all of you know, I just banned "Making Money with Google." Carol Continue

Added by Carol Broos on September 6, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

Help a Teacher Get Inspired, and Maybe Inspire Yourself!

Hey guys, I have decided to challenge myself! My challenge is to do something techie in my classroom or for my teaching at least every other week... mybe that will change to every week if I can get the inspiration! I've started a blog to do just that. I need some ideas to get more tech into my elementary music classroom. I also plan on posting some more stuff about things that I've done in my classroom and what I'm doing to complete my techie challenge. My thoughts are that if I put it up here… Continue

Added by Stephanie Rains on September 5, 2009 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Help! How do you get GROOVY music to work on a Promethean Board?

The K-3 teacher in my district just got a Promethean Board and cannot get the board to work with Groovy music. Is this a preference problem or does she need a driver? Thanks! Continue

Added by Carol Broos on August 29, 2009 at 7:25pm — 2 Comments

Video Games In Music Class? Rhythm Heaven

I recently was given a copy of Rhythm Heaven to do a review on and I was curious to know if anyone else had had a chance to take a look at it or not? It's basically a listen/repeat tapping game for the Nintendo DS that was apparently wildly popular in Japan and has now been reworked for western audiences. It's a lot of fun to play, but I am wondering if anyone else would ever even consider using such a game as a behavior reward for music or band classes? I don't see it being used to teach any co… Continue

Added by Chad Criswell on August 18, 2009 at 11:56am — 1 Comment

Blog on Music Education - http://johnstonb.wordpress.com/

I have started this Blog to help other music educators find useful web resources. Here are some of the ones I found interesting. Please visit. http://johnstonb.wordpress.com/ and if you would like to share great sites, please send an address of a site you have found useful. Brad Johnston Teacher of music technology and IB Music Yokohama International School, Japan Continue

Added by Brad Johnston on August 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Free music notation software: MuseScore 0.9.5 is out!

MuseScore is a full featured open source and free notation software. With MuseScore you can create, listen, and print scores. MuseScore lets you input notes with the mouse, the keyboard or a MIDI keyboard. It supports an unlimited number of staves and up to 4 voices per staff. You can change time or key signature when you want. MuseScore can import and export MIDI and MusicXML files. It can produce engraved output as a PDF, SVG or PNG do… Continue

Added by lasconic on August 17, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

GarageBand '09 Tutorials

Hello, I am enrolled in a Educational Technology masters program and have been working on creating instructional materials for music teachers who are new to GarageBand '09 or would simply like to learn more. I am happy to say that the class is over and those materials are now online. For those of you who saw my previous post and responded to my survey, thank you so much. I used information from that survey to guide my planning as I designed the lessons and developed materials. Each online lesso… Continue

Added by Susan Ferdon on August 11, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Muziic.com

If you have not checked out this site please do so. This is a YouTube Media Player, and a former student of mine owns this site!!!:) Continue

Added by marilee on August 5, 2009 at 8:04pm — No Comments

GarageBand materials and Tech Survey for Music Teachers

The purpose of this blog post is twofold: 1) To announce that I will soon have self-paced instructional materials available, free to share, to help music teachers learn how to use GarageBand, and 2) To ask for help with an online survey. The survey is part of a Front-end Analysis for a course I'm taking in Instructional Design and the results will guide how I design the instructional materials. The purpose of this instruction is to introduce adult learners to GarageBand software and provide gui… Continue

Added by Susan Ferdon on June 28, 2009 at 7:53pm — No Comments

Help a "newbie"!

I am just starting my journey into the world of techy teaching. I'm working on a project for a class and need to know if there is a way to convert a Garage Band file to an MP3 file. Any help for the newbie? Continue

Added by Laurel Farmer on June 9, 2009 at 8:47pm — 2 Comments

Uncharted Waters

Now that they've discovered my love of technology, I've been assigned to teach some actual technology classes. These are Mac-based activities. There is a set curriculum for the course, but if anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear from you! Continue

Added by Wendy Strauss on May 30, 2009 at 11:49pm — 4 Comments

Professional Music Courses at Music Arts School – Los Angeles

Music is the way of life. Music is the form of art that transcend all boundaries and prejudices related to class, culture and creed. All other languages need coordination of sensory faculties such as aural, oral, visual and gesture for expression, but music needs just an appreciative ear. Music has power to melt the most stonehearted person. Music School LA is the pioneering music arts school and the premier college of music based in Los Angeles. The school was founded in the late 70s with the… Continue

Added by Janet on May 11, 2009 at 5:41am — No Comments

Current Music Theory Project - April '09

Timbre Exploration & Sequencing Project ------------------------------------------------------------ I wanted to accomplish several things through this project: 1) Demonstrate how music elicits an affective response in an audience, and what musical characteristics work to create the response. Focus on timbre, but other musical elements , as well (rhythm, melody, harmony, texture) 2) Exploration of visual art resources to identify other art forms that can elicit similar affective responses i… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Wardlaw on April 2, 2009 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

garage band ideas

hi techies, I am looking for some new ideas on using garage band with my 4th and 5th grade classes. So far we do a composition project in each grade. 4th grade focuses on using lyrics that tie in with their simple machines science unit. You can check out their comps on our glen grove school web site under teams-fine arts-music. 5th grade does a Halloween scary composition and has more creative choices for lyrics, styles, etc. But I would love to hear what other general music teachers are doing… Continue

Added by nancy kabat on March 29, 2009 at 8:50pm — 2 Comments

Music Education Must Evolve

Music Education is traditionally thought of in terms of General Music, Band and Chorus. But, except in a few schools, the vast majority of students are not enrolled in Band and Chorus. So, how should we teach music to everyone else? Should reading music be a priority? Notating music? Are these, perhaps, roadblocks to music creation, involvement and enjoyment? The REALITY is that, even among people who earn a living as musicians, only a full 10% can actually read music. A popular example is Pau… Continue

Added by Andrew Garcia on March 28, 2009 at 3:03pm — 12 Comments

Looking to Share School Music Website Ideas

Hi Everyone, I teach middle school choir in Taylor, Michigan, and I maintain a web site for my choir. I've spent a lot of time putting a new site together using Freeway on my Mac. I'd like to swap ideas and offer help to other teachers. Here's my site: http://www.taylorschools.net/west/chorus Do you have a site or want to start one? Email me! Thanks, Dave Martin Continue

Added by Dave Martin on March 28, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

How To Write A Good Masters Dissertation?

Writing a good dissertation requires certain dissertation writing help solutions which should always be used in order to write dissertations comprehensively. It is a critical requirement for every academic dissertation that the student should prove his research question in relation to the dissertation topic in the simplest manner. This can be done through the presentation of original thoughts or ideas or by analyzing what others have researched on the topic that the dissertation is about. If th… Continue

Added by suzzane donald on March 4, 2009 at 4:18am — No Comments

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