Technology Ideas for Educators
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Using Technology to Teach School Band:
Bringing Band into the 21st Century!
The short movie below serves as a self-evident
introduction to the many creative and educational ways of using
technology to teach band. I created this short technology project
while studying at NYU. Please feel free to browse the links on
this page and share ideas with colleagues.
Click below to watch a lower quality, but faster,
presentation:
Click
here to download a HIGH quality presentation to play on your computer
(7.1 Megabytes).
Using Technology in the Band Classroom:
- Create an "internet listening locker" for
the students is a wonderful way to play examples of representative
sounds and band literature. It is important, however, to gain
copyright permission to distribute the works to your students.
The students can go home and listen at their leisure to any
listening assignment or enrichment activity.
- Use "Finale Performance Assessment"
software to teach musical concepts and test those concepts in class.
www.finalemusic.com/
is the web address for ordering information.
- Use "Smart Music" to create a "virtual
accompanist" for your students. This is an exciting and
innovative program that actually "reads" the student's tempo and
dynamic/style changes! The student can have the luxury of an
accompanist at any time s/he needs it. This program is also
available from Finale at
www.finalemusic.com/.
The Smart Music software is demonstrated here:
http://www.smartmusic.com/benefits.aspx
- Use "Finale Notepad" to have your students
compose and share music. Music composition is a too-often
overlooked part of a well-rounded music curriculum. This is
yet another amazing program from Finale available at
www.finalemusic.com/
- Create an email discussion group for your
classes. Sound files and musical examples can be attached to
emails and sent to students for "asynchronous" instruction. If
a student is motivated to explore music at 2 AM on a Saturday, s/he
can do so with asynchronous instruction. Most students already
use the internet, so we are reaching the students in a comfortable
domain.
- Create a class webpage using a user
friendly program like Microsoft Frontpage
www.microsoft.com/.
Post your assignments and sound files to the website for the class.
- Have the students prepare CD samples of
music they listen to on a regular basis. Use student
submissions as a point of departure for music appreciation class
discussion.
Some important links for further
reading:
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