music

Teachers Teaching Teachers #94 - Music in the Classroom - 03.05.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:01:42 -0500

Recently, Lee Baber and Elderbob Brannan facilitated a 6-week session for the Electronic Village Online. I Got Rhythm: Music in the Classroom.

In today's multi-literate world, music plays an important role. It is one that is often over-looked or neglected in the classroom. With the advent of Web 2.0, Music has taken an even more significant position. Whereas it was once only the subject matter of those who were music majors, it now expands into many relavant areas of expertise. The ability to either select the proper music for a piece or to create music to stand alone, has become a common driver for most students. We beleive that the instructor, though not a music theorist, can offer a variety of resources and information to help students pursue this drive. It is our intent to explore ways that music can be made available in a classroom situation.

EVO 2008 Call for Participation wiki / Music

One of the prizes they found during their class was Joseph M. Pisano, a music professor whose enthusasiam and knowledge bubbles out in this podcast!

Listen to Dr. Pisano, then pass this one on to the music educator in your school. Also check out his blog: MusTech.net

That's not all! Hook your favorite music educator up with Dr. Pisano's campaign, Me Blogger. His goal is to inspire 100 Music Education Bloggers (ME Too!) before 2009. He would like to invite any music educator to become a ME Blogger today. "Join Our “Global Conversation” about music, education, and technology!"

Chat Log

(Click Read more to see more about Lee Baber and Elderbob Brannan)

Chat Log - Teachers Teaching Teachers #94 - 03.05.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:46:08 -0500

http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/3075

20:47:30 Dr. Pisano: Hi Lee! :)
20:47:37 lee baber: hi
20:47:46 lee baber: I am sending susan the skype ids now for you
20:47:48 lee baber: and elderbob
20:47:54 Dr. Pisano: Great.
20:50:02 lee baber: Welcome Linda
20:50:29 lee baber: Dr. Pisano.. we are getting ready to call you in now
20:50:54 Dr. Pisano: Try again...
20:51:39 lee baber: OK
20:51:54 paulallison: hello
20:51:57 lee baber: Welcome bmuench
20:51:59 Dr. Pisano: Hello

Teachers Teaching Teachers #85 - 01.02.08 - Old and New Ring in the New Year

Paul Allison — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:24:34 -0600

We were joined by many old and new voices as we brought in the new year with music and stories of things that changed our teaching last year.

Chat Log

Teachers Teaching Teachers #59 - 06.27.07 - Welcoming new voices

Paul Allison — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:55:40 -0500

Joining Paul Allison (NYC), Lee Baber (Virginia), and Susan Ettenheim (NYC) on this show were two new voices on Teachers Teaching Teachers and one regular guest (with a side of him we haven't seen before):

Karen McComas was finally able to join us. (She has had a class on Wednesday evenings.) Karen is Associate Professor of Communication Disorders at Marshall University, in West Virginia. She is an ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist. Karen also serves as the Chair of the Technology Liaison Leadership Team of the National Writing Project and as a Teacher Consultant for the Marshall University Writing Project . For her, writing is an historical and political act. She writes to understand and preserve the story of her life. She has also been an inspiration for teaching with technology in the National Writing Project for many years. Here's Karen's blog ...in mind's eye...

Betty D. Collum was able to get on using her cell phone. Betty is a 5th/6th writing teachers in Webster County Schools, Eupora, Mississippi. She is also the Mississippi State University Writing Project Tech Liaison, and a member of the National Writing Project's Tech Liaison Leadership Team. This year Betty's students have been contributors to a podcasting project that includes teachers and their students from all over the country, Youth Radio: Connecting Youth Voices to the World.

Bill O'Neal also joined us. Bill has worked with us for several months on YouthVoices.org. He is an English teacher at Trenton Central High School, West, and he is the Tech Liaison for the Trenton Writing Project. After show #58 (06.20.07), Bill wanted us to know that he also has a life in music! When we asked if we could highlight his website about his musical life he wrote:

"The music on my site has little to do with education... but whatever. This fall I am, however, reviving a guitar workshop for the students. I limited enrollment to eight. The district sent us to a weekend workshop (a few NYC teachers also attended) for a not-for-profit group called Little Kids Rock. They will provide the guitars. Lack of instruments was my biggest hurdle the last time I ran a workshop: Very few students owned guitars. Their web site is: http://littlekidsrock.org."

Bill's music site is: www.billoneal.com

Enjoy this a low-key, summer show. We recorded this webcast in the middle of electrical storms that kept knocking out our Skype connections, something you will probably barely notice because of Susan Ettenheim's amazing editing skills!

Please add a story of your own about something that you did in your classroom this year, something that you want to do better in the fall... or something that you want to continue doing.

read more

Teachers Teaching Teachers #58 - 06.20.07 - Finding passion in and out of the classroom

Paul Allison — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:09:44 -0500

This year several elementary school teachers--mainly Writing Project teachers--from California, Colorado, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, and the Philippines sent each other podcasts and poetry and responses on a weblog, Youth Radio: Connecting Youth Voices to the World. These teachers have created a space where young writers and voices can connect with news stories about their communities, their schools and their interests!

That's all fine, but on this webcast Paul Allison and Lee Baber talked to two of the teachers behind this project, Glen Bledsoe and Kevin Hodgson. We never got to the student work because we spent the entire time learning more about each of these teachers as musicians and creative people outside of the classroom.

It's fascinating to hear the differences between the music that Lee and Glen share with us, and to imagine Kevin's sax! Yet what we all share is a passion for living creative, passionate lives in and out of the classroom.

We had a great time together, and we invite you listen in.

Click Read More, below to find a long list of links from Glen's amazingly diverse creative mind.

21st Century Learning #34: South by Southwest (sxsw) Conference Preview

alex.ragone — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:34:14 -0600

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #34
What is the South by Southwest Festival?
Alex interviews arvind about his upcoming trip to the South by Southwest conference.
February 28, 2007

Check out the Chat Transcript for Show Notes