Archive for June, 2007

Micromemo - don’t touch this

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I treated myself to a video ipod (as I was always borrowing my son’s one to listen to podcasts) - it is awesome and I now don’t care how long a journey is! I then bought a MicroMemo voice recorder for it hoping I’d be tooled up for mobile interviews. Don’t touch this [...]

to my class of 06/07

Friday, June 15th, 2007

I’ve mythered my NC Music group constantly about using the web to network, learn, share and promote.  I’d like to get a picture of the tools you use so please post your links here to your own sites - myspace, facebook, uniblogs or whatever you use.

It’s coming to the end of the NC Music year; [...]

Classroom 2.0

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

What is so good about the ning community Classroom 2.0?

I joined a few weeks ago and have found the discussions fascinating and the interface tres cool.  Yet in my quest to find web 2.0 music educators I’m still drawing a blank.
The ning  interface is my ideal; it’s easy to set up and smoothly integrates the [...]

music bridge

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

I’ve stuck my head above the parapet in the Education Bridges community and asked to get involved with MusicBridge. These guy are so far ahead, so my first goal is not to do anything stupid and then learn very quickly. I’m a big fan of EdTechTalk.com which seems to be part of the [...]

embed commercial music

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Right from the start of my tinkerings with online learning for music, I realised that I was incredibly fortunate that my subject area was so ideal for the online environment, as media rich resources are what makes online learning in music so much better that paper.
For a while now, I’ve been investigating how to embed [...]