elearning for music

I had one of these moments on Friday 31st August, just as a new academic year looms.

As I walked from the city centre bus stand towards the college campus where enrolment was taking place, I saw a big, arty advert for a new learning institution, offering digital skills courses - audio. video, gaming, digital arts. And I realised that I was still delivering a course stuck in just one area of the creative industry (music) while the creative world is converging. I certainly hammer the need for multiple skills to my students; the need to diverge their skills as media converges. So this year I will shake up my assessment strategies to bring in multiple media skills by stealth. Even if making video and writing online are not part of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria, they are going to feature more than ever, such is my belief in the relevance of the skills.

I will use Cole Camplese’s vision for digital expression as an inspiration and reference. And an illustration of the power of online multimedia, on the same day, I saw this audio slide show, which was in the top 5 hits on the BBC website 1st September 2007. (about music in New Orleans after the hurricane Katrina).

It would not have engaged visitors to the site if it had been only a text and images story, or only an audio report - the power of the video, in this case a simple slideshow, with music and narrative.

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