I’m resigning my teaching post this summer and reflecting on both what I have and have not achieved. In particular, what has been wrong with the course I have run and what a qualification might consist of, if I were to design it from scratch.
The bottom line for running courses is enrolment, retention and [...]
It’s inevitable that one is drawn to certain web tools and services, whilst missing out on others. I’ve not been quick to latch onto widgets but I came across dizzler.com which gets the social media thing just right for me! Not only does the player look like an iphone (Dear Santa….) it brings [...]
It was one of those days (yesterday) when I really felt a part of both the creative industry and the global community. A day when all aspects of my endeavour came together sweetly - my passions for social web tools (for connecting and learning), the evolution of creative industries and string arranging! Looking back through [...]
It is a time of tremendous change in education and music. I guess it always is, but the here and now feels particularly exciting. I find that what I want to do - the work I feel passionately about - and what I have time to do don’t match up, let alone juggling [...]
Joe Pisano at musictech.net is an incredibly proactive blogger! I’m most grateful for his dedicated work and humbled that he’s including me is his project to build a community of music education bloggers. He is a real community guy, not only publishing his own reflections but contributing to the conversations around the music [...]
