Archive for the 'music' Category

more music language exercises

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Much as I have drifted away from content creation recently, in favour of social and inquiry learning, I still find a need to make music language practice exercises for my students.  The Keyboard project now has a directory.  And I’m looking at rhythm/melody transcription.  I only have multiple choice for this so far, but a [...]

jing screencasts

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Jing is yet another web tool I found through Classroom 2.0.  It is a screencasting tool with some major WOW factors and is even making me wonder whether I need Snapz Pro.  Here’s my first attempt - a short tutorial about the bass clef.   It’s a bit fiddly embedding Flash in edublogs - you have [...]

new keyboard exercises

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Sav is God. Or for those of you who don’t know Chris Savage, he is a web programmer who has helped me out on many occasions with Flash programming and his understanding of what is needed and the best way to function makes him God-like!
Latest project is a re-useable object for making formative music [...]

music video - no excuses

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Animoto offers an engine that makes instant videos from your images and music.  A day does not pass without me stressing to student musicians the need to create imagery with their music so there is no excuse now.  This service offers entry level video production.  Short videos are free and unlimited full length videos are [...]

ad-supported music

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Wanted: artists and advertisers to mash things up.
We make music because we love it, but making a living at it is kind of useful. The income streams in the music industry are in turmoil as the net changes the face of society, so what is the new model to keep us employed?
Is it ad-supported [...]