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Music Educators’ blogs

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

creativity

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

If Ofsted says it and the BBC reports it, it must be true.  Creativity is good for learners.  The BBC picks up on creativity in relation to school children working with creatives (designers and writers for example) but in the broader picture, this strengthens the impact of iLife in education.

ECDL – revisions

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Great news from this interview with David Baugh – ECDL is being revised, hopefully to become more than just a hommage to Bill Gates, but a meaningful qualification for all tech users. Were equal ops addressed when ECDL was devised?