Last Friday in class we talked about how important it was to know how to make videos and use imovie. To me I already knew that it was important, but Professor Riley had to clarify to some students who were confused by outlining what makes it important to education. One of the things it can be useful is with recording what the students are doing, so that you as the teacher can show it to the parents, so they can see the progress their kids are making. This is also a great strategy with posting new songs and projects the students are doing on the school website, so it gets the school involved. Some more important ideas can be shown on my last blog post about imovie.
Another thing we learned was more information about Podcasts. What are cool about Podcasts is that they are like video radio stations, and people can subscribe to them. Also what is cool about this you can make weekly Podcasts of your class and the parents can subscribe to them and they can follow the progress of your class weekly, which is good for communication with the parents and to have them see what you are actually doing. This week I get to make my own Podcast! So ill see how that goes, so that I can learn more about it.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4/13 Class Reflection
Last Friday Professor Riley talked about a video recording program called iMovie. What Professor Riley did was that he interviewed one student in our class and asked her different questions pertaining to how she was influenced by music and why she wants to be a music teacher. And during this interview Professor Riley took different angles of the student and recorded another section of the student just playing on the piano. And then Professor Riley put the recorded video in the iMovie program. What this program does is that it can edit the footage in a way so that you can cut things out and move different pieces of the footage cut and displace it in another spot in the interview.
Also Professor Riley explained to us that the program can also create a B-Roll. B-Roll is footage that is shown while an audio is being played from another video. This is cool because it can help with awkward transitions and can be more visually appealing to the audience. I thought this was a really cool program and I cannot wait to try it out to learn more about it.
To me the program iMovie can be used for students in my classroom when they are giving presentations or even when I am trying to explain a topic to the parents and I can show what the students have done in the classroom and the iMovie program makes it easy to edit the videos and add the visual aid of the B-Roll.
Also Professor Riley explained to us that the program can also create a B-Roll. B-Roll is footage that is shown while an audio is being played from another video. This is cool because it can help with awkward transitions and can be more visually appealing to the audience. I thought this was a really cool program and I cannot wait to try it out to learn more about it.
To me the program iMovie can be used for students in my classroom when they are giving presentations or even when I am trying to explain a topic to the parents and I can show what the students have done in the classroom and the iMovie program makes it easy to edit the videos and add the visual aid of the B-Roll.
Monday, April 2, 2012
3/30 Class Reflection
Today in class we had Dr. Ryan teach us all about Smart Music. This was very new to me and I never heard about this technology until now and I find it to be very interesting and very cool! What this program does is that it can play your solo accompaniment for you while you play your solo. The really cool thing about that though is that it actually follows you and can actually act like a really accompanist!! I did not believe it at first, but Dr. Ryan played a solo for us with the program and he changed the tempo by slowing his part down or speeding his part up and the Smart Music followed him! Dr. Ryan even held out a note and it waited for him to play the next note and it did not jump ahead and it actually followed him! My mind was blown.
The next really cool thing about this music program is that there are pieces of band music on it and you can have your band play along with it. And there is an assessment option on the program that can show where your band made some mistakes and it will tell you exactly where you or your band messed up. The next cool thing is that it can actually play the music for you and you can set the music at different tempos and then the indivudual players can play it by themselves to see how well they did. Building off that idea the teacher can set up assignments for playing tests for the students online and the students can play it on their computer and it can get recorded and their score will be posted to show how well they did and then it can be sent to the teacher. This technology can be very useful in the future when I start teaching. This is something I definitely would want to look into more when I get a chance to try Smart Music out and share it with my students.
The next really cool thing about this music program is that there are pieces of band music on it and you can have your band play along with it. And there is an assessment option on the program that can show where your band made some mistakes and it will tell you exactly where you or your band messed up. The next cool thing is that it can actually play the music for you and you can set the music at different tempos and then the indivudual players can play it by themselves to see how well they did. Building off that idea the teacher can set up assignments for playing tests for the students online and the students can play it on their computer and it can get recorded and their score will be posted to show how well they did and then it can be sent to the teacher. This technology can be very useful in the future when I start teaching. This is something I definitely would want to look into more when I get a chance to try Smart Music out and share it with my students.
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