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• Teaching Music With Technology
• A Concept Whose Time Has Come

Thomas Rudolph, Ed. D. Director of Music School
District of Haverford Township Email
TERudolph_at_aol.com presentation slides available
at www.ti-me.org/mokeynote
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Results of using technology

• Training 3000 music educators
• 1. Productive tools for teachers
• 2. Creative and performance tools for students
• 3. Not a panacea

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The music curriculum of the future

• Performance ensembles (performers)
• About the same (chorus, band, orch.)
• Students/teachers using technology to enhance
  learning, creativity, performance.
• General music classes (consumers)
• Incorporate technology as tools or crayons for
  music education electronic instrument labs,
  computers, internet, and multimedia.

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In Fine Arts, students in Missouri public
schools will.

• acquire a solid foundation which includes
  knowledge of
• 1. process and techniques for the production,
  exhibition or performance of one or more of the
  visual or performed arts.
• 2. the principles and elements of different art
  forms
• 3. the vocabulary to explain perceptions about
  and evaluations of works in dance, music, theater
  and visual arts
• 4. interrelationships of visual and performing
  arts and the relationships of the arts to other
  disciplines
• 5. visual and performing arts in historical and
  cultural contexts

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Technology and the Missouri Fine Arts Standards.

• Ask how can technology be used to enhance the
  Missouri Fine Arts Content standards?
• Evaluate is it worth the investment in time,
  training, and money?

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The 7 areas of technology asdefined by TIME

• 1. Electronic Instruments
• 2. Music Notation Software
• 3. MIDI Sequencing
• 4. Computer-Assisted Instruction
• 5. Telecommunications and the Internet
• 6. Multimedia and Digital Media
• 7. Information Processing and Lab Mgt.

The Technology Institute for Music
Educators www.ti-me.org
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1. Electronic Musical Instruments

• May Not
• Replace acoustic instruments
• Replace existing ensembles (band, orchestra)

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1. Electronic Musical Instruments

• May be used
• Fine Arts Standard 1 (process and techniques)
• As a versatile classroom performance instrument
  for the consumers
• As crayons for music education
• Replace missing instruments in ensembles
• Used in labs for performing, creating and
  improvising music
• Performance Ensembles - electronic and
  electo-acoustic ensemble

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2. Music Notation Software

• Missouri Fine Arts Standards 1 (process and
  techniques) and 2 (principles and elements)
• Applications
• A teachers tool - arranging, composing and
  writing warm-ups and methods
• A students virtual staff
• Used in the computer lab
• or MIDI lab to enhance creativity

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2. Music Notation Software

• Tools
• Free music software NotePad
• www.codamusic.com
• Sibelius teaching tools
• www.sibelius.com/products/teaching_tools/

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2. Music Notation Software

• Web Applications
• Downloading MIDI files
• www.classicalarchives.com
• Posting files in Web Pages
• Scortch www.sibelius.com
• SmartMusic Showcase
• www.codamusic.com/coda/fs_home.asp
• Vermont MIDI Site
• www.vtmidi.org
• Composers in Electronic Residence
• www.edu.yorku.ca/CIERmain.html/

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3. MIDI Sequencing (recording)

• Fine Arts Standards 1 (process and techniques)
  and 2 (principles and elements)
• Applications
• To create accompaniments for ensembles
• Create practice recordings for students
• A students tool to compose and arrange music

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3. MIDI Sequencing

• Support from publishers
• Silver Burdett - MIDI Connection and Making Music
  with Technology
• MacGraw Hill - Music with MIDI
• SoundTree General Music Curriculum
• How-To books on Sequencing
• ArtistPro.com
• Hal Leonard
• Berklee Press
• Warner Bros. Publications

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4. Instructional Software practice and
accompaniment

• Fine Arts Standards 1 (process and techniques)
  and 2 (principles and elements)
• Practice and Accompaniment
• Band-in-Box www.pgmusic.com
• SmartMusic www.smartmusic.com
• Web Delivery
• Band methods online
• Practice online
• www.haverford.k12.pa.us/jazz/index.html

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4. Instructional SoftwareComputer-Assisted
Instruction

• Applications
• Enhance independent learning
• Provide a motivational drill and practice medium
  music games
• Individualized instruction.

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4. Instructional Software(Computer-Assisted
Instruction)

• New Trends
• Interactive software
• www.harmonicvision.com
• Use of CD-ROM to enhance sound output
• www.alfred.com
• Web delivery
• www.creatingmusic.com
• Floyd Richmonds list of educational sites
• http//courses.wcupa.edu/frichmon/omea/

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5. Multimedia Digitized Media

• Applications
• Fine Arts Standard 4 interrelationships of
  visual and performing arts and the relationships
  of the arts to other disciplines
• Provide a medium for curriculum integration
• Produce digital media projects

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5. Multimedia Digitized Media

• Digitized Media
• Digital recording software
• Self-contained recording devices
• FREE Protools software
• www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
• Burning CDs
• Working with Digital audio www.haverford.k12.pa.us
  /jazz/index.html
• Web Delivery
• Download files from the net
• Share files with others via the net

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6. Internet Telecommunications

• Standard 4 interrelationships of visual and
  performing arts and 5 visual and performing
  arts in historical and cultural contexts
• Applications
• Link students and teachers to information
  throughout the world - The ultimate communication
  tool
• Provide a communication medium web pages,
  e-mail, MIDI files, distance learning
• WebQuest

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6. Internet Telecommunications

• WebQuest
• Use the internet to explore historical background
  of composers
• www.educationworld.com
• Mozart WebQuest
• http//www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/mozart/Mozartq
  uest.html

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7. Information Processing, Computer Sys., Lab Mgt.

• Manage daily work more effectively.
• Teachers need a basic understanding of computer
  systems and concepts.
• Teaching in a technology facility requires
  technical knowledge.

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Publications

• MENC Opportunity to Learn Standards for Music
  Technology
• (www.menc.org/publication/books/techstan.htm)
• Curriculum and Scheduling
• Staffing, Equipment
• Materials/Software
• Facilities
• Technology Strategies for Music Education
• www.ti-me.org
• Strategies for Teaching Technology
• www.menc.org

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Training and Support

• Seek out training in the use of computers and
  technology
• Technology Institute for Music Educators
  (www.ti-me.org/ti-me/summer.html)
• Attend state national music education
  Conferences.
• Join Music Education Technology Organizations
• TIME (www.ti-me.org)
• ATMI (www.music.org/atmi/default.htm)
• TDML (http//music.utsa.edu/tdml/)

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Action steps...

• Learn about technology - focus on how to use it
  in innovative and productive ways.
• Investigate how to integrate technology into the
  music curriculum.
• Seek out funding through technology budgets and
  grants.