Teacher and Tech - Music Nov 6, 2012

Lab

Timelines - TimeToast,  Capzules (make a timeline of music eras, composers, instruments with either of these timeline creators)
Bubbl.us
Enquiring Minds
Integrating Aboriginal Perspective into Music

Class

Exam Questions ??? How many booklets do I need? How many lab spots? How many are doing multimedia?

How to survive the final term - what do you still need to learn about yourself, about teaching, about learning, about people who are different than you? (Meta-teachnition)

Assign 3 - Web Presence

survey service

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

From the RWL
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment on / critique these.

SUMMARY
Tech Ed and you - look back to where you were, look forward to where you go from here.

    - it’s not about the tech, but the tech can help

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom (Really???)

Techy comic by a former student - Interesting Times

Teacher and Tech - Music Nov 1, 2012

Are video games preparing our kids adequately for a post-apocalyptic world?

Last Presentation -Laura/Kati/Jordanna   --- comments

Exam Questions ???

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards
- only one person can touch the board at a time
- what is the best use?
- can we get beyond low level skills
- what are the higher levels of thinking in music anyway?

Important Ideas #21 - 25

Comments on Food, Inc excerpt ?? - a counter argument to bigger is better, faster is better, efficiency is better.

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

From the RWL
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment on / critique these.

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

Course evaluation

Next Class
Summaries- yes you still have more to learn!!
Exam review - how many of you will want ot use the lab??
Lab ??

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 30, 2012

Mr Bean and the Invisible Drum Kit

Lab

More Comments for Lori from OARC would be appreciated - Assistive Technologies

Action - clean up U of M art wiki Figure out among you how to organize the wiki. Then make a VoiceThread with a couple of other people to highlight a grouping of images. You each need to make a comment on each image that you incorporate into your VT.

Rubistar - for some help with rubrics (thanks Janna!)

Class

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone? Due: today in D2L

Presentation - Janna/Helen/Michal  --- comments

Important Ideas #21 & 22

Food, Inc excerpt - a counter argument to bigger is better, faster is better, efficiency is better.

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

Next Class
Presentation - Laura/Kati/Jordanna

RWL for Oct. 30
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment / critique on these.



Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 25, 2012

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - comments?

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?
Due: Oct 30, 2012 in D2L

Presentation - Kristi H / Ashley S / Stephanie Y - Comments

Important Ideas #19 & 20

OARC presentation - Lori Wiebe - Assistive Technologies - Comments

Action - clean up U of M art wiki Figure out among you how to organize the wiki.

Food, Inc excerpt
Rubistar - for some help with rubrics (thanks Janna!)

Next Class
Presentation - Janna/Helen/Michal  --- comments

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

RWL for Oct. 30
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment / critique on these.

More AAC inspirational stuff

Read

MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids
Mobile Devices in Special Ed

Watch

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

Listen

Martin Pistorius story on CBC
Listen to a special education edition of the Science Podcast -  Chris Dede
iTouch4SpecialNeeds links

App Lists and Recommendations
iTouchForSpecialNeeds
http://itouch4specialneeds.pbworks.com/w/page/32672136/FrontPage
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids

Techy comic by a former student - Interesting Times



Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 23, 2012

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Today, 2012 in D2L

Important Ideas #16 & 17

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

How does tech run us?
Runaway Train - A short film (and animator’s comments) about how we unthinkingly race to our own destruction: http://bit.ly/aolDpu and http://bit.ly/rcQAXT by Winnipeg animator - Cordell Barker

Action Break - we are starting a U of M art wiki and you are to go out and take pictures of art around the campus and learn as much as you can about it and post this to the wiki. You have 20 minutes to start this project today - statues, paintings, gargoyles, stained glass, wood carving, etc. Also figure out among you how to organize the wiki.

Environment

Coltan Mining - TED talk Cell Phones and Mining
x find other info about coltan mining
SNL Video - iPhone 5 complaints
Food, Inc excerpt (an argument against ‘progress’ as we generally see it)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary
Ethical Reyclers
The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully. No more “Designed for the Dump”?

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

RWL for Oct. 30
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment / critique on these.

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 18, 2012

Presentation
Christina B/Krista J/Ryan M - Comments!!

Eva Clare Hall for playing with Sound Boards

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 in D2L

Music apps - ?

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

Food, Inc (an argument against ‘progress’)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary

NO RWL this week - finish your projects!
We will deal with environmental issues next week.

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 16, 2012

Lab

Choose one of the following to create a product that expresses your notions of what kind of teacher you will be, or to make the sound track for the animation we saw in the presentation last week (there is a cost to the apps, but have a look at what they can do):
BeatSurfing Music App
VJay App - mix and master music videos on your iPad
Glogster - posters with sound, video, text, images, .....
Garageband - multi-track recording

Class

Class Survey - thanks for the comments.
Thursday is in Eva Clare again BUT should we do the presentation first? You need to think ahead of time of some nice rounds or canons to sing while people play with the controls (with Joel and Janna helping figure it our)

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 in D2L

Responding to your BYOD comments - what should the rules be? Check the following comments and others on D2L. In groups of three come up with some ideas and post them on polleverywhere please.

“So the important thing then is to be able to engage students so that they don’t feel the need to resort to playing games on their device.” Thanks to Mitchell

“However, I have noticed the influence of the devices on those around me.  I often notice my peers playing games, checking their e-mail or doing other unimportant and unrelated things. “ Thanks to Laura

“I wouldn’t mind if a student looks at their phone during class, but I would make sure students understand that they need to grasp the concepts I’m teaching” Thanks to Helen

“I now realize, after looking back on what I just wrote, that technology impacts HOW we do these things and not the actual things themselves... but maybe, like what was discussed in class today, the how we do things makes up most of what we actually care about.” Thanks to Joel

“A boring lecture is still a boring lecture no matter what I have in front of me, and if I did not have a computer to play cards on I would just be doodling on my paper.” Thanks to Stephanie

Important Ideas # 14 and 15

Music apps - the above ones and more?

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

Food, Inc (an argument against ‘progress’)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary

Read/Watch/Listen list for Oct 18

Technology and Society

Environmental Issues
Web sites
Wiki on Cell Phone manufacture and disposal - multiple pages with text, images and video
Choosing environmentally ok devices and EPEAT
This is from "Can the Story of Electronics Ever End Happily Ever After":
Privacy Game (goes with the cartoon from last time)

Videos
TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining
Garbage/Recycling Report
Videos of waste dumping in other countries
The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 11, 2012

Class Survey

Important Ideas # 12 and 13

I need someone to explain this to me - What we’ve forgotten about conversation

Music for Special Needs App article
Music apps?

McLuhan - “We shape your tools and then they shape us.”
“We are always living way ahead of our thinking”
Winston Churchill - “We shape our buildings and then they shape us”
Research of the Future (start at 1:07)

x McLuhan tetrads - open this on your device and with 2 or 3 others try and guess at the answers (before looking) and be ready to try and explain the concept.
x ENHANCE, REVERSE, RETRIEVE, OBSOLESCE

Turkle - what were the main ideas / examples that stuck with you? Is ‘live’ conversation really that scary?

Meta-Teachnition Assignment #1 - live comments?

Next Class
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary

Read/Watch/Listen list for Oct 16

Technology and Society

Environmental Issues
Web sites
Wiki on Cell Phone manufacture and disposal - multiple pages with text, images and video
Choosing environmentally ok devices and EPEAT
This is from "Can the Story of Electronics Ever End Happily Ever After":
Privacy Game (goes with the cartoon from last time)

Videos
TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining
Garbage/Recycling Report
Videos of waste dumping in other countries
The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 9, 2012

Lab

Online resources and the ‘flipped classroom’. Check out some of these that your students might use for review or enhancement.

• Sophia
• Khan Academy
• iTunes U - app for idevices or in iTunes
• MIT Open Courseware

Class

Presentation - Mitchell W/Jordan L/Gisaya G

Bias In Technology

Redekopp a tech_critique from Reynold Redekopp

Language and Metaphor

Postman

“Likewise, a well-designed system is not simply a bag of features. A good system is designed to encourage particular ways of thinking, with all features carefully and cohesively designed around that purpose.” from Learnable Programming.

McLuhan - What??? What does your TV say to you? How about your phone or computer?
x McLuhan tetrads - open this on your device and with 2 or 3 others try and guess at the answers (before looking) and be ready to try and explain the concept.
x ENHANCE, REVERSE, RETRIEVE, OBSOLESCE

Turkle - what were the main ideas / examples that stuck with you?

Meta-Teachnition Assignment #1
Consider your own experience with the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) idea. How has it changed your classroom experience? How has it changed your 'learning' experience? How has it influenced those around you (don't use names please)? Are you comfortable with it? Is ti too much of a distraction? Write 250 - 500 words to describe your experience. We will post these in a discussion forum that has been created in Desire2Learn - go to https://universityofmanitoba.desire2learn.com
Use your UM Jump or UM email login. There is an option there for you to place your file in the Dropbox if you do not want others in teh class to see it.

Read/Watch/Listen list for Oct 11 (if you want more of this)

Technology and Society

Marshall McLuhan - The medium is the message
Watch:
Any 3 (most are short) of these McLuhan videos - or find more of your own

Sherry Turkle - how people relate to technology.

Read -Alone Together -Sample pages on Amazon – a sample of ‘intimate ethnographic’ research.

OR Watch

Turkle -  video links (focus on her work with kids)