So for this week’s blog post I have uploaded a podcast to my wiki that takes you through all of the written work below (this week’s reflection), what each digital tool is, what they can be used for in a class environment and an elaboration of one of these tools and the pedagogical advantages of using this tool in music classes.
To start my reflection: images. Personally, I like the use of images in classroom environments, relating to the class texts and getting students excited for up-coming topics. Images can be used for so many different things, like engaging the students’ cognitive skills, influencing their emotions, supporting the students’ skill development. Imagery can be used to advertise an up-coming topic, hinting at what the subject might be; engaging students in a topic before it even starts.
Using imagery in class environments will also open the student’s RAS’s and let their limbic system (amygdala) and pre-frontal cortex be engaged in the learning environment. There are many things that teachers should be aware about when using imagery in classroom though. First and foremost is confidentiality and consent; no parent wants their child’s face all over the internet, whether it was a class task or project where other students took photos or if consent was given but the identity of the child was blatant and any stranger could identify and find the child just from a photo online.
Digital Videoing is the topic of discussion next in line. So please click play and watch as I beautifully (cough cough) reflect on videos.
Reflection on using Windows Live Movie Maker:
Making a movie was... interesting, to say the least. Recording everything was easy, I decided on what I wanted to say and made a script, I planned to be in different places around my house so that I could play around with the effects moving from one scene to the next and I added my dogs into the video to make it cute. All of this was easy, it didn’t take me long and the ease of it made me want to make the movie 50 minutes long.
Luckily I didn’t though because when it got to the stage of using the Movie Maker editing tools, I got lost. Like, very lost... It took me probably an hour of mucking around with the tools to get it to do what I wanted and then from there everything went pretty quickly, so trial and error for the win! YAY! In a class setting, I would recommend this, but space it out over lessons, so the students plan and film in one class. Learn how to use the editing tools in another and actually edit and complete their film in another class. Because otherwise it would take too long and everyone wouldn’t learn because they’d be too focused trying to figure out how to use the program.
Besides my technological incompetence, this whole movie making process was relatively easy, and I really enjoyed learning how to use the tools to make my own video.
I’m going to end my reflection of each of the tools with a podcast about podcasts as it will be the tool I will elaborate on.
Here is the podcast I found on AudioBoom about the benefits of musical education:
https://audioboom.com/boos/2677439-the-benefits-of-musical-education
Reflection on using Audacity to make my podcast: I think you can tell throughout my podcast, and my reflection on using Audacity to edit a song, but Audacity is super easy to use. I used Audacity to record my podcast, with the simplest click of a button (there on the left, the big red circle!) I then did some quick editing to make everything that little bit more perfect (it’s weird listening to your own voice over and over again) And then I exported the file, uploaded it to AudioBoom, and here we are! At the end of my reflection, beaming because AudioBoom, Audacity and podcasts are all easy tools to use and would benefit classrooms in an immense way.
Last but not least, I have created a table to elaborate on how podcasts fall into each category of the SAMR model, in the case of using them for musical education in schools:
Ok, so that’s my reflection this week. I hope you enjoyed reading/watching/listening and I’ll see you again next week for some technological fun!
References:
Cathcart, M (N/A) The Benefits of Musical Education, retrieved from: https://audioboom.com/boos/2677439-the-benefits-of-musical-education
Holmes, Gary (2015) Digital Tools 4: Images, retrieved from: This week’s moodle material.
Stansbury, Meris (2008) Analysis: How Multimedia can Improve Learning, retrieved from: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2008/03/26/analysis-how-multimedia-can-improve-learning/
Willis, Judy (2010) How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick, retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMZnfFD1maU&feature=youtu.be
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (2011) Rhapsody in Blue, Gordon Goodwin's That's How We Roll
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (2004) The Quiet Corner, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band XXL
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (2001) Sing, Sang, Sung, Gordon Goodwin's Swingin' For the Fences
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