Interactivity #3

The group process required by this interactivity was authentic collaborative and all of us worked together to fill the spreadsheet with our personal knowledge on music technology. We came up with ideas and reasonably listed names of technology and websites. I was not familiar with some of technologies and I learned many new sources through this project. The final inventory of our spreadsheet is Karaoke software website by Allison. Through this program, you can sing, record, watch and listen to yourself singing. 

Reading through the list, I was amazed at how many technological supports I can get for music teaching. Some of them inspire me to use them for actual music teaching. For example, Virtual Keyboard website, introduced by Ryan Freid was a great tool for kids to learn the keyboard. On this "virtual" keyboard, there are different sound options like flute, guitar and strings. Children will love spending time on music learning with this program. Since letter names are written on the keyboard nicely, students can learn letter names on the keyboard without a teacher. 

This complete technology inventory can serve my purposes in READ 411 (Language and Literacy). Music has its own literate world with musical vocabularies. Music teachers must test students' basic musical terms and in order to do that, I need a good website to support their study. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary was introduced by Patricia Bruno and this website will guide students to find the answer whenever they do not know what a certain musical word means. 

This collaboration was good for all of us, because we could share our information on music technology and we learned a lot from each other.  

Interactivity #2



In 1900's, the invention of TV probably made the classroom more fun and diverse, however it is sad to see that this many students had to sit in front of a tiny little Television to figure out what they were talking about. 



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Use of technology in music classroom

Using technology in the classroom opens many doors for young music students.
It grabs their attention faster and easier, proving music is not a boring traditional labor, but an enjoyable game in the world of sounds. If educators use this musical techonology in proper ways in teaching, music class would provide much more fun in learning for our students. We cannot buy all the fancy techonology system for our students, but some are affordable. Technological music products must be purchased in extra care because it is almost imposible to update devices often. It can be one of teacher's required abilities to buy proper device that really help students learning in long term. Digital equipment such as Roland RMP 12 can provide percussion sound both inside and outside the classroom without taking too much room. Music creation software helps students composing with different instruments. Finally, I would like to have a good recording system in my music classroom. Use of technology in music classroom is increased and now it is very hard to imagine a good music classroom without a good music technology device. It helps students as well as teachers.