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.
I think our group really did a good job on this project. I also learned a lot of new technologies and websites that I never knew about before, some of the stuff is really awesome and definitely useful. I think every one contributed great sites and we learned a lot from it. I think that this assignment/spreadsheet would work well in future classes because it gives students a chance to collaborate more on their own time rather then trying to find time to meet up with everyone. It was a great way to learn new things.
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