Interactivity #3

For this interactivity, all of the music students in the class got together and created a spreadsheet with as many music related technologies that we could find. Through this we really learned how to use Google spreadsheet and how everyone could contribute without actually being in the same room.Additionally, one person did not have to put the whole thing together. After we created the categories that we found to be the most important, I found it difficult to put some of the technologies I found into just one category. Some of them fit into more than one category so I picked the one it could be most useful in. This activity gave me many more options of technologies I didn't know about and didn't realize could be used in a music classroom, especially because I was only thinking of electronics at first. As a percussionist, I should know different Rhythm technologies but I did not and this introduce me to many other options out there. Also, I learned about useful technologies for other instruments that I am not as familiar with yet, like strings. Often when you think of technologies for a music classroom, the only ones that come to mind are a smartboard and computer programs, but there really are so many more that we overlook. This is a great list for us all to have when we are out teaching.

Interactivity 2

"Smart music" is a software that allows students to practice efficiently on their own by playing into a microphone and getting feedback and errors from the computer.