Monday, March 25, 2013
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.
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I definitely agree that we developed a very useful resource for music educators through this spreadsheet. Working together in a digital environment was both convenient and efficient. The biggest challenge I found was that by simultaneously "meeting" we would occasionally step on each other’s toes. For instance, more than one person would attempt to write within a cell at the same time and one of those people would lose the information they just typed. Did you find that problem too? That said, I still think it was the most productive system we would have used.
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