Monday, March 25, 2013

Interactivity #3 - Reflection


I think this group interactivity was authentic collaborative.  We all contributed to the spreadsheet and we had a good variation of ideas when we were finished.  We decided to create categories and then have each of us contribute to those categories in order to help us spread our ideas out and make it easier to reach the quota of ideas. 
The ideas we came up with at the end of the activity were pretty varied and some of the things that were on the spreadsheet are technologies that I might not have thought of by myself.  Making this activity collaborative helped get more different ideas on the document.  A lot of the technologies we have on the document are computer-related; like the typical kinds of technologies that you would think of when that word is used.  However, we also have a lot of other things that we call new technologies that wouldn’t fit under that category.  These would include BERPs, music staff whiteboards, and visualizers to name a few.  These are also very helpful technologies that have helped us in the music classroom despite not being electronic (what people usually refer to as technology).

Wednesday, March 6, 2013


The ability to easily have access to an unlimited amount of music and recordings in the classroom through the internet and CDs has changed music education immensely.