The wonderfully useful application called ‘Snippy’, which can be downloaded free from this link allows any section of any screen to be captured with little more than a right click of the mouse - an ideal tool to add visuals to your presentations.
Thanks to Steve on the Shropshire Education blog for this one.
Notes for the first (yellow) level and the second (green) level of Music Explorer are available as pdf files as follows:
Course Title: Developing Higher Level Thinking Skills in Music at Key Stages 1 & 2
Course Date: 16/10/2006
Times: 09:15 - 12:00
Venue: Shrewsbury Training & Development Centre
Course Leader: Keith Havercroft
9.15 – Introduction
9.30 – Session 1: A series of practical activities in listening, performing and composing, which provide opportunities for the development of higher level thinking skills at KS1 and KS2
10.45 – break
11.00 – Session 2: Developing strategies to maximise the focus on thinking skills and transferring ideas across the curriculum
11.50 – Summary and evaluation
12.00 course ends
Course members are asked to bring along an instrument which can will enable you to play a rhythm and an instrument which will enable you to play a melody (e.g. a tambourine and a xylophone etc.. )
It seems that the future of the ‘A’ level GCE Music Technology course is in some doubt as the Edexcel board had, at one stage, decided not to seek re-accreditation. As the only provider of examinations in Music Technology at this level, this could clearly be a problem leaving potential university technologically literate musicians with-out a reasonable alternative post-16. I see from Edexcel’s own website that discussions are continuing. See the link.
Today saw a lively conference day during which colleagues were introduced to a wide range of topics, including ‘musical futures’, ‘Sibelius o-generator’, DfES KS3 initiative for music, an introduction to collaborative on-line tools and hands-on experience with podcasting and other demonstrations. A PowerPoint presentation of the notes of the day are available from my digital-brain site via this link . My address for visitors to shropshire.digitalbrain is keith.shropshire
See ‘Writely‘
See ‘Flickr‘
See ‘Musical Futures‘
See ‘o-generator‘
Agendas are about to go out to subscribing secondary schools (and others) in Shropshire and Telford for the conference day in Shrewsbury on July 17th.
A mixture of updates, networking opportunities, sharing of good practice, presentations and hands-on experience of a range of resources. led by Keith Havercroft (Music and e-Learning) and Dale Jones (ICT consultant).
Details will be in the post and online within the next few days
Try this really useful tool as noted by colleague Andrea Dunn on the education blog
It allows you to identify those annoying tunes you just can’t get out of your head, whilst also proving to be a useful and fun tool … Songtapper
Rock idol 2006 is a completely free competition supported by DfES funding where students perform via video conference to a panel of experts and are judged live and online.
More information can be found at www.rockidol.org.uk
Plans are afoot for the next teachers Composition weekend at Arthog on the Mid-Wales coast, overlooking the dramatic and beautiful Afon Mawddach. The weekend involves work with a professional composer and, in the company of others or working alone, creating music, with coaching from the professional composer and the Adviser for Music, drawing ideas from the local environment.
For further details of the next course please contact me via the website
Don’t forget to recommend the very useful BBC bitesize revision guide to your GCSE music students.
Topics include:
Classical Orchestral Music
Contemporary Music
Musical Appreciation
Musical Elements
Baroque
Classical
Romantic /19th Century
20th Century
Blues & Jazz Pop Music 1960 - Present Stage & Screen
Analysing music Evaluating music
Music evolution
Music in context
Devices
Instrumentation
Melody & Harmony
Notation
Rhythm
Metre
Texture
Music for Dance
World Music
Exam Topics:
16th - 18th C - Dance
16th - 18th C - Waltzes & Polkas
20th - 21st C - Disco & Club Dance
Afro - Caribbean Music
British Folk Music
India - Classical to Banghra
Latin American Music
Exam technique
It is well worth spending some time here.
The site can be accessed via this link
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