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.
I have been contacted by the company Legacy Productions who have made a new software program to help musicians of all levels to learn letters on all staves as well as on piano and guitar. The program is ’shareware’ and called “Noteable” and you can try out a demo version of it at www.noteableflashcards.com.
I’ve had a quick look at it and found that I have a disturbingly slow reaction time when using a mouse! The shareware is free for 15 sessions for evaluation purposes.
Let me know what you think via the blog
I have made a career doing things that weren’t even invented when I graduated from high school 40 years ago. It will be the same for today’s graduates, only on a sharply accelerating timeline. Much of what I learned in the classroom is obsolete or, at best, only marginally useful. What has made a difference in my life has been the ability to learn as I go, to adapt to new ideas, to have the courage to take risks, and to feel confident I will be able to perform and successfully meet the challenges of new situations. These skills I learned through participation in band and drama. - Fred Behning retired from IBM Corporation after a 32-year career that included assignments in systems engineering, product development, management, and customer technology briefings, and is still an IBM consultant. A life-long musician, Fred plays oboe and English horn in the Williamson County Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Symphonic Band.
This extract has been reproduced from the website of an American Music Association - The National Association for Music Education
The new Music orders for KS3 can be downloaded here:
For Shropshire secondary music teachers the next network meeting will be entirely devoted to practical work based on updating schemes of work in line with the new orders.
This network meeting will be on November 6th from 1:00-4:00pm at the Shrewsbury Training and Development Centre.
A source of World music CD’s is not always readily available locally so I hope this list of some website worth visiting will be useful - please feel free to add others. Here’s the link
Details of music courses available locally for Shropshire teachers can be found at this link.
Why not consider an away-from-it-all weekend of creativity in a gentle and relaxed atmosphere? Details here.
Materials used at the Secondary Music Network on July 16th are available here.
I have long enjoyed the inexpensive and very broad selection of music available from the Naxos label. The Naxos site has many useful features - try the music and movies listing.
Try this online glossary to support music groups from KS2 level and onwards.
I attended an end of year concert on June 22nd, for the seven primary schools who are taking part in the shole class violin tuition through the Shropshire Music Service. It was a magnificent event with over 150 students showing what progress thet had made - they performed with enthusiasm and style to a full house at the Shrewsbury Music Hall.
This has been a very successful initiative and has been developed as a scheme for woodwind and brass as well in other primary schools in Shropshire. Further details from the Shropshire Music Service.
