Blog: Your experiences working with texture and Garageband

For Thursday, please add your responses to the following questions as comments to this blog:

1. Describe your experience working with Garageband?
2. What challenges did you run into working with the software? Do you think students would have the same challenges? Why?
3. What are some ideas you have for framing a music learning experience using texture and loop-software?
4. What other musical skills or concepts might a loop-based software environment work well for?

Please read Katie Wood Ray's Read Like a Teacher of Writing and be prepared to talk about how to apply her questions for evaluating how to teach from a piece of writing to how we could teach from a piece of music.

Give your feedback to the draft Indiana Music Standards

The proposed revision of Indiana’s Academic Standards for Music, K-12 is currently online for public comment on the Indiana Department of Education website. The document will remain available for review until March 23 at which time all comments will be considered in preparation for the final draft to be presented to the Indiana State Board of Education for adoption. Your responses and those of your pre-service music education students would be appreciated. To access the online evaluation process, go to http://www.doe.state.in.us and look under Hot Topics or go directly to http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/dg/standards/Eval-Music-Intro.cfm.

Please also forward this information to others as appropriate. Thank you for your interest and participation in this important process related to quality music education for every student in Indiana!

Sarah Fronczek
Fine Arts Consultant
Office of Program Development
Indiana Department of Education
Room 229, State House
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2798
Phone: (317) 234-1751
Fax: (317) 232-9121
fronczek@doe.state.in.us

New ideas for Texture piece and popular music

Check out the forum over on my friend Sharon Davis' webpage. One of Sharon's research areas is popular music and popular music processes in the schools. She has some great resources on her site as well as a lesson plan database of lesson ideas related to popular music.

Check it out.

Variations on America!

Click on video to go to YouTube to grab code.