Technology in the Music and Art Classroom Scott Caffee Carolyn Meador

1. Its Important to connect the Arts to other subjects?A. True B. False

2. ______ Is a program is used in the arts and for sports?A. I scout Pad B. Coaches Eye C. Coaches Clipboard D. Game Changer

3. _____Is a program that can help art teachers create any lesson and includes activities for all ages?

A. Pinterest B. Kinder Art C. KidPix D. Google Art Project

4. The book covers all aspects of music and art?A. True B. False

5. There are Issues meeting the standards through technology?A. True B. False

Key Terms:

• Auto-Tuning • Computerized Kiln • Morphing/Tweening • National Association for Music Education

(NAfME)• Musical instrumental Digital Interface

(MIDI)• Music Literacy • Notation Software • Sequencer • Vocal Processing Software

Issues

• Redefining Music Literacy •Moving away from printed sheet music •Students can now participate with little, or no music reading ability

• Illegally downloading•Copyright Laws

• Cross-over between the simplicity of popular music and the difficulty of the “classical” • Combining the standards

Music Standards

• Music Technology 1. Electronic

musical instruments

2. Music Production 3. Music Notation

Software 4. Technology

assisted learning 5. Multimedia

Authoring

6. Productivity

Tools

• Music Education1. Sing alone and with others a varied

repertoire of music 2. Performing on an instrument, alone

and with others, a varied repertoire of music

3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

5. Reading and notating music 6. Listening to, analyzing and

describing music 7. Evaluating music and music

performances 8. Understanding relationships between

music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Integration Supports: Benefits Resources

Music Composition and Production

• Supports both traditional and nontraditional composition

• Offers teachers flexibility

• Apple’sGarageBand:http://www.apple.com/mac/garageband/

• BubbleMachine:http://www.lipscomb.umn.edu/bubblemachine/ Music Performance • Helps teachers with

theory lessons, quizzes, and other handouts to aide student performance

• Sibelius:http://www.sibelius.com/home/index_flash.html

• Finale:http://www.finalemusic.com/

Self-Paced Learning and Practice

• Offers individual, personal help with needed skills, ear-training, or music theory

• Practice Musica: http://www.ars-nova.com/home6.html

Teaching Music History

• Internet sites provide easy-to-access background information on composers and musical periods/compositions

• PBS:http://www.pbs.org/ • Classic Motown Timeline:

http://classic.motown.com/

Interdisciplinary Strategies

• Builds on natural relationships of music and other topics

• Math&Music: http://www.fun-books.com/books/toc/Math_and_Music_Features.htm

Strategies

1. Students use software like Apple’s Garageband as a personal recording studio

2. Teachers use electronic keyboard lab to develop student’s skills in keyboarding, theory, and harmony

3. Students build a website to teach music history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkSAJYnO3Y

Issues

• Funding • Ethics of images and other materials • Accessing (good) images

Art Standards 1. Be able to communicate at a basic level in the

four art disciplines 2. Be able to communicate proficiently in at least

one art form, including the ability to define and solve artistic problems with insight, reason, and technical proficiency

3. Be able to develop and present basic analyses of works of art from structural, historical, and cultural perspectives

4. Have and informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art from a variety of cultures and historical periods

5. Be able to relate various types of arts knowledge and skills within and across the arts disciplines

Supports: Benefits Resources

Access Art Examples Internet and CD collections provide ready access to works of arts

Masters of Photograpy CD: http://www.masters-of.photography.com

Teaching Examples and Materials

Multimedia slide lectures are easier to use than slides, and allow quick access to examples

Teacher Created Websites http://www.nku.edu/~Houghton/docent

Producing and Manipulating digital images

Offers and easy, flexible system for creating images

Fotofinish: http://www.fotofinish.com

Graphic Design and 3-D Modeling

Offers many opportunities for artistic expression

Ulead Cool 3 http://ulead.com

Desktop Publishing with Graphics

Lets students illustrate their brochures, newsletters, and other documents with high-quality graphics

Photoshop:http://www.abobe.com

Virtual Field Trips Allows students to see model and examples of artworks, not locally available

Louvre Museum, Paris http://www.lourve.fr/anglais/visite/visf.htm

Creating Movies/Videos

Students can produce their own creative works for research, reports, assignments, and entertainment

Microsoft Movie Maker http://microsoft.com

Strategies

1. Students take virtual field trips to art museums

2. Teacher-created websites give short tutorials an art concepts

3. Students create an illustrated desktop-published brochure of newsletter

Integrating special needs students with technology

•Musichttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Assisstive_Technology_Education/Musichttp://www.fctd.info/feature.php?id=33

• Arthttp://www.kinderart.com/speacial http://www.washingtion.edu/doit/Falculty/Strategies/Academic/Artworkhttp://www.vsarts.org

Other Resources • SmartMusic

• MusicTheory.net • Classics for Kids

• Theta Music Trainer • Charms

• Coach’s Eye • Google Art Project

• KidPix • Inspire Pro

1. Its Important to connect the Arts to other subjects?A. True B. False

2. ______ Is a program is used in the arts and for sports?A. I scout Pad B. Coaches Eye C. Coaches Clipboard D. Game Changer

3. _____Is a program that can help art teachers create any lesson and includes activities for all ages?

A. Pinterest B. Kinder Art C. KidPix D. Google Art Project

4. The book covers all aspects of music and art?A. True B. False

5. There are Issues meeting the standards through technology?A. True B. False