Music Teaching With Sound and Image

The Visual Side

Although not exclusively. While in music the aural experience is the most prominent it is use for learning to have visual cues.

one way that this is used is in games like Guitar hero where the visual cue tells you when to play certain keys at a certain time and pattern. (which can produce some amazing results)

using this same technique in teaching to read music it could be helpful for the learner to have a visual cues connected to the sound and notes that play where a video can show a visual cue to play along with the music.

The Sound of it

It is almost a necessity in music to use sound because that is musics realm, so I thought I might become complacent in how to use the sound tools to teach music.

I started with a simple wiki, creating a resource page on definitions of musical elements. I can create the structure and students can contribute their ideas and examples from the internet that they can embed in the wiki and expand on the question "what is music?".

Having the resource of the internet is amazing with the amount of content in the form of music that can be used in examples for teaching. It's also useful for the students because they can draw on their interests and find streams samples and podcast of the music that they are interested in and use those to contribute to their learning, which would not only be limited to genre but could be useful in techniques in playing, theory on style and how the history of music contributes to their interests.

What I am interested in though is how students create their own works and how they can be created collaboratively outside the classroom. Sites like Google Drive and Dropbox have the ability to let people share files with each other instantly. Students could use these file sharing sites to swap recordings that they  have made in order to create Group compositions, and the ability of the teacher to monitor the sharing increases their ability to check who is contributing the ideas and help shape the process.

they can then use any music composition or audio editing program like Sibelius to create their pieces.