Week 6
- Lucy Devine
- Apr 3, 2020
- 3 min read
Ok, update on the whole 'virtual choir' idea for my project. Since the world has gone into lock down, it seems everyone and their cat has had the same idea. My youth choir Vox, is also working on a virtual choir at the moment. There was also an article posted on the Soundtrap for Education page, begging music teachers to reconsider jumping into virtual choirs, because of the hard work and skill set they require. Whilst working on a virtual choir for my project would teach me a lot, I would rather do something a bit more unique. So I'll keep pondering over that.
The article mentioned above:
Also this is funny:
Back to this week's content:
This week was all about resource creation.
The first part of class was learning how to create a screen capture and how to use Premiere Pro. I have created screen captures before, so I was quite confident with that. However I had not used Premiere Pro and I loved it!!! So many more capabilities than iMovie. I am considering getting an Adobe subscription because I love so many of the applications (but for now I am going to take full advantage of it being free for now).
So we had to create a video on Premiere Pro with:
1. A film of me explaining something.
2. Audio of me explaining something.
3. A screen capture.
4. Graphics.
I found James' tutorial video invaluable when creating the video, but by the end of it I was really getting the hang of the program. I got my images from pixabay.com to avoid any copyright issues.
Here is what I created:
Next we went onto discussing how to create online learning resources which are interactive:
Interactivity
Solution to students not having great access to internet:
ePub, a website in a folder designed for offreading
Adobe PDF, you can imbed audio and video and javascript programming
However, they can be tricky and involve programming
Android and windows are the two most used operating systems.
iBooks author is great but only works on Apple
Sway works across platform (not particularly interactive, more like a website)
Here are some other options for offline interactive:
Lucidpress
Kindle create (available on almost every device)
Create pages in another app (powerpoint) then can add the interactivity in kindle. create
Book creator
Kotobee
The key point James drove home is that there is no perfect solution. It is important to make content that can be put into lots of different platforms. It's the resources that are valuable for the teaching.
This gave me an idea for a little project that I am going to try and complete this week. I have had two weeks worth of teaching bassoon online, and for the younger/ beginner students this is proven to be almost impossible. The bassoon as so many keys, many intricate changes which create massive results, and it's also an awkward shape for it to be seen easily on camera. So, considering it is now school holidays, I am going to try and create a learning resource for two of my students for them to complete on iBooks. I am going to try and film myself do different fingerings and explaining how to achieve a note. I am also going to include technical exercises and musicianship questions to go along side the pieces they are learning. I am going to attach a few duets for them to learn as well, for them hopefully to play together in the future. If we can't meet up in person, I might investigate how to achieve this on Soundtrap. Anyway, that seems like a pretty big project, but we'll see how much of it I can get done.
I have also recently found 8notes.com and it seems to have some pretty great resources for private teaching. I was thinking of sending it to my students, so they could pick any pieces they like and also listen to the tracks provided. I have never heard of this website before, so I am very interested in other teacher's opinions on it, so I put the question out on Twitter. I wonder if I'll get any valuable response!
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