All Entries Tagged With: "Education"
Easy sharing for Music Technology Educators
Have you come across Zotero? If you haven’t it is a plugin for Firefox that I could not do without. It allows you to collect your web resources together in one place, synchronize them between computers, add notes, even store related PDFs, files, images, and links in your library. You can then use the Zotero [...]
Open education
I recently came across a great resource (thanks Stephen) from Yale University; the ‘Open Yale course‘ series. Of particular interest is the course by Professor Craig Wright from the department of music. You may be familiar with Professor Wright’s coursebook ‘Listening to Music (5th edition, 2007)’ which I believe is widely used in the US. [...]
Who's music is it anyway?
Found myself reading ignatia’s blog today which discusses connectivism (which could be thought of as a particular approach to thinking and acting with technology) and what simmilarities it shares with interpretivism and critical social science. While many interesting questions are raised I came across the following which relates to my thinking here on Music technology in [...]
Culture of technology and technology of culture lectures
Thanks to Amber for sending me this link to to 50 free lectures on technology from universities across the world. Categorised into Culture, Information, The internet, Machines Invention and Creation, Computers, Open source and Future. There is something for everyone (well almost!) Visit the site here.
Classroom control?
Have you seen the new Korg nano series? The Nano series is a set of three small USB MIDI controllers that can be used with many computer-based music making software programs (Ableton, Logic, Cubase, Garageband, Sibelius…). I heard about these after the London International Music Show in June and they sounded quite promising. However, I [...]
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