Using Noteflight for compositional skills
I’m having some troubles thinking of ways to incorporate audio into my course. Dictation is going to be such an important part of my course and it’s necessary that I include, but am a little stuck on how to go about this. On another note, the noteflight website I came across will be a very useful tool to have a student complete creative assignments and assignments where they are required to notate music in some way. This site allows the user to compose music, play back, edit and share compositions with other users.
This second module has helped me learn more about the students I will teach. In particular the article “Do Online Students Dream of Electric Teachers” helps us get to know our students before we actually “meet” them. While developing my course materials, I refer back to some thoughts in this article to make sure I am keeping in mind, the thoughts and obstacles my potential students may bring with them. I still am quite a bit concerned in offering an online music theory course…..especially to high school students.
The most important for me in developing all parts of my course is making sure students know what is expected of them at all times. Repetition of expectations is necessary for student success and clearly explaining directions and processes for my activities in each module/week/lesson is needed to ensure students will be staying on task. I have always known that I must not expect that people will know what I expect and not to assume they know how something will work but this module has reminded me of how important it is to put every direction and everything I would normally say in a face to face classroom into a document of some kind in the online version.
The moodle course development area is sometimes challenging for me to use…..however I think this is just a matter of getting use to. The most difficult part is figuring out how to use and set up the various activities. (3)
