Month: April 2012
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#UWSMTeach Assignment 2 – structure and content
A few of you lovely #UWSMTeach students have asked for further guidance on how to structure Assignment 2. Well, for a start, please refer to my Lecture 7 notes which summarised what I’ve already told you. To expand on those: In your teacher notes page, tell me about two students (give them names). One is special…
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#UWSMTeach Lecture 7
Blended and Online Learning Update: I’ve made a Facebook page for our class. You don’t have to use it, but it gives you an alternative to vUWS which I haven’t had admin access to at all this year, and is probably better for online discussion because it’s somewhere many of you live already. You can…
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#UWSMTeach Lecture 6
Performance, process and planning This week our performance activity was based around O-Generator. I showed you some of the content from “Playing World Music” and taught it Orff-style, without speaking, teaching everyone every ostinato pattern, and we played right through the Soukous material that I’d usually spend 2-3 weeks teaching. Obviously your topic is music…
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#UWSMTeach Lecture 5
This week we started with a reading exercise instead of the usual learning by copying or by rote. We used a transcription I’d made of the Penguin Café Orchestra’s rather fabulous Music for a Found Harmonium and discussed what our teaching strategies would be if we weren’t a group of twentysomethings (self excluded) who could already…
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