Last week my Sydney Conservatorium of Music Technology in Music Education (#SCMtech) students handed in their main project, worth 50% of the course marks. It’s an interactive iBook, designed for elementary or middle school music education, but also you’ll find they’ve shared equivalent resources to be printed or burned onto CD for schools that don’t have iBooks programs. The marking rubric puts the focus on content, but rewards design and presentation as well as innovative use of the technology.
The students are sharing the iBooks and other resources from their websites, also created as part of the course. You can download them for free and use them in your own teaching or to teach yourself/your students at their own pace. The following list represents hundreds of hours of work so please reward these talented students by posting feedback on their pages if you like their work.
Genre-based resources
Introduction to Rock Music by Lachlan
Introduction to 12 Bar Blues by Jay
Piano Music – Romantic to Pop by Merinda
Playing Guitar and the Blues by Edward
Jazz for year 8s, based on Summertime by Annabelle
Instrument-based resources
Guitar for beginners by Jordan
Introduction to Drums by Johnny
Playing Guitar and the Blues by Edward
Repertoire-based resources
Antarctica by Nigel Westlake, by Erin
Coldplay’s Viva La Vida by Tyler
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds by Joel
The Lord of the Rings soundtrack by Tom
Disclaimer: As part of this course students learn about copyright, creative commons, correctly crediting authors and school licensing. The legal “hard-lines” are explained, and the “grey areas” too. Therefore there shouldn’t be any use of copyright material in the following resources, but if there is, it is the responsibility of the student who has published it, and educational use is assumed.
