Signing in.... Welcome to my final technology post!! Tonight was our technology in music education presentation of learning evening, whereby we had the chance to showcase and present our tech. creative projects. The night began at 6pm, however I arrived at 5pm to set up and prepare. At 6pm guests began to arrive and the evening started with an introduction by James Humberstone (head of music education). Throughout the night stage presentations were scheduled in half an hour time slots with table presentations scheduled between each stage presentation. Felicity and I chose to present our interactive children's book from a table, where we could have one on one time with the guests to explain our children's book and allow them to personally interact with the story. We displayed our children's book and websites on an ipad and our own laptops, we also displayed the original illustrations in a folder. Adrian came to view our project first, we explained the work we both did in the process of creating the ibook in which we received positive and encouraging feedback on. Note about our ibook: The use of including the sheet music for each theme and jingle at the end slides of our ibook, allows music educators to use these jingles in a classroom setting to teach to the students. Also if used at home, after reading and listening along to the story parents can possibly learn the themes and play them for their children or the children themselves can learn the music. The book targets an array of audiences and can be used for differing purposes. It was amazing to see everybody's hard work and dedication pay off, and all my fellow music education students did such an incredible and inspiring job with all their projects. I honestly feel honoured to be apart of such an intelligent and passionate year group. Overall the night was a great success and everyones seemed to really enjoy the concept and end product of our children's book. It was a pleasure working with Felicity on this assignment and we consider to do more of this type of work in the future as we both thoroughly enjoyed it. Tech. Unit overall Before starting this unit, although I knew a little, I must admit I was not advanced in technological use, and although I'm not an expert now, I know a whole lot more about different technologies and their importance in education today, especially music education. During this unit we were introduced to an array of technologies that have such an important use in music education today in engaging and motivating students in a way they can relate. Although at times this unit was challenging overall, it was a unit I will never forget! I've now got my own website and twitter account that documents this process. I learnt quite a lot from my fellow classmates and teacher James Humberstone, thank you for giving me the opportunity to broaden my knowledge on use of technology in the music classroom. This unit has given me excitement for ideas to take into music education in my future career. Signing out for one last time.....
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