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A day of Professional Development and networking for music teachers on 20th October 2008, covering music technology and classroom pedagogy with a curriculum focus for all music teachers.
Venue: Mansfield State High School Music Department, cnr Broadwater & Ham Rd Mansfield Qld 4122
Time: 8:30am to 3:30pm
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Session Details
James Humberstone
| Explore & Create with Sibelius Groovy Music for the Primary Classroom
| 2A |
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In this session one of the creators of Groovy Music introduces the three programs, Shapes, Jungle and City. These programs cover all primary school ages and can extend into middle school. As well as learning how to use the software in both classroom (smartboard) and lab situations, participants will learn how to integrate their own repertoire into Groovy to reinforce concepts learned in performance classes.
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| Creating Worksheets with Sibelius
| 3A |
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Teachers need to create worksheets all the time, as hand-outs in lessons, tests or trial exams or notes for musicological study. While the worksheets themselves might be quite simple the art of laying out the page may not be. This session looks at how to set up any kind of worksheet, how to access over 1700 worksheets ready-made in Sibelius, and how to take your music from Sibelius to Microsoft Word quickly and easily.
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| Blogging your Composition Tasks with Sibelius Ideas Hub and Stepping Stones
| 4A |
A new feature in Sibelius 5, the Ideas Hub, allows students to tap into a large library of pre-made musical ideas in hundreds of different styles and instrumentations. As a teacher this is very useful for getting students started, but what if you'd like to limit the material they can access, and even create your own library of ideas to help students start a composition task? This session looks at how to create your own Sibelius files and Ideas libraries for composition tasks. We'll also briefly look at the new Stepping Stones teacher resource kit from the Australian Music Centre, which is great material for any composition student.
Many state and international curricula now ask students to keep a journal of their progress on a composition as they write it. This is very useful for reflection, and also is sometimes used to prove the creative work is all the student's own. The biggest problem with the old fashioned scrapbook-style diary is that constant marking and assessment is very time-consuming for teachers, and when the diaries are taken in students cannot record any more work. In addition to this, diaries can be lost, printing many versions of scores makes them large and heavy, and usually by the end of a year's project the cover is dropping off and pages falling out. Enter the digital age, where students can blog their progress online at school or at home; teachers can view their work at any time of the day and night, keep completely up to date and even offer comments online. The work is backed up on a server, so it can't be lost, and thus any compositional work is also backed up. This session gives examples of how it can work for you.
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| The Avid story: Sibelius, Pro Tools and M-Audio working together
| 5A |
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More than half of the world's professional studios choose Pro Tools as their DAW. More than half the world's publishers choose Sibelius to publish their scores. And artists such as Madonna, Coldcut or the Black Eyed Peas use M-Audio gear to make their albums. Give these 3 companies an education focus, and you get entirely new solutions for the classroom built on real industry know-how. Begin composing in minutes. Learn to DJ your MP3 collection. Master your recordings the way Hollywood does. All under the Avid umbrella.
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Alyson Locke
| Student Engagement - Taking an interest in individual student tastes
| 2C |
It's easy as a teacher to simply teach the things that we were taught and teach those things in much the same way as our music teachers demonstrated to us. It's also easy to grab a standard tutor book and run with it. In my experience however, there are many reasons to look outside of what we have learned as students and take on what it is that young people today are interested in listening to. So perhaps the key here is listening as opposed to teaching. Asking to have a listen to whatever they have coming through their Ipod can provide us with ideas and when it comes to lesson design it can make the job of teaching a whole lot easier.
It fascinates me that the majority of modern day music teaching is still based around the classics of the past. How many students actually listen to Mozart and the Greats? A select few it would seem? So perhaps the question is how many teachers are prepared to teach traditional techniques through modern repertoire? This is an area of tuition that seems to be developing and when looking at the new Rockschool syllabus put out by Trinity College Music London, it is, in my opinion, a valuable and entirely worthwhile source for teaching and learning that can be examined. Embracing the top 40 charts and adopting traditional methods of technique is not impossible and it almost always ends up producing happy, long standing and well rounded musicians.
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Tony Burn
| An idiot's guide to support, stands and accessories for instruments and live audio mixing (suitable for instrumental teachers)
| 4C |
As musicians we all get excited about the instruments we play and some of the equipment we use with them.
Sometimes those same instruments and items of audio equipment can be at risk because of inappropriate or badly made stands. Something as simple as a music stand can become an obstacle to a smooth performance if it doesn't do its job properly.
The reproduction from audio speakers can actually be impaired by stands which don't hold them firmly in place and pointing in the right direction.
Other accessories can make life easier by connecting such diverse things as a laptop computer and a live audio system without requiring installation or a degree in computer music.
Or how about an idiot's guide to live sound mixing? We'll look at how the right selection of accessories can make your life easier.
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Attila Szlay & Len Henderson
| Time Saving Recording and Rehearsal Tools - Roland CD2e, Roland MT90U, Edirol R09HR and Superscope PSD340
| 2B |
These new hardware products from Roland / Edirol and Superscope have really hit the mark for easy audio recording and playback. In this session you will see how easily these products can be applied to your Educational environment/ requirements and settings. Learn how to record direct to CD, overdub and create a recording / rehearsal CD in a few simple steps.
Recording rehearsals and performances used to be a painful exercise - but now with the Superscope PSD340 you can set up in seconds and burn a CD on the spot - without a computer in sight. BYO instrument to this session and see why you don't have to be a recording engineer to produce professional sounding CD recordings for all occasions.
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| Education Applications with Finale 2008 & Notepad 2008
| 4B |
Resources and budget limitations can be very difficult to overcome in schools. Learn how the power of Finale 2008 combined with Finale NotePad 2008 can help achieve your outcomes in an education setting on a small budget. We will go through creating complex worksheets and templates that your students can work on using the powerful and free Finale NotePad 2008. This is an interactive hands-on session with participants working with a Finale file as a student would.
We'll also look at how you can use the emerging technology of MIDI guitar to input scores directly into Finale.
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| Loop Based Composition and Multimedia, using Sony Acid and Vegas software
| 5B |
Music for Radio, Film and television is one of the most widely taught units in the music curriculum. Learn how to apply and use these programs to achieve the outcomes of this popular unit of work. Merge audio and visual into one project, create cross fades and professional looking transitions. Have your students engaged in a technologically enriched environment. In this session you will learn how to create music using pre-loaded Acid loops combined with live MIDI and Audio. Learn how to connect your camera and transfer your recorded video projects into your computer and create soundtracks that will bring your vision to life.
We'll also be looking at some of the winning entries in our recent 'Loop 2 the Max' composition competition, where many of the student entries used Acid as the tool for their school assessment composing task.
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Bradley Eustace
| Think Creative
| 3B |
In this workshop Australian composer and arranger Bradley Eustace will present unique ideas on exciting ways to teach improvisation and composition plus how to incorporate easy-to-use technology to monitor student practice. No previous experience is necessary as the explanations are complete and ready to use in a teaching studio or classroom scenario. Bradley will also perform some of his pieces that have been included in the AMEB, ANZCA and St. Cecilia examination systems. Attending this workshop will equip participants with insights into the execution of creative learning with the use of the latest keyboard technology.
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Richard Settle
| Enjoy success - the 3 R's of instrumental music
| 5C |
Excellent Recruiting and Retention are essential to a healthy Instrumental Program. Without careful attention to both these areas a program cannot grow and improve creating stress and frustration for an otherwise enthusiastic teacher. "How can I get kids to play Tuba/Double Bass?" "How do I get girls to play trumpet or boys to play flute?" "How can I say no to 20 flutes in my 30 piece band when the kids and parents really want it?" How can I keep my students (and myself!) "fresh" Rehearsal after Rehearsal.
Richard Settle will outline strategies for recruiting that will work in any school and also introduce some motivational ideas to help keep the students (and teachers) coming back for more.
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Len & Scott Henderson
| StarPlay & SmartMusic - great practice tools for brass, woodwind, strings and vocal
| 3C |
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Instrumental music teachers have always faced the same problems. How can I tell what my students are practising between lessons? What can I do to help keep them motivated while practising? The answers to these questions have been put forward by StarPlay and SmartMusic software. In this session we will put these software titles through their paces and let you evaluate their usefulness to you and your students. Bring along your own instrument and try it for yourself. It also includes a host of extras we'll cover during the session.
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