A Workshop for Korean Musicers (Musicians Who Teach)

Technological Trends in Music Education

Workshop Description

The impact of digital technology and implications for music education are explored through selected applications. Students are introduced to Web Authoring and the Internet as a Resource for Music Educators. The Impact of Blogs on Education, and the importance of digital technology for multimedia activities in image processing, video processing, and sound processing.

Introduction to MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface) and the use of MIDI in producing music scores for classroom and ensembles as well as the use of MIDI in live performance in student ensembles. Students use the World Wide Web as a resource for teaching and learning.

NO TECHNICAL BACKGROUND IS REQUIRED.

The Marriage of Music and Technology

The relationship of music to technology is not new. If we regard technology as the extension of human ability through technical and process-oriented applications we realize that human beings began to use technology for music making by turning to other means beside the human voice to make music. Much of the history of music and musical styles can be looked at as the development of technology to serve music. Machines for making music such as keyboards, violins, wind and brass instruments, percussion instruments, etc. have been steadily modified throughout history in order to increase the range of human capacity for making music.
In addition to impacting directly on music making, the new technologies have direct bearing on how we teach music. Developments of the internet and World Wide Web and other means of communicating information such as CDRom and DVD, now provide tremendous resources for music educators at all levels.

WORKSHOP: TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS IN MUSIC EDUCATION
Topics and Activities

Day I
Session1
Web authoring
HTML Code
Break
Session 2
Blogging

Day II
Session 3
Searching for Images
Image Processing (Photoshop Elements)
Break
Session 4
More Image Processing
Html Code for Putting Images on the Web

DAY III
Session 5
Processing Sound
File Management with iTunes
File Conversion
Posting Sound Files on the Web
Break
Session 6
Digital Recording

Day IV
Session 7
MIDI FILES
MIDI NOTATION
Putting Notation on the Web
Break
Session 8
MIDI SEQUENCERS

DAY V
Session 9
Digital Video
Still Images and Sound
The 1 Minute Movie
Digital Video
Moving Images
Editing
DVD Conversion
Break
Session 10
WRAP UP AND LOOK TO THE FUTURE