June 28th

I really got a lot out of today's topics. Creating YouTube playlists for my students is intuitive but for whatever reason I've never done it - even as I have a large pile of youtube videos that I regularly recommend to my students and that I have watched repeatedly myself. The google form/google quiz is very intuitive to create and something I can apply right away with my students.

I really like Diigo as well as a way to keep track of valuable websites and be able to share those websites with others (and keep abreast of what is out there, what others are finding). To date I've just been trying to remember web searches to find websites or writing down urls. This is much easier.

I would be curious to dig a little into google classroom itself. Probably most of the class is familiar with it, but, this is actually my first time using it (from either side of the user experience). I'd be curious to know more about it and whether it could potentially be applied to a private lesson studio or ensemble, outside of a school setting. Do you think this is a technology that would potentially be valuable for me to use to 1) keep in touch with my students between meetings 2) create an online community of my students (when they don't otherwise see each other in the real world) 3) distribute google forms, youtube playlists, Diigo libraries, etc? Or is there another, better way for my situation?

I really enjoyed the videos on improvisation that you shared. I've seen Victor Wooten give similar talks in person many times and they are always very inspirational - I think what some of the folks in class may have been responding to is the fact that he himself is not a music educator and that shows a little in the idealism of the approach he espouses and the response that some music educators have to it.

I had a similar response when I heard him speak at the JEN Conference a couple years ago - he talked about how he's never been in a situation where a students has had a lesson with him, and then come back the following week for the next lesson - he basically only teaches one-off's or short camps. But I think the content of what he says is right on, especially for developing improvisational ability and musicianship within a given genre.

Thanks for a great workshop

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  1. Bill BauerJune 29, 2017 at 8:53 AM

    Thanks for the perspective on Victor Wooten. I've never had the opportunity to see him in person.

    I suggest setting up your own Google Classroom and playing around with it. This week is only the second time I've used it. It has some valuable features, but it also is missing some - like the ability to organize instructional materials within it. The only way to display things is "in a stream" (like Facebook), which seems limiting to me.

    You might also look at Edmodo - https://www.edmodo.com/ It is also free and a bit more "traditional" in its approach.

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