Technical Resources

For my third post, I would like to report on how valuable I find this course to educators. Unfortunately, in my career as a student, like many other students, I have experienced some valuable courses and some terribly useless ones. However, I believe the skills we are learning in this class are of tremendous value. The things we have learned, such as HTML, audacity, and windows movie maker, can only help us create multi-modal presentation techniques to help us differentiate instruction. This is of wonderful use when catering to different learning styles (or multiple intelligences as introduced by Howard Gardner). As useful as it is, however, I do think that there is so much more to be learned! Ideally, there should be separate technical classes for each disciple (music/theatre/dance education). You could spend years just learning technical resources for music education alone. For example, Garage Band and finale are both wonderful tools for music educators, not only for us to use in teaching, but also to teach our students how to use. Garage Band for instance allows students to compose their own songs with the click of a button! If only we had time to learn such wonderful programs, I think it would be really beneficial!