MusicCollaboration

=Collaborations in the Music World= Hank Wajda - Robert. K. Shafer Middle School - Bensalem Township School District, Bensalem, PA Jason Heiser Cole - 120 Tuesday July 27th, 2010, 1:10 PM - 2:40 PM VIRTUAL SESSION: uStream [|PREZI] : https://prezi.com/secure/ecd0ba18664c44ecfddbcec1b67a8017909e15ee/

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• Collaborations in the Music World 1:10 PM – 2:40 PM COLE 120
This session will look at two collaboration efforts that are currently underway in the field of music. The Vermont MIDI Project is a longstanding collaboration forum for elementary and secondary level music, and Rock Our World is a more recent collaborative effort for educators from around the world. The presenter will also discuss his experience this year of a collaboration between his middle school classroom and a college classroom. We will also discuss and share what collaborations look like for educators today, and brainstorm ways to create collaborations for the classroom setting.

INTRODUCTION

• EXISTING COLLABORATIONS
---[|VERMONT MIDI PROJECT] -- [|History of the Project] - http://www.vtmidi.org/history.htm -- What is MIDI - how it pre-dates digital audio and the .mp3 revolution -- Works in Sound and Pictures - [|Opus] (Latin word for "WORK") -- Looking and Listening to Student produced scores. (For Safari and Snow Leopard users, you must go to SAFARI---> GET INFO, and switch to 32Bit Mode, other wise the SCORCH plug-in will not work.) ---[|ROCK OUR WORLD] --- Rock Our World! Song sung by students in 40 schools in all 7 continents! ROW is an international collaboration where students from around the globe compose music, make movies and meet each other in live chats! www.rockourworld.org Songwriter: Stephen Petree Sung by: Stephen Petree and the Students of ROW 11 Also available on iTunes! @http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rock-our-world-single/id344030427 -- [|Home Page] - At the bottom, click MEDIA -- Collaborative work - [|YouTube] -- ROW [|Fights World Hunger] ---SHAFER MS with VALLEY FORGE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (Pictures from our experience)

• SKYPE CALL to DR. FLOYD RICHMOND (10 Minutes)
-- Dr. Floyd Richmond is a Music Professor at Valley Forge Christian College, and a former professor at West Chester University. He is a leader in the field of technology integration in the music education arena.

**• SKYPE CALL to MR. DAVID MAY (10 minutes)**
High School Music Director at Burlington City High School, Burlington, New Jersey and organist for the Philadelphia Flyers.

• IDEAS for COLLABORATIONS
- Music Festival Auditions (in large counties) to save time and fuel. - To encourage practice by students – could use SKYPE to practice together - VIRTUAL College visitations to ELEMENTARY and SECONDARY Classrooms - This allows college sophomores and juniors the opportunity to see more elementary and secondary than would be physically possible. - OTHER IDEAS? _

**• HOW TO FIND COLLABORATIONS?**
-[|ePals] ePals is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally. (//from the ePals website)// -OTHERS? __

Virtual Participation & Session Recording
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