Music, Creativity and Technology: An Example from Actual Practice

Step 1: Find music notation scribbled on a bathroom wall. Step 2: Take a picture of it with your cell phone camera and post it online to ImageShack: http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ix9.jpg Step 3: Post a link to that photo on Reddit for others to see and discuss: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7bqjc/music_found_in_the_toilet/ Step 4: Transcribe melody into Noteflight and create a custom arrangement of “Toilet Melody”: click [...]

Using Noteflight in and outside of the music classroom

Earlier this month Evan Tobias posted about Noteflight, a new online flash-based notation application available at http://www.noteflight.com/. Over the past few weeks I have been exploring this software with college students in my Technology in Music Education course and with high school students enrolled in a beginning piano class at Lowell High School (LHS). Those [...]

Copyright: Ben Stein vs. Yoko Ono - Implications for “fair use” in music education?

Caveat # 1: I am not a lawyer and do not pretend to be one. Today, I read an article posted on Ars Technica written by Timothy Lee detailing a recent “fair use” Copyright decision by Judge Sidney Stein of the U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York. From the article: Judge Stein’s task [...]

Spring cleaning & new beginnings…

Now that the semester is finished, papers marked, and grades assigned, I am starting to clean out my office at Indiana State. However, instead of sorting, reorganizing and planning for next year, I am boxing everything up in preparation for my upcoming move to beautiful Lowell, Massachusetts. Beginning September 1, I will join the faculty [...]

A new international social network for young professionals in music education

The Young Professionals Focus Group (YPFG) of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) has just launched a new online social network - http://ismeypfg.ning.com/ where music educators from around the World can come together to share research, lessons, music, and educational strategies with each other. This site was launched as part of a pilot [...]