Module 6 Reflection
This week's blog post comes a bit earlier than the rest. I usually write these on Sunday, but this week, I am writing this on Friday because I am out of town for the weekend. Our university's orchestra was invited to perform in Washington, D.C. as part of the Capital Orchestra Festival, hosted by Music Celebrations International. Due to that, I am glad that this week's work load was lesser than that of the previous modules. I am also glad of that because I got very sick Monday evening, which kept me home on Tuesday and Wednesday.
This week's topic was instructional design. This was also the subject of a course here in the graduate program, and it was nice to see a connection between that course and this one, especially in our readings in which Bauer (2014) discussed backward design. In the Instructional Design course, the big project was to design a unit using backward design, and I used that to plan the first half of this semester for my concert band, which is going well. One of the small things Bauer touched on in our readings this week that caught my attention was a tool called Voicethread. In our courses in the graduate program here through the University of Florida, the discussions have all been through canvas. There is one exception to that and that was the course entitled Musics of the World, and we actually used Voicethread for our weekly discussions, as well as a couple of projects. I enjoyed using Voicethread and was hoping other courses would have utilized it for the discussions, but unfortunately, none since that course have (and I only have one more class left before my capstone). Voicethread allows much more interaction in discussions than simply typing out our posts. You also get to have a bit more connection with your classmates and your teacher. I am actually a little surprised that this course did not utilize Voicethread.
Our big assignment this week was our plan for a WebQuest. I had heard of WebQuests, but I cannot recall if any of my teachers ever utilized any. Perhaps they did, but did not use the term WebQuest. For my WebQuest, I decided to design it based on the repertoire and composer of our end-semester concert, which will be an all-Beethoven concert. I can say that I will not actually be utilizing this WebQuest, and that is largely due to time, both in finishing the project and the actual implementation. This, however, will at least give me some experience in designing a WebQuest should I ever decide to use one later on, and it will also better prepare me for the pieces that we are going to perform for that concert. This was not an assignment per se, but we were also supposed to learn about Google Sites and watch the Essential Training videos from Lynda.com. I honestly have not done that yet for the reasons mentioned in the first paragraph, but that will be one of the first things I do next week.
Reference:
Bauer, W. I. (2014). Music learning today: Digital pedagogy for creating, performing, and responding to music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
This week's topic was instructional design. This was also the subject of a course here in the graduate program, and it was nice to see a connection between that course and this one, especially in our readings in which Bauer (2014) discussed backward design. In the Instructional Design course, the big project was to design a unit using backward design, and I used that to plan the first half of this semester for my concert band, which is going well. One of the small things Bauer touched on in our readings this week that caught my attention was a tool called Voicethread. In our courses in the graduate program here through the University of Florida, the discussions have all been through canvas. There is one exception to that and that was the course entitled Musics of the World, and we actually used Voicethread for our weekly discussions, as well as a couple of projects. I enjoyed using Voicethread and was hoping other courses would have utilized it for the discussions, but unfortunately, none since that course have (and I only have one more class left before my capstone). Voicethread allows much more interaction in discussions than simply typing out our posts. You also get to have a bit more connection with your classmates and your teacher. I am actually a little surprised that this course did not utilize Voicethread.
Our big assignment this week was our plan for a WebQuest. I had heard of WebQuests, but I cannot recall if any of my teachers ever utilized any. Perhaps they did, but did not use the term WebQuest. For my WebQuest, I decided to design it based on the repertoire and composer of our end-semester concert, which will be an all-Beethoven concert. I can say that I will not actually be utilizing this WebQuest, and that is largely due to time, both in finishing the project and the actual implementation. This, however, will at least give me some experience in designing a WebQuest should I ever decide to use one later on, and it will also better prepare me for the pieces that we are going to perform for that concert. This was not an assignment per se, but we were also supposed to learn about Google Sites and watch the Essential Training videos from Lynda.com. I honestly have not done that yet for the reasons mentioned in the first paragraph, but that will be one of the first things I do next week.
Reference:
Bauer, W. I. (2014). Music learning today: Digital pedagogy for creating, performing, and responding to music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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