It’s the end of the “third” week and I am ready to begin the process of reflection on the two weeks prior to this that seemed like a lifetime ago. I took Level III back at UNC this year with the fabulous David Connors and new instructors, Jennifer Donovan(recorder) and Victoria Redfearn Cave(movement). What a [...]

Finally summer time (yay!), and I have time to jot down a few end-of-the-year thoughts on the wiimote whiteboard that I have been using for the past few months. Since my last post on the subject, I had my $25 pen stolen by one of the kids- looked too much like a Sharpie I guess, [...]

Is Tagxedo the new Wordle? I tried it out and found the expanded features(arrange your words in shapes, custom colors and themes) exciting and fun to waste time with! Didn’t like having to load another Microsoft plugin onto my computer, but it was worth it for the amount I paid for it (nothing!)
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Here’s a short video I made of my classroom for the awesome teachers on  the Music K-8 Mailing list and everyone else who cares… The music is a Sample Midi project that I do with 5th/6th graders where they take a “classical” midi file and make it “modern” by mixing it in Garage Band. This [...]

Here’s a few photos of the two arrangements in my room for the Wiimote Whiteboard(WW). First arrangement, up in the “front” of the room by the real whiteboard. My room is longer than it is wide, so I originally installed my projector screen on the little overhang on the side so I could have the [...]

MarchComesIn- 3rd grade Class 3B,  Performance Asessment March 2010
I realized this week that I do not post regularly enough on the front of the blog when my students do neat things. Here are a few things we’ve been working on this month that are pretty cool! K/1 learned accompaniment to the popular children’s book, Cookies [...]

Well, folks, I finally have a few minutes to sit and compose a blog post! It’s been a crazy past couple months with a successful performance and lots of state testing going on. Things have returned to “normal” and I can finally make music in the music room again! Lately, though, I’ve been using my [...]

Sadly, it looks like the days of safe video keeping are over as my Fliggo site has disappeared and has been replaced by Vidly.com. I heard rumors through my Musick8 mailing list that this was about to happen, but it has been months since the supposed turnover was supposed to happen and my videos were [...]

If you haven’t seen this little simple flash synthesizer yet, you have to try it out. I was addicted after the first try and have to share this with my students upon return to classes in January! Merry Christmas to everyone reading the blog and I hope 2010 brings health wealth and happiness to all! [...]