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Before I embarked on this “formal” songwriting journey, I did “dabble” in some song writing, mostly in high school when I was in band class and many of my close friends had the same love for music as me! My… Continue Reading →
This term my goal was to write a song, and record it all from scratch. I somewhat achieved this goal, but also have a some of it left to accomplish. I thought for a final closure blog post, it would… Continue Reading →
Today I recorded some of the audio for my song! Some good news… I found a way to get a LOT of fun audio tracks by using the MIDI keyboard I borrowed from my partner so I could go beyond… Continue Reading →
This was our final week of classes in EdTech, and we got to hear from the various different groups on the technologies they found interesting and useful in their teaching. These included ClassroomScreen, Google Classroom, JustSketchMe, BandLab, and more. The… Continue Reading →
This week we revisited AI in Education, and took a deeper dive. We looked at ways it is impacting classrooms directly now, and ways it could potentially impact them in the future. One facet is looking at how AI can… Continue Reading →
This week in Ed Tech we discussed artificial intelligence, its rampant rise in society, and how this technology may impact our classrooms and our teaching. AI is a broad-sweeping term, and for the purposes of a blog post, it is… Continue Reading →
For our ed-tech presentation, my group (Kevin, Jeff, Noah, Matt, and myself) decided to use MindMeister. It is an online mind-mapping website which allows students and teachers to generate interactive, multimodal mind maps with far more functionality than a simple… Continue Reading →
Exciting news – I am ready to record my song! The next hurdle to jump through has become how to record the song. There are many different audio recording platforms that exist, some of which are rather expensive (but powerful)… Continue Reading →
Gamifying learning is a great tool for creating engagement in the classroom, as well as helping students to focus their attention on learning rather than on grades and reduce stress and anxiety surrounding participating in class. Of course it can’t… Continue Reading →
This week I had a bit more flexibility to sit down and chord out my song. I landed on a fairly basic pattern, of I,III repeat for the verses (F for 2 bars, Am for 2 bars, repeat.) The choruses… Continue Reading →