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Graduate Courses
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Graduate and/or professional development credits are available to educators
through our Summer Music Technology Institute. These
offerings are conducted at local school sites. Three (3) graduate credits
are offered through Salem State University in association with the Northeast
Consortium for Staff Development. NOTE: All courses are scheduled
for 7:30 am to 3:30 pm.
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Apps for Music Education
Web 2.0 and mobile devices are quickly becoming
the method of todays musicians and students to communicate and
create. This course will explore a variety of mobile and cloud
apps that can be used to enhance music creation, collaboration,
communication, assessment, and advocacy. These new technologies
can provide continued learning outside of the classroom by providing
students with free resources for creating and exploring music
skills learned in the classroom. Numerous cloud and mobile apps
can enhance learning and promote and support collaboration and
creativity. This is a hands-on course relevant for general,
instrumental, and choral teachers at all levels. 3 Graduate
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Finale: The All Purpose Tool
This course will demonstrate
how Finale can become the technology tool that all music educators
can use to develop instructional materials for use in their
teaching! Focus will be on Finale tasks, tips, and tricks of
interest to all music teachers, both for and with students.
Some topics included are: typesetting music (lead sheets, piano/vocal,
instrumental scores); scanning music into Finale, exporting
music graphics into text documents; easily creating all sorts
of teaching helps (i.e., exercises, worksheets, drills, warm-ups,
flash cards, games, fun student composition projects and more);
creating realistic playback and saving files as audio; and importing/exporting
MIDI files. This course is structured for both the Finale beginner
and those with more experience but wanting review and more applications.
All Finale files open and work similarly for Macs and PC’s.
3 Graduate Credits |
Teaching and Learning in the "Cloud"
Cloud computing applications are web-based
software tools that allow you to do your work from any Internet
connection using a web browser and any kind of computer. These
powerful, yet easy to use tools have great potential for teaching
and learning in the classroom. This class will explore a variety
of cloud app types, such as Noteflight, the Aviary suite, and
Google Docs, and examine the pros and cons of these apps as
teaching and learning tools. Emphasis will be placed on developing
successful integration strategies that promote and support collaboration
and creativity in the classroom. This hands-on course is relevant
for all K-12 teacher. 3 Graduate Credits |
Digital Audio Recording for the Music Classroom
Learn how you can affordably record your students!
This is an entry level course will cover techniques for recording,
editing and storing sound. Entry level and professional recording
equipment will be used.to provide music educators with the basic
knowledge required to record and edit classroom, ensemble, and
student concerts and performances for evaluation and portfolio
assessment. Participants will learn how to use both portable
and computer-based digital audio recording systems and create
several recordings with mixing occurring in analog and digital
realms. The materials developed will be appropriate for music
instruction in the K-12 classroom. Software to be used in the
class will include programs for recording in one pass, for recording
and editing two tracks, for recording and editing multiple tracks,
and for burning to CD. The proper use of stereo recording devices
such as mini disc, DAT, hard disk recorders and microphones
will be covered. 3 Graduate Credits |
Making Music with GarageBand
GarageBand helps you turn your Mac into a fully-functional
recording studio. This member of the iLife suite comes with
pre-recorded loops utilizing hundreds of musical instruments
to enable you to sound like a symphony orchestra or a one-man
band. Learn how your students can have fun composing original
music, making arrangements or create musical underscoring and
sound effects to a video. Learn how you can make quality recordings
of individuals or ensembles, demonstrate musical concepts such
as form, dynamics, articulation, tempo, and texture, and prepare
short sound clips for use in class presentations or on a webpage.
This course is for general, vocal/choral, and instrumental music
teachers at all levels, even if you have used the program for
a while, this course will help you look at the program in new
ways. The course will be taught in a Mac lab but all activities
and concepts presented can also be accomplished with Windows-equivalent
software such as MixCraft, Sonar and Acid. 3 Graduate Credits |
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