Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Personal Learning Goals

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Students select and use appropriate technology to create appropriate learning goals. With the help of the teacher, the class or ensemble will discuss, designate, and set rehearsal goals and when they will be accomplished or assessed. Create digital calendars or similar technology to set appropriate reminders for students to monitor practice and progress toward these goals and performances.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Articulation Sound Waves

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Students use assistive technology to visually represent the aural concepts of note length and volume as it pertains to wind band articulation. Use any application and audio recording device that visually shows sound waves. Students can see the difference and generate their own patterns to more thoroughly understand the differences and similarities of different articulations.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Music Advocacy

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Students identify a specific advocacy message regarding music programs. Students create or remix a short video/audio clip to support that advocacy message. Examples may include “Join Music” “Come To Our Concert,” and “Why Music?”

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Interactive Ear Training and Aural Skills

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Students respond to ear training examples by using an interactive or collaborative slide deck. Examples can be short rhythm or solfege patterns. Students begin by choosing an option that matches the example and advance up to full rhythmic and melodic dictation. Interactive slide decks allow the teacher and student to receive immediate feedback and assessment of learning to track progress towards goals.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Ensemble Collaboration

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Students use video/audio recording software to review and critique the performance and practice of their peers. Students provide feedback to one another, building community while demonstrating an understanding of music performance, technique, terminology, and technology.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Beatboxing DJ

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Students will feel like a real DJ as they explore and record basic beatboxing sounds. Students create a homemade “DJ Board” and use a music editing program to make their sounds come to life.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Ensemble of One

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Students will use a recording platform to layer tracks and produce a small ensemble piece as the only performer. This process encourages individual accountability and emphasizes the importance of ensemble performance skills.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Digital Music Communities

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Students will demonstrate their musical interests by creating a playlist using a platform of their choice. Students should analyze and evaluate music choices. Students will then share across an in-house, local, or global digital musical community to share and discuss their musical interests. Students will participate in analytical and evaluative discussions with the musical community.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Digital Music Recording Tools Exploration

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Students will learn about digital media production tools while viewing a high-quality video recorded performance. Students will be able to view a high quality performance, while also learning ways to record and save performances for distribution.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: The Brains Behind Music Streaming

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Students will work to create categories and tags for songs that can be used by music streaming platforms to assist listeners in finding songs that are similar to other songs. Students will work to curate a playlist for the class that includes songs that exhibit similar musical traits to the other songs within the playlist. Student groups then share the finished playlist with the class and how the playlist has been sorted to create similiarities between songs.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Integrating Digital Audio Workstations

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Students integrate the use of a digital audio workstation (DAW) to understand musical theory including timbre (layering), composition (creative thinking), and voicing. Students learn various DAWs in order to use a variety of technologies within a design process by creating new, useful, or imaginative musical creations.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Creative Exchange

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Facilitated by a teacher, students can digitally exchange a recording of an individual or ensemble performance with students in another school, state, or country. When students receive the recording from the other class, they can respond to questions about the performance, such as a “Hear-Think-Wonder”.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Coding Music Composition

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Using predetermined musical elements, either rhythmic or melodic, students compose a “music composition code” in small groups. Laying the individual lines of “musical composition code” on the ground, students add directional arrows to direct performers to the next line of “code” to create a larger musical composition.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Explore High and Low Vocal Sounds

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Students work individually or collaboratively to explore vocal range, high and low sounds, and vowel sounds using Google Arts and Culture: Blob Opera. Students explore how each voice part sounds and interacts with others. After exploration is complete, students can use the tool to create and record their own Blob Opera.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Instrument Bingo: Name and Sound Identification

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This interactive Instrument Bingo introduces students to the sounds of the instruments in an orchestra. Similar to traditional bingo, each card contains the picture and name of an instrument. 

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Digital Music Exploration

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Online chord looping stations and drum machines such as those found on One Motion allow students the opportunity to engage in music creation in a way that is accessible to them without a large theoretical music background. Students can use their intuition and their ears to create music in innovative ways online.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Counting Music: Music Ruler Composition

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Students learn to add music note values, and create compositions in 4/4, common time. Using traditional music  notation students may choose to compose for voice or drums. This ruler composition activity uses a familiar math visual to help students see the length or duration of musical notes. Final compositions can be emailed to the teacher for review.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Rhythm and Groove Exploration

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Students use NYU Music Experience Design Lab: Groove Pizza to create drum and unpitched instrument rhythms with math-inspired concepts. Students create grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles and patterns. The circular rhythm app allows students to begin exploration with “specials” pizza presets and add/remove “toppings” to adjust the groove. Final student creations can be shared as a link, downloaded as a .wav or .midi file, and converted to external music notation software.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Blob Opera Composition and Music Culture Exploration

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Students experiment with vocal ensemble groupings to create their own Google Arts and Culture: Blob Opera. Students work individually or collaboratively to create and record their own Blob Opera. Students then explore historical and cultural aspects of music using the Blob Opera “on tour”. Students listen to the various selections of traditional and classic songs in the public domain from each location, and compare and contrast the musical styles using music terminology.

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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Uke Can Make People Listen

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Students need to know that their voice matters to this world and that they can create music that will enhance their community. This project is designed to allow students to engage in small groups to create an original piece of music.  It will comprise elements of composition, improvisation, music theory, musical notation, and performance while working within a group setting. Students will use a digital audio workstation to record, edit, and remix their song.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts