Music+and+Art

Music and Art - Anna and Chasidy  This chapter was about how music and art has changed and revised the curriculum for students and teachers of the art and music departments. There have been a number of programs created to enhance the creative side of these disciplines and also changed the way teachers are to teach and instruct students. This chapter justifies the reason for incorporating art and music into the curriculum for schools. Art and music has had a major effect on the way students now use and manipulate music and art. When integrating technology into this area of content students are opened up to new and exciting artistic expression. They learning literacy have changed among the students and have helped the students develop new analytical, literacy, and communicative skills.
 * Chapter 13 Technology in Music and Art instruction **

__MUSIC __ Support for music composition, production, and performance; have the available software and resources like Apple’s //GarageBand,// sequencers and notation software to support their creative musical explorations. Music self-paced learning and practice; offers individual, personal help with needed skills, ear training, or music theory. Support for teaching music history; internet sites provide easy-access to background information on composers and musical periods/compositions. Support for interdisciplinary studies; builds on relationships between music and other subjects. __ART __ Accessing art examples for classroom use; internet and CD collections provide ready access to works of art to use as samples. Using teaching examples and materials: Multimedia slide lectures are easier to use, allow quick random access to examples and illustrations. Teacher-created websites provide easy-to access exercise in color and design theory and photography techniques. Producing and manipulating digitized images; Flexible system for creating images Supporting graphic design and 3-D modeling; offers many opportunities for artistic expression. Support desktop publishing with graphics; let students illustrate their brochures, newsletters and other documents with high-quality graphic. Virtual Field trips to art museums allows students to see art without leaving and one that are not locally available. Creating movies as an art form: students can produce their own creative works for research, reports, assignments, and entertainment. Using computerized kilns; automatic monitoring frees students and teacher time during production of ceramic work. Allows for more precise control of process and repeatable results <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sharing students creative and research works: allows students many way of documenting works and easily sharing it with others
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Issues and problems in music instruction would be the **
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Redefining of music literacy; computer software has encouraged a change in the way students understand and learn music that they no longer have the desire to learn how to read or write music.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Training teachers to meet music standards; Music standards have changed over time causing the teaching methods to change due to the new equipment incorporated. This redefined music standard causes traditional teachers to learn new technology that may not come easy for them to learn.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The intersection of popular music, technology, and music education; teachers need to be familiar with music’s complex web of music, culture, and traditions.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The music director as small business administrator; overseer of inventory, student’s academic process, finding ways to rise funding, and have knowledge of information management software.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Issues and problems in art instruction would be the **
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Funding of art education; funding at all time low
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ethical issues with using images; it’s a must that teachers teach students that they must cite resource and request permission
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Accessing images used in art education; protecting students from unsavory material.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The challenge of meeting standards in art education; the standards suggest that students know and be able to do the following by the time they have completed secondary school.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Effective ways in which technology can be integrated into Music and Art **

__<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Technology Adaptations for Students with Special Needs __ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In order to adapt technology for special needs children teachers need to choose objects that students can manipulate and do the physical motion of the instrument. Luckily there are companies out there that make a variety of adapted toys that allow students to move switches and other necessary objects from when they're making music. This makes things easier fro the students to use the instruments, while allowing them to be hands on and participate along with everyone else.

__Integrating Technology__ Students can use Apple's //GarageBand// as a personal recording studio to compose, record, and publish their own music. This allows students to have the flexibility and resources they need to support their own creative musical exploration.

Students can take virtual field trips to art museums on different websites. The virtual field trips allow students to "visit" them without leaving the classroom while still being able to see great works of art. Then the students can make their own interpretation of the works they saw.

Music Ace's "Doodle Pad" teaches students about the different parts for different instruments. Doodle Pad makes it easy for students to write music with different parts for different instruments.

__Websites__ []/ Animoto turns photos, video clips, and music into videos that allows you to share them with everyone. [|http://www.easywebvideo.com/#features] Easy Web Video allows you to use the website as a space to import a video to do extremely easy video publishing. [] Jam Studio allows you to make music completely online. First you inter the chords, then you inter the instruments, and then publish it and you're done. [] Neave Interactive offers cool interactive art tools that not only allow you edit the images but they also allow you to record your voice. This website is great because you are creating interactive art. [] Photo Op allows students to practice digital photography online. You are given filters that allow you to customize and edit your photos.

__Useful Software__

[] Sibelius is music notation software that is sophisticated enough for composers, arrangers, and publishers, but easy enough for beginners to use. You are able to write, record, and edit music on it.

__Quiz Questions__ 1. What are the reasons Robinson and Roland (1994) said we should link the goals of school art programs with rapidly developing instructional technologies? Expanded modes of expression, Literacies for the information age, creative approaches to modern problems, and arts as aesthetic balance.

2. What is the definition of music literacy? The ability to read standard music notation.

3. What are the two essential tools for music production/music composition? Sequencers and Notation Software

4. True or False. Since it is becoming easy to use images from the Internet and other sources, it is increasingly important to teach students that they must cite sources and request permission to use information, images, or other sourced materials. TRUE

5. What are the two graphic techniques that can only be done on computer software? Tweening and Morphing