The document discusses the author's new role as Technology Representative for the CMEA Bay Section and provides information about using Twitter for music education professional development opportunities, including the #musedchat discussion each Monday evening. Examples are given of how Twitter can help music educators stay up to date with ideas from colleagues, focus on relevant topics, and assist in designing learning experiences that develop 21st century skills in students through the integration of technology when used appropriately.
The document discusses the author's new role as Technology Representative for the CMEA Bay Section and provides information about using Twitter for music education professional development opportunities, including the #musedchat discussion each Monday evening. Examples are given of how Twitter can help music educators stay up to date with ideas from colleagues, focus on relevant topics, and assist in designing learning experiences that develop 21st century skills in students through the integration of technology when used appropriately.
The document discusses the author's new role as Technology Representative for the CMEA Bay Section and provides information about using Twitter for music education professional development opportunities, including the #musedchat discussion each Monday evening. Examples are given of how Twitter can help music educators stay up to date with ideas from colleagues, focus on relevant topics, and assist in designing learning experiences that develop 21st century skills in students through the integration of technology when used appropriately.
Section Board as the new Technology (@jguarr) poses a question and then moder- ates a discussion for one hour. Cant make the chat? (True, its easier for folks on the Representative for the next couple of years! East Coast...West Coast chat anyone?) Our colleague Dr. Jeff Morton deserves a Dont worry, there are a variety of ways to special thank you for his service and work participate: as our Bay Section Tech Rep for these last Search on the hashtag #musedchat two years thank you, Dr. Morton! to read thread and discussions. As we approach the beginning of our school Participate and tweet at any time using year, Id like to share with you some ideas #musedchat. about professional development opportu- Find the entire Twitter chat at the nities for music educators utilizing social archived story link and read at your media. As you can imagine, there is simply leisure. a deluge of information at our fingertips at any given second, on any given day during At past conference presentations, I have the week. Question: how might one filter talked about the terms synchronous vs. this data deluge as it relates to PD in my asynchronous. Synchronous means that profession? Fortunately, Twitter can help us were all physically in the same space and do just that. time for teaching/learning. Asynchronous activities can be at any time, and are not Twitter is a social media site. According to dependent on space or time for teaching/ Wikipedia, Twitter is an online social net- learning to take place. Whats great about working service that enables users to send Twitter as a form of professional develop- and read short 140-character messages ment is that you dont have to be in the called tweets. Think of Twitter as a series exact location or time to benefit from your of filters for particular content on the internet colleagues and their ideas! that interests you. My first foray onto Twit- ter was a read-only type of activity where I You may be asking, How will Twitter help could curate my own news feed; world and me be a better teacher for my students? In local news, sports, arts, music education. a report by the College of Education from Walden University, Teachers who are fre- Twitter Chats quent technology users put more emphasis Think of it like a weekly professional devel- on 21st century skills, including accountabil- opment round table for any topic imagin- ity, collaboration, communication, creativity, able. And of course, there is MusicEd chat! critical thinking, ethics, global awareness, #musedchat is an online discussion on innovation, leadership, problem solving, Monday evenings at 8:00 p.m. EST with productivity, and self-direction. music educators from across the country. True, technology can assist us to design Each week the moderator, Joe Guarr, great learning experiences for our students, Summer 2016 Tempo 18 but technology is not a substitute for the Tempo articles. Are there sessions great teaching. According to an April related to music technology that youd 2016 article in EdTechReview, Any learning like to see at the 2017 Bay Section concerning technology should be based Conference? Share your ideas with me! T around the theme and objectives of the Sources: class. The place of technology in pedagogy Introduction. Educators, Technology and 21st is based on various factors and questions Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths. Baltimore, MD: of effectiveness, time saving, increased Walden U, 2010. N. pag. Print. outcomes, etc. Technology and Its Role in 21st Century Education. EdTechReview. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. Take a look at http://musiced.us as a re- source page for Music Education and Technology. There are some cool items of interest here, such as podcasts, and tech reviews, as well as items I reference here in
Large Group Festivals
Greg Conway
W elcome back to another school year
and an exciting year of festivals hosted by registration site. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at any time: gconway@musicathopkins.com. CMEA Bay Section. This will be the second Finally, if you know of a music teacher new year of the new Festival Registration web- to Bay Section, perhaps you could reach site, and we continue to make refinements out to them and share this important festival to allow directors to register as easily and registration information. smoothly as possible. If you did not register for festivals last year Festival registration opens or are teaching at a different school, you will Tuesday, September 6, at 4:00 p.m. need to go to cmeabaysection.org and click on the Festival Registration link, which takes Out of Region registration you to the registration site. Here you will be Monday, September 12, at 4:00 p.m. directed to Create an Account. Once you have created your account you will be able O to register for festivals when registration REGION vs. AREA format for festivals: opens on Tuesday, September 6, at 4:00 p.m. North = Areas I & VII South = Areas V & VIII We have been working hard to secure East = Areas II & III contracts for all of our festivals. The most West = Area VI current list of 2017 Bay Section festivals is Valley = Area IV posted on our website and on our festival Summer 2016 Tempo 19