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Concept, graphics, idea from Daniel S. Christian:
But free for your taking and implementing!

What:

Choir Practice: A mobile-based method of practicing one’s part

Features

The ability for the choir member to go directly to measure ____
The ability for the choir member to highlight measures ____ through ____ (like highlighting text in Microsoft Word), then click on the play button to loop through those measures
One could speed up a song up or slow it down (without affecting pitch)
The application would allow for all of the vocal parts to begin playing upon downloading a pre-packaged song or the application could always start playing with a certain part (i.e. 1st or 2nd soprano, alto, tenor, or bass)
The musical notes could be the same color or one could choose to display the notes in different colors
Bonus features might include a video of a director directing this song

Why:

This type of thing would be a great cross-disciplinary assignment for your institution’s curriculum — Music and Computer Science come to mind for this application
Your institution could sell this application on Apple’s App Store to develop a new revenue stream
Your choirs could produce the packaged songs / tracks
Plus, such an app would help choir members learn their parts — 24x7x365 — in the car, on the road, in the gym, etc.
Enhances one’s ability to listen to other parts as well
Aids your marketing departments as you point to this as a solid deliverable from your programs
Creates “study aids” for your own school’s choirs/students as well as for choirs at smaller churches and institutions (worldwide)
Helps those choir members who don’t have access to a piano or don’t know how to play a piano

Have fun whomever takes this idea and runs with it! The choirs of the world will appreciate you — and so will their audiences! 🙂

Along these lines…another win-win here includes:

That students in the future (I hope) will be able to choose from a multitude of potential roles when presented with multi-disciplinary projects/assignments/courses:

Vocalists, pianists, and other type of musicians
Composers
Programmers
Graphic artists
Videographers / video editors
Audio specialists
Writers
Project Managers
Actresses/Actors
etc.

As such, students could:

Learn to appreciate other disciplines
Participate in/contribute to projects that could be published on the web
Exercise their creativity
Practice being innovative

Daniel Christian

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White House Summit touches on K-12, college link

On 10/08/2010, in colleges, community colleges, curriculum, dangers of the status quo, education reform, expectations, future of higher education, game-changing environment, generational differences, higher education, K-12 related, student-related, United States, by Daniel Christian

White House Summit touches on K-12, college link — from edweek.org by Caralee Adams

Buoyed by White House attention to the importance—and needs—of community colleges, some in the K-12 community are waiting to see if that spotlight will generate momentum for improved college readiness and better alignment of high schools with higher education.

This week’s White House Community College Summit was largely a symbolic event drawing about 150 leaders in education, business, and philanthropy and aimed at focusing attention on what is often labeled an undervalued sector of higher education.

But while the summit produced no big policy recommendations, the issues of high school preparation and college access hovered in the background as participants broke up into working groups after opening remarks by President Barack Obama.

More here…

From DSC:
Some might look at what I cover in the Learning Ecosystem blog and comment, “What the heck is he doing? He can’t know everything about the teaching and learning worlds within the K-12, college, and the corporate training spaces!” And they would be right. But I don’t base my work here on myself. As a regular follower of this blog would know, I look to the expertise of others. While I will often interject my own thoughts and contributions here, I try to aggregate the valuable experiences and insights of others.

Along these lines, I want to interject that those of us in higher ed need to be very aware of what’s happening in K-12. Students’ expectations are the key items to note here. Graduates from high school will come to our doors (physical and virtual) with a set of expectations and skill sets. To me, these expectations seem to be changing. We must meet them where they are at.

So this item caught my attention. More later…

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What do we need?

On 08/17/2010, in 21st century, change, changing business models, curriculum, education reform, education technology, leadership, professional development, by Daniel Christian

What do we need? — from weblogg-ed.com by Will Richardson

So I’m asking for a little crowdsourcing feedback for a chapter I’m writing. I’m trying to frame out all the things that ideally need to be in place for an existing school to make the transition to one that provides a more relevant learning experience for kids in the context of the social online technologies that are disrupting the current model. Call it School 2.0, a 21st Centuryized School, or something else, but I’m wondering what qualities or conditions should we be working toward in order to successfully make a transition like that?

Here’s what I’ve been thinking (in no particular order in terms of the big buckets):

From DSC:
Will provides a nice list of areas/items that need addressing…and asks for further feedback here.

Tagged with: 21st century • change • curriculum • education • education reform • educational technology • K-12 • leadership • professional development

Colleges and the Common Core

On 07/19/2010, in colleges, community colleges, curriculum, K-12 related, universities, by Daniel Christian

Colleges and the Common Core — InsideHigherEd.com

MINNEAPOLIS — For years, educators and policy makers have been talking about the need to better align K-12 and higher education, so that students coming out of high school have the skills and knowledge they need to do college-level work (and, not unimportantly, to reduce the need for remediation once students are in college).

The establishment of common core standards for high school graduates is of course first and foremost a matter of concern for elementary and secondary school officials, and the creation of the standards is barely on the radar screen of many college administrators and professors. And yet it is clear that the standards will be truly meaningful and useful only if they are fully embraced by higher education.

Only if colleges align their own admissions and placement policies with the common core standards (and agree to use the common assessments that are likely to be developed to gauge mastery of the standards) will high school students and their schools know what to shoot for, Lingenfelter and Wilhoit said. And only if colleges of education begin to reframe their curriculums and practices for training teachers and school administrators and their professional development programs for working teachers in response to the standards will schools have the future work force to carry out the standards.

Tagged with: colleges • community college • curriculum • K-12 • universities

Multimedia, Technology Shine in Educational Product Awards — Educational Publishing

On 06/19/2010, in curriculum, education technology, K-12 related, multimedia, pedagogy, publishing, by Daniel Christian

Multimedia, Technology Shine in Educational Product Awards — Educational Publishing [the official blog of the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)]

Today’s kids are growing up in a world where technology is ubiquitous and connectivity is almost constant. Companies responsible for creating the tools with which these “digital natives” learn face the tall order of making kids’ lives inside the classroom more like their lives outside the classroom. By incorporating technology and multimedia into their products, this year’s finalists in the AEP Awards program do just that, exemplifying the quality and innovation that can be achieved when thinking in terms of the 21st Century classroom.

Tagged with: curriculum • educational technology • K-12 • multimedia • pedagogy • publishing

2010 Distinguished Achievement Award Winners — aepweb.org

On 06/19/2010, in curriculum, education technology, publishing, by Daniel Christian

2010 Distinguished Achievement Award Winners — aepweb.org

Administrative Tools
ADULT
Instruction Planner & Curriculum Mapper 2010
Collaborative Learning Inc.

9-12
Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
Livescribe

K-5
Orchard Software
Orchard Learning, Inc.

Alignment Tools
9-12
Inspiration 9
Inspiration Software

6-8
Inspiration 9
Inspiration Software

Assessment Tools
ADULT
ePath Knowledge – Assess
Peoples Education

9-12
RAPS 360
MindPlay Software Company

6-8
WriteToLearn 5.3
Pearson

K-5
AVerVision 355AF Document Camera and AVerPen
AVerMedia Information, Inc.

Educational Toys and Games
9-12
Life Finances
4t Nox

6-8
TIE – Totally Immersive Education
Emantras

PRESCHOOL
PBS KIDS PLAY!
PBS

Portals
9-12
Discovery Education streaming Plus
Discovery Education

Social Media
ADULT
edWeb.net
edWeb.net

9-12
School Town
School Town

6-8
ClassChatterLive
ClassChatter.com LLC

Websites
ADULT
The Outdoor Foundation Mentor Toolkit
Topics Education Group

9-12
ARKive: Images of Life on Earth
Wildscreen USA

6-8
Edgar Allan Poe
Weekly Reader

K-5
The Electric Company Web site
Sesame Workshop

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Infowhelm & Information Fluency — from 21st Century Fluency Project

On 06/11/2010, in 21st century, change, curriculum, K-12 related, leadership, legislatures / government / legal, policy, by Daniel Christian

Resource from Educational Origami

Also see:

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New! My recommendations for higher education as well as for K-12

On 05/01/2010, in colleges, community colleges, curriculum, higher education, policy, universities, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: colleges • community college • curriculum • future of higher education • higher education • K-12 • policy

The big questions: Now what? — from weblogg-ed

On 03/24/2010, in change, curriculum, game-changing environment, K-12 related, leadership, passions, policy, strategy, teachers, by Daniel Christian

The big questions: Now what? — from weblogg-ed

So as of today, 220 of you were kind enough to vote on what you thought were the 10 most important questions from the list that we generated at Educon. Here are the “winners” at the moment:

How do we support the changing role of teacher? 116
What is the role of the teacher? 110
How do we help students discover their passions? 110
What is the essential learning that schools impart to students? 109
What is the purpose of school? 102
How do we adapt our curriculum to the technologies that kids are already using? 100
What does and educated person look like today? 97
How do we change policy to support more flexible time and place learning? 97
What are the essential practices of teachers in a system where students are learning outside of school? 92
How do we ensure those without privilege have equal access to quality education and opportunity? 92

And here were the next three that didn’t quite make the cut:

What is preventing us from being adaptable to change? 79
How do you validate or evaluate informal learning? 77
How do we measure or assess the effectiveness of individualized self-directed learning outside of school? 68

Tagged with: change • curriculum • game-changing environment • K-12 • passions • policy

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