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Studying Music Online
by Berkleemusic Staff
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Orchestral Music Production
by Ben Newhouse
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The Quest for Good Guitar Tone
by Thaddeus Hogarth
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Music Publishing & Songwriting
by Eric Beall

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Music Business and Trend-Mongering
by Mike King

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Future Of Music
by David Kusek

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Producing with Pro Tools
by Dave Franz

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Music Production
by Erik Hawkins

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Composing with Live
by Loudon Stearns

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Sound from a Virtual Planet
by Michael Bierylo

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Orchestral Music Production
by Ben Newhouse

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jeanine_cowen

Music for Games, Films, and other Visuals
by Jeanine Cowen

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Writing about Music
by Jonathan Feist

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Career Songwriter
by Andrea Stolpe

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The Quest for Good Guitar Tone
by Thaddeus Hogarth

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Music, Education, and Technology
by Debbie Cavalier

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Music Smarts
by Mr. Bonzai

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Making the Most of Notation Software
by Tom Rudolph

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The Writer’s Corner
by Jerry Gates

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Berkleemusic

Berkleemusic News
by Berkleemusic Staff

Advisors

Studying Music Online
by Berkleemusic Staff

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UCEA Award for Best Online Learning Course — from Online Learning Update by Ray Schroeder

The University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) has awarded Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Boston’s Berklee College of Music, with its 2010 Best Online College Course Award for Professor Stephen Webber’s Music Production Analysis course. This is the Berkleemusic’s sixth national award, having received the honor each year since 2005. The award is the highest recognition possible for online curriculum from UCEA, a membership association that promotes excellence in continuing higher education. The competition judges courses from all colleges and universities nationwide, representing all disciplines.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/berkleemusic/ucea-award/prweb4004944.htm

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Tips for teaching with blogs — Jason Rhode

I recently gave a talk at the UIC e-Teaching Symposium sharing practical tips for teaching with blogs. Here’s the video from the session recorded on a Flip HD pocket video camera along with the interactive handout in the form of a blog at uicblogs.blogspot.com. The Flip HD automatically stopped recording after 1 hour, so unfortunately the archive is missing the final 30 mins. of the talk

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Blog ideas — from Dawn Corley

Blog ideas — from Dawn Corley

Ideas to incorporate the use of blogs with student learning
You can start a class blog with students to…

  • post class-related information such as calendars, events, homework assignments and other pertinent class information
  • post assignments based on literature readings and have students respond on their own blogs, creating a kind of portfolio of their work
  • communicate with parents if you are teaching elementary school students
  • post prompts for writing
  • provide examples of classwork, vocabulary activities, or grammar games
  • provide online readings for your students to read and react to
  • gather and organize Internet resources for a specific course, providing links to appropriate sites and annotating the links as to what is relevant about them
  • post photos and comment on class activities
  • invite student comments or postings on issues in order to give them a writing voice
  • publish examples of good student writing done in class
  • show case student art, poetry, and creative stories
  • create a dynamic teaching site, posting not only class-related information, but also activities, discussion topics, links to additional information about topics they are studying in class, and readings to inspire learning
  • create a literature circle
  • create an online book club
  • make use of the commenting feature to have students publish messages on topics being used to develop language skills
  • ask students to create their own individual course blogs, where they can post their own ideas, reactions and written work
  • post tasks to carry out project-based learning tasks with students
  • build a class newsletter, using student-written articles and photos they take
  • link your class with another class somewhere else in the world

You can encourage your students (either on your blog using the comments feature or on their own blogs) to blog…

  • their reactions to thought-provoking questions
  • their reactions to photos you post
  • journal entries
  • results of surveys they carry out as part of a class unit
  • share their ideas and opinions about topics discussed in class

You can have your students create their own blogs to…

  • learn how to blog
  • complete class writing assignments
  • create an ongoing portfolio of samples of their writing
  • express their opinions on topics you are studying in class
  • write comments, opinions, or questions on daily news items or issues of interest
  • discuss activities they did in class and tell what they think about them (You, the teacher, can learn a lot this way!)
  • write about class topics, using newly-learned vocabulary words and idioms
  • showcase their best writing pieces

You can also ask your class to create a shared blog to…

  • complete project work in small groups, assigning each group a different task
  • showcase products of project-based learning
  • complete a WebQuest
  • Share ideas you have for using blogs in education

As a teacher, you might want to use a blog as a reflective journal to…

  • reflect on your teaching experiences
  • keep a log of teacher-training experiences
  • write a description of a specific teaching unit
  • describe what worked for you in the classroom or what didn’t work
  • provide some teaching tips for other teachers
  • write about something you learned from another teacher
  • explain teaching insights you gain from what happens in your classes
  • share ideas for teaching activities or language games to use in the classroom
  • provide some how-to’s on using specific technology in the class, describing how you used this technology in your own class
  • explore important teaching and learning issues

For more foundational information, see:
What’s a blog?

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Top 13 LMS (and learning technology) blogs — from UpsideLearning.com by Amit Gautam

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More on reflective journals — from Learning Objects by Nancy Rubin

Reflective ‘writing’ is a series of ‘writings’ in response to experiences & events that may also contains reflections on what took place, express emotions, understandings & conclusions, lessons learned or action plans. Often called a “Journal Entry”. You don’t have to be a great writer, perfect speller, or creative thinker to keep a personal journal. Just regularly write down your experiences and thoughts. Here is a great video by Keuka College on the effectiveness of reflecting.

Click here to download an Academic Tip Sheet on Blogs and Journals (PDF) from Edith Cowan University.

Some Journal Prompts:

  • Today I explored……………. and found………………..
  • I think it is important to know about………..because…
  • This new learning will affect me in the following ways…
  • Today I discovered………. and…..
  • With the learning I did today I will be able to…
  • The most challenging thing I did today was…
  • Today I found out…
  • I want to know more about … and I will find out more by firstly…………….. then ………….. and perhaps…
  • Today I asked… and discovered…
  • The work we did today built on the work we did …..(insert time)….. in that it…(explain how) …………..,
  • At the end of today I am still uncertain about… I get the bit about… but need to clarify the bit about…
  • I smiled today when…
  • Today I explored……. and feel……..
  • more
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Our Favorite Game Design Blogs — from Upside Learning Blog by Abhijit Kadle

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Blogging then and now — from bloggingtips.com by Sharon Hurley Hall

“If you were starting a new blog today what’s the first thing you would do? I’ve just started a new blog and I started thinking about the difference between my first blog and this one. Here are some of the things I looked at…”

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Top international exchange & experience blogs

  

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Technology and learning disconnect — from NITLE by Rebecca Davis

“So what is it that I, these isolated faculty members, and indeed the rest of NITLE believe about technology for teaching and learning?  Technology can be most powerful when used to expand the classroom, by linking students to the world, or to break down the barriers keeping learning inside the classroom, by encouraging students to think and learn in the field.  Like AAC&U we believe in integrative learning, a linking between individual courses, and between courses and the extracurricular world.  We believe that technology can facilitate that integration and encourage reflection on it, e.g., when a student blogs a discovery outside of class that is relevant to the topic being studied or reflects on a portfolio of work that represents what they have learned across four years of college.  As strong believers in liberal arts colleges, we privilege face to face time for the interaction it allows between students, faculty, and other students.  Rather than hiding behind a PowerPoint presentation, faculty should collaborate with students and encourage them to work with each other to develop their own learning.  Outside of the classroom, technologies should continue that collaborative learning and cultivate a desire to learn everywhere, not just when in class.”

Everything you ever wanted to know about the blogosphere in one handy diagram — from the nextweb.com
Interesting facts via this wonderful infographic from Intact:

  • 133,000,000 million blogs
  • 35% of Journalists are now Bloggers
  • 48% of Bloggers are in the US
  • 66% of bloggers are males
  • 1/4 earn $100k+ a year
  • Aside from “personal musings”, technology bloggers are the most prominent
  • 75% of bloggers are college graduates

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About The Blogosphere in One Handy Diagram

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