Music



Area || Curriculum Standard(s) || Technology || Description || Supporting Resource || Tried and True (TT) or New and Innovative (NI) ||
 * Content
 * Music || 4. Identify, listen and respond to music of different composers.

5. Recognize and describe ways that music serves as an expression in regional cultures. || # LCD Projector
 * 1) Internet connection
 * 2) Skype: program which can be downloaded to school computer network
 * 3) Computer with internet connection
 * 4) SmartBoard which will serve as projection screen
 * 5) Speakers/Microphones || Students will practice and prepare songs with a similar school district within the state of Ohio. In doing so, they will learn about how music is taught and appreciated in different regions of Ohio. Teachers will teach in a cooperative environment despite their distance.


 * During the lesson, students will:**
 * Listen to the opposite class sing the same songs as their own class
 * Provide critiques and ideas to fellow classmates
 * Practice songs together
 * Recognize and appreciate different regional characteristics || In the //Student Library Journal//, Carolyn Foote tells how a Language Arts classroom within a school uses Skype to connect students with authors for book discussion. She details of how the school library media specialist, along with the classroom teacher, has set up skype accounts in advance of the lesson.



In the March 2007 edition of //Technology & Learning//, Jeffrey Branzberg discusses the cost advantages of using the free skype program within schools. One such benefit he says is the ability for students to connect to one another through geographic barriers. || This lesson and implementation of technology would surely be considered both new and innovative. Many schools might hesitate to integrate this technology into their school due to various security concerns with the relatively new VoIP program Skype. However, the low costs of this technology coupled with the extremely beneficial prospects should equal a win win situation for school districts. ||