Happy 2012! I have been away from blogging since September. I’m finding a moment on this snowy morning to reflect (and remember how to use WP interface!). The past four months have been packed with performances, student projects, stories, challenges, and relationship-building conversations. Today’s post will focus on the conversations I have been having with… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
This morning I experienced something totally unexpected. It made me , it made me think; it filled my heart with such joy to be a teacher. A fourth grade student gently knocked on my door and brought this to me on behalf of his class: Every year around 9/11, our school has a gathering around… [Read more…]
September 1, 2011
Happy New School Year! It is with great pleasure to {finally} publish the September edition of Music Education Blog Carnival here. I want to thank many teachers who submitted great posts. Their thoughts, recommendations, and philosophies, I believe, stretch our own thinking. For those of you who are beginning a new school year, I want… [Read more…]
August 8, 2011
To Music Teachers, Performers, Students, Parents, Music Specialists: I am excited to host the Music Education Blog Carnival for September, 2011! The Blog Carnival was created and is maintained by Dr. Joseph Pisano of MusTech.net in order to promote the great works being done by Music Education Bloggers across the Internet. During the school year, many music… [Read more…]
July 12, 2011
And Design a Deeper Learning Environment The following post has been featured in the July edition of VIA, an ezine dedicated for arts integration. I’m honored to have been contacted by VIA’s editor, Susan Riley, who has asked me to write a post focusing on creativity and the arts technique for the classroom teachers. Check out… [Read more…]
July 3, 2011
I was attending the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference for the first time past week. I had no idea how big this conference was before my arrival. To tell you the truth, with the exception of my presentation, I was not at all prepared for its enormous everything. With 12K+ attendees and exhibitors… [Read more…]
April 7, 2011
I was excited all day. Feeling like a little kid waiting for a beautifully wrapped big present, I waited for the premier of Sleep, Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 2.0 project. You see, I wasn’t waiting for the virtual choir video as an audience, I was waiting for all of my fellow choir members. I had… [Read more…]
April 7, 2011
I just watched Kevin Spacey on Hardball (msnbc.com). It doesn’t matter what political side you are on. The arts and culture are should be rights of all Americans to have and to protect. As Spacey says in this segment, it’s not about who hates the arts (the act of cutting budget on programs such as… [Read more…]
April 2, 2011
I heart my iPhone! I use it for just about everything - (ironically) with the exception of making phone calls (because I hardly ever phone people). So when @aforgrave tweeted this to me and 4 others, I’m thinking of an April iPhone-Pic-a-Day theme. Who’s in? he got my attention. I’ve been learning to use whatever… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
Just saw this tweet from @tedtalks about Virtual Choir 2.0. Watch this video and get a glimpse of Eric Whitacre’s Sleep sung by 2000 voices! If you read my first post about VC, you’d be wondering if I participated for the second project. The answer is yes! The full video should be coming out on… [Read more…]
January 21, 2012
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