Edpsy 387 Major project

Om-line Music Technology Workshop

by

Lisa Weng

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The statement of the problem
Despite the great growth in the number of classroom computers and the increased budget of educational technology, research on technology in teacher education indicate that technology-assisted music instruction are not being fully utilized by the majority of music teachers. According to the study that done by Reese and Riminigton in 2000, The results of this study show that only on-third of teachers and their students use some kind of music software at school or home. Among these music software users, only one fourth use software of music computer-assisted instruction in music. Thus, in order to help music teachers (both preseracive teachers and in-service teachers) to improve their technology skills, an on-line music education technology workshop is needed
The purpose of the study
The purpose of this study is to familiarize music teachers with new technologies available in music instruction and possible applications of these technologies.
Evaluation: Interview

After interviewing with twelve people who visit this website, the selected comments are listed as follows:

Advantages:

The structure of homepage is very good, because the paths connecting subjects are organized very well.


Thanks--- I learned from the website

This homepage provides a convenient mean to allow people to understand the objectives of musical educators by

computer technology.

The page is organized. It is easy for visiters to read the page.

I like the music on this page. Seldom hear such classic music on the

It provides several tutorial such as Sibelius tutorial, Freestyle Software tutorial etc. The procedure is step by
step and easy to follow.

It provides a nice example and let the audiance to listen the music.

The color of the website is very clear for audiance to read. It lets the reader feel very comfortable.

The object of this website is very clearly addressed on the Homepage and the Project Report.

The succinct format of the design of this website, covering very practical software programs of music technology and the useful links, is the strength of this websit   

Disadvantages:

A few statements such as “in order to achieve different pedagogic …” could be further explained if you would think it is important information, or it could cause some confusion for readers. I think mostly they are important information, so other readers would be interested in further information as I did.
It needs provide detail information for those who would like to listen music example. For example, if
someone in their computers and it does not have the software to support. What should they do in order to listen the music?

The example is only one for each tutorial

Suggestions:

In the Project Report, you could include credentials of the two educators you mentioned--- that would make the Statement of the Problem stronger (authoritative).

You may point out the benefit of each Teaching Strategy: What will students eventually benefit from those strategies that they my not benefit from music instruction without technology assistance. Therefore, the object of your website would be strengthened.

You may put some more detailed information (links) in such as “contact” (or “questions?”), real examples of the strategies, etc. That would make the Workshop even more productive.

It would be nicer if they give more examples to the audiance.

You can make the music longer or keep it lasting.

Adding other colors to make homepage more energetic.
Future plans
More music software tutorials and examples will be provided on this wesite