Music Technologies (Interactivity 3)

 Normally, I hate group projects because I usually end up doing most of the work and put everyones' name on the finished result. However, the people in my group amazed me at how proficient they all were together. The spreadsheet was already made and shared before I had a chance to do anything myself and there were so many contributions on the spreadsheet. I also thought that the way we could share the spreadsheet through google accounts was really neat! As far as the technologies listed, my mind is in awe. There are so many that allow music education to be brought to new levels, and most of the ones listed, I've never heard of, or have heard of but have never used. I think this list can definitely have an impact in our CURR 314 class because many of these technologies can be used for assessment purposes. For example, someone put music theory websites on our document and that may be one way to assess what students are taking from a theory class. Max/MSP is also a great program mentioned because you can create almost anything you want if you're advanced enough with it. Creating a virtual assessment tool is completely within the means of this program if you're willing to be creative and put in enough time. As far as how it can help with our READ 411 class, well that's a tough one! I am honestly unsure of how I would use these technologies to help students become better readers in a literal sense, however, taking the READ-411 class has made me realize that identifying struggles with reading actual text is extremely similar to identifying struggles with reading music. One example (and there are many) I can think of is how a struggling reader of text will not use context clues to make inferences about a text. This made me think of how a struggling reader of music may struggle to read or play something because they are unaware or unfamiliar with a key or scale, therefore they are prone to making more mistakes since music is based off of scales/keys. So, although it may be a stretch from what the assignment was actually asking, I think using the strategies we learned in Read-411 can help us identify struggling readers of music and most of these technologies can assist us with fixing those struggles (any of the music notating softwares, the music theory websites, Max/MSP, etc.). The possibilities are endless!