Education in Music

Mobilize Your Blog!

Theresa White — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:23:02 +0000

As a part of the 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger challenge from Teach42, I have mobilized my blog! I found it quite easy to do! I used a free program called MoFuse. You enter an email address and it creates a mobile version of your site. The address can be posted on your [...]

Promoting Your New School Blog

Theresa White — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:04:06 +0000

I spent the better part of the summer creating a blog for my two buildings and working to see how they could be utilized in the classrooms. I figured our high school site would be interactive; blogging, posting rehearsal tracks, etc. The elementary site would be more of a website for information to parents, posting [...]

30 Days to Being a Better Blogger

Theresa White — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:12:06 +0000

I am enrolling myself in Teach42’s 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger challenge. Each day for 30 days, Steve Dembo posts a new challenge for us to follow in order to better our blogs and ourselves as bloggers. It is quite interesting and has given me some much-needed enthusiasm toward my blog lately! I [...]

Take It All In

Theresa White — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:49:55 +0000

We had a concert last night with my high school program and, as most of you who are educators know, the day after a concert/exam/standardized testing period is exhausting! We spent the morning evaluating the performance with the students, dealing with some department issues we had been having and a few other left-over stresses from [...]

Halloween Poem Podcasts

Theresa White — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:35:14 +0000

Last week, the teacher I team with decided to have the students create Halloween poems with rhythmic percussion sound effects. We used a Zoom H4 recorder to record the compositions as podcasts. This is the first time I have attempted to create podcasts and I am pretty encouraged by it! I think they turned out [...]

Do Independent Learners = Responsible Learners?

Theresa White — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:18:54 +0000

One of my main goals as a teacher is to create independent learners. It is an affective goal for our elementary NCA committee and my personal goal for all of my students. When I was a student, asking a question was looked down upon. “There’s no such thing as a stupid question” was the response, [...]

New experiences

Theresa White — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:00:32 +0000

About 6 weeks ago I was asked to consider participating in a rotation of music directors for a LifeTeen mass program in a parish in our diocese. This parish recently had their LifeTeen music director leave (she followed the priest when he left) and they were looking for a few music directors in the area [...]

Teaching for Honors Choir….and more…

Theresa White — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:48:48 +0000

This past weekend I had the opportunity to take 14 of my high school students to the Region C Honors Choir tryouts for MSVMA (Michigan State Vocal Music Association). They are required to sing (from memory) a medieval, a cappella piece and sight read an 8-measure intermediate exercise after studying it for 30-60 seconds without instructor support. I [...]

Feedburner, Here I Come!

Theresa White — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:00:17 +0000

Hello all! I apologize that I’ve been a little lax on my blogging lately - the school year has begun and, like everyone else, I’m working on getting my stuff together. I’ve recently installed Feedburner on this blog. Would you please be sure that you are subscribed to the feedburner feed? The address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/educationinmusic [...]

Difficulty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Theresa White — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:47:32 +0000

A few weeks ago my husband and I were watching the finale of “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” a show in which unsuspecting people were flown to Japan to compete on a game show. The contest required them to compete in some of the most ridiculous activities which kept the audience completely entertained during [...]