Interactive Whiteboards In Music Online Course
About this Course
This course will explore ways in which you can take advantage of your IWB to enhance your delivery of music content to students by integrating audio, notation, and video.
Learn how to adapt and rethink your current activities without having to re-write your curriculum. Discover why it’s not about finding a one-size-fits-all software program and why IWBs are not just for showing Youtube videos (!).
Course Format
This course is available when you join the Midnight Music Community. Membership to the Midnight Music Community gives you access to this course, and 11 other online courses, plus lesson plans, help and advice.
Course Outline
The Interactive Whiteboards in the Music Classroom course will cover a range of skills, including the following:
- How to incorporate your IWB into your teaching
- Replacing your regular whiteboard tasks with an IWB
- IWB quote 1
- Types of software programs that work well on the board
- Finding specially designed software
Free IWB Software Resources and How To Use Them:
- The Music Interactive: note reading, rhythmic dictation, ear-training, boomwhackers
- Triptico: easy adaptable text-based activities and games
- Smartboard Music: animated ear-training games
Tips for using software you already own:
- Sibelius
- GarageBand/Acid/Mixcraft
- Auralia and Musition
- And more
- What can the software do and why should you use it?
- It’s Powerpoint on steroids
- Draw with pens
- Convert handwriting into typed words and shapes
- Draw shapes and lines
- Incorporate images, links and audio
- Creating a lasting unit of work that you can use over and over again:
Using Peter and the Wolf as an example, we’ll create a multimedia file that incorporates the following:
- Importing an image
- Changing background colour
- Including text information about the composer and work
- Linking to a website with further information
- Incorporating notation
- Attaching audio files so you never have to search for a CD again
The skills learnt can be adapted for any unit of work you might be doing with your students: 12 Bar Blues, Instruments of the Orchestra, Carnival of the Animals and more.
- Music literacy activities
- Rhythmic and melodic dictation
- Custom-made stave lines
- Using images as noteheads and creating an infinite supply
- Stick notation activities
- Exciting ways to present word definitions
- Making soundscapes
- Presenting score analysis and annotation
- Creating and using class ensemble resources
- Teaching song lyrics in new ways
- Places to find ready-made IWB resource files
- NY Phil Kidzone music games
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra music games
- Tone Matrix
- Incredibox
- Virtual instruments (keyboard, gamelan, drums)
Overview of software designed for IWB:
- O-Generator
- Jellybeans 3
- Bushfire Press
- Fun Music Company
*Midnight Music reserves the right to alter course content when necessary.