Archive for June, 2010

savetoDISC is proud to promote the release of  the second in the Cambridge Scholars Press Meaningful Music making for life book Series: Navigating Music and Sound Education edited by Julie Ballantyne and Brydie Leigh Bartleet.

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Navigating Music and Sound Education has been specifically written for pre-service teachers who are studying music education curriculum or pedagogy subjects. It features the voices of leading international academics in the field to illuminate issues of importance in preparing pre-service teacher education students. The engaging examples provided in each chapter are drawn from real-life educational settings, and enable readers to critically explore the perspectives presented by the authors and consider the application of such perspectives in their future practice.

“We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!” —Professor Graham F. Welch, University of London; President, International Society of Music Education

“Navigating Music and Sound Education draws together a range of issues increasingly acknowledged to be at the basis of reflective and effective music learning and teaching: social settings, cultural dimensions, gender, indigeneity, varying cognitive approaches, inter-disciplinary connections, technology, types of learning, and creativity. It opens up areas of pedagogy that go beyond classroom methodology to acknowledge student individuality and encourage music learning and teaching grounded in the reality of students’ musical and social lives. It will be invaluable for those training to become educators and for teachers already in the field.”
—Associate Professor Peter Dunbar-Hall, University of Sydney

“This book brings an important contribution to music teacher education as it challenges the readers to rethink their paradigms of music education. It highlights the importance of preparing a reflective teacher, autonomous, creative and conscious of the multifaceted and multicultural locus in which they will work. The book also draws on the importance for music teachers to consider the context in which they work, and establish a dialog between local musical traditions, informal music practices and global trends of music teaching and learning. Most importantly, all chapters are in one way or another derived from research carried out on specific areas, thus stressing the importance of the research informed practice in music education.” —Professor Liane Hentschke, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; International Society of Music Education Immediate Past President

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The Network Jamming team were invited to do a presentation of jam2jam as part of the Digital Arts Playground sessions at the annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education in Denver, Colorado. Andrew Brown did a presentation via skype at the conference on June 29 and locally the participants had a cluster of computers to jam with. The presentation was organised by Bill Bauer, and so a shout out to him for his interest and assistance. Check out videos and subscribe to our new jam2 jam Video youtube site.

We will have interactive demos on Tuesday 29th June 2010. Those currently scheduled are:
Tuesday 29th June, 10:00 Wacom Tablets (Stuart Kaiser)
Tuesday, 29th June 11:00, Frames (Lindie Kolk, Tech4Learning)
Tuesday, 29th June 1:00, Pixie (Lindie Kolk, Tech4Learning)
Tuesday, 29th June 2:00 HyperStudio (Roger Wagner)
Tuesday, 29th June 3:00 Jam2Jam (Skyped from Australia, Bill Bauer)

Dr Andrew Brown Skype presentation live from Brisbane, Australia
Tuesday,29th June 3:30 ArtRage (Uwe Maurer)

Free school holidays activity. Sessions for young people 4-8 years old & 9-12 years old. Book now Tues 29 &  Wed 30 June 2 sessions 11- 11-30  & 1- 1-30.

Network Jamming researcher John Ong worked with Daniel Spirovski to provide hundreds of young people with a jam2jam experiences. Look here over the next week to see videos of their performances on our new Youtube channel.