Welcome to IDE611 Collaborative Project for Music Teachers (posted by ~Aja)

Technologies are rarely used in elementary school general music classroom. Our project is designed to facilitate musical instructors integrate varied forms of technologies, such as PowerPoint, Smart Board, or YouTube videos into their lessons in order to strengthen instructional outcomes and promote student curiosity, interest, and engagement.

The members in our team are: April Rando, Ajajielle "Aja" Brown, Yufei “Vivi” Wu, and Bruce Williams Jr.

Goals
There are six main goals to this project:

• First, this project allows student to work on a real world, authenic project which promotes active learning and student engagement.
• Second, this project enables students to work collaboratively with one another as well as with an external client from LeMoyne Elementary School.
• Third, this project will provides students with an opportunity to use web 2.0 technologies, such as a blog and wiki, for the dissemination of information and training materials.
• Fourth, this project will lead to students designing, creating, and posting training materials and videos to project blog site and Youtube.com Web site.
• Fifth, this project will offer recommendations to Syracuse School District music teacher for integrating technology into their lessons plans.
• Sixth, music teachers will have a familiarity with Web 2.0 technologies, specifically, Smartboards, Blogs, and Wikis.

Final Project include
Instructional Material
Blog will be the main instructional material for our project. We are going to update the blog each week with  content on how to use Powerpoint, Smart Board and Youtube.com videos to strengthen instuctional outcomes and learning objectives. Ultimately, we hope to share and reprint the videos on Youtube to instruct teachers how to use those technologies.

Learning Activities
The communication is based on E-mail and Blog comments. We are going to post some instructional articles as well as reprint or share some of the guidance videos to instruct teacher how to use Smart Board and PowerPoint.

Assessment Learning
All the comments will be saved and shown in the blog.