My name is Sean McDonald, i am currently a college student at Texas A&M-Commerce. I am studying music education, although i wish to be a performer before i start teaching. I am creating this blog because i would like to pass my educational technology course this semester, and the assignment this week is to make a blog. But who knows i might like this whole blogging thing ^_^
As a future music educator, i feel that technology has a very few purposes in my classroom. As a choir director the only technology i could see myself needing to use is maybe recording devices, so that the kids can hear the product of their hard work. And, now to be realistic, i will more than likely be teaching a music theory or even a music history/appreciation class to and, while i would never use any technology besides an electric keyboard in music theory, for music history/appreciation i would use many PowerPoint to show the students how the other arts of each time period effected music.
My goals for this class are to pass, but also to learn things about technology that i didn't already know. The lessons i am most excited about are the podcasting, copyrights, and eportfolio lessons. I have always kinda wanted to start a podcast, i don't know what it would be about but that something to think about. Also knowing how to make podcasts would be very helpful in a university classroom, because you could just have each student subscribe to your podcast and put you lectors online for the students to listen to.
Well that's Post #1
Signing off,
Sean McDonald
P.S: For all the other nerds out there i know that i spelled Odin wrong, its on purpose. I had to spell it that was because Odin was already taken.
You Stay Classy Asgard!!
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