Music+&+Art

=Technology Day: Music and Art=

Garageband/Podcasting Computers connected to the Internet, equipped with Quicktime or Windows Media Player MP3 & Internet Public Library: @http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/ren/index.html INFOhio
 * Technology**
 * The Art Collection
 * World Book

__7th Grade Music__ Describe how events during various historical periods have influenced the development of music.
 * Curriculum Standard**s
 * Recognize and identify historical and cultural contexts (e.g., time and place of a music event) that have influenced music.

__7th Grade Art__ Historical, Cultural and Social Contexts
 * Select and organize artworks from the same historical period and analyze the relationships between the works.

Valuing the Arts/Aesthetic Reflection
 * Observe selected artworks and describe the visual features and sensory qualities that evoke feelings and emotions.

In conjunction with their studies of the Renaissance in Social Studies, students will research music and art pieces from the era. They will listen to MP3s available in the Internet Public Library's Music History 102 Special Collection and view artwork from the period in INFOhio's The Art Collection. Working with a partner, students will select two artists and two musicians from the Renaissance to feature in a five to seven minute enhanced podcast they will create using Garageband. Student podcasts should include:
 * Description**
 * A brief introduction of the Renaissance (specifically noting the significance in the arts)
 * A brief introduction of two musicians from the era
 * Compare and contrast of the two musicians' work
 * A brief introduction of two artists from the era
 * Compare and contrast of the two musicians' work
 * Credit given to sources utilized for creation of the podcast
 * Intro, background and outro music in the podcast should be appropriate for the time period
 * Images relevant to the speaking points

[|Riddle, J. (2010). Podcasting in the Classroom: A Sound Success.] //MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, 17(1)//, 23-26. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.
 * Supporting Research**

This article gives a brief chronology of podcasting and its effective use in in schools. It is noted that podasting "...calls for editing, oral reading, and presentation skills," which makes it a valuable technology for the classroom. According to the author, the evolution of the successful use of podcasts in schools has gone from teacher created podcasts to enhance learning, to student created content via podcasts and now even a new version of podcasting deemed "blogcasting." The article provides examples of the successful use of student created podcasts in one elementary school and details the use of a more interactive version, "blogcasting," being used by some foreign language teachers that gives students the ability to respond to each others podcast episodes in audio form.

Podcasting would still be considered new and innovative, though there are definitely tried and true uses of them. While podcasting may not be seen in every classroom and it has only been around since 2003 in education, they are being used more and more in the classroom. Podcasting, as it is used in this activity, is a more tried and true utilization of this new and innovative technology considering the very new use of them described in the article above.
 * Tried & True (TT) or New & Innovative (NI)**

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