A Paperless Vocal Class and Some Random Thoughts
Posted by ejallen on September 21, 2009
It has been a while since I have posted. The preparations for the New Year, final summer relaxation, the start of school and the belief that I didn’t have much to add to the conversation has kept me away.
Well, I am not sure how much I will add to the conversation, but I am promising here to post more regularly. My goal now is once a week.
One of the brightest spots in my day is my one class. As an admin, I only teach one. It is a vocal music class and I love it. It keeps me in the classroom, which I think benefits any admin. But that is going to be another post. This year, my class room, known as the green room (as you can see) received a smart board. An excellent addition.
When we learn a new song, typically, I would print a ton of lyric sheets for the kids. After all, they need the lyrics. But now I have a projector and smart board. So today I was ready.
When the students arrived, I had the lyrics to a new song on the board. Put them in two columns so they would all be there. I said “Hey guys, is that readable?” and they said an enthusiastic “Yes!”
So I moved my keyboard slightly to one side so that I wouldn’t block their view while I was playing and we started to learn the song. And one of them said “the green room just got greener.” And so it has. A paperless vocal class. It’s a start.
September 27th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Isn’t it wonderful that our music classes are leading the paperless trail! In addition to this green initiative, our musical director, Nick C, has also begun using using Google docs to replace the piles of paper documents he used to evaluate his instrumental students. I always thought that music made people smarter!
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