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Importance of Assessment Talk
How do we move students from being mere passive recipients of grades to becoming active, empowered participants in the assessment process? This question at the heart of a recent post by Tania Lattanzio,...
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Hi Jim, Thank you for your patient reply. I'm wonderring, If the piece selected for Section 3: Performance Adaptation have to be a piece that the student has studied in Section 1? For example, in the Section 1 research component...
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Hi Anton and Jim, You might want to add the BBC Sound Archive to the above public domain list. https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ Kindly, Renato
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Hi Jessica, On page 35 of the Music Subject Guide, it states: "For music technology composing, all parts must be MIDI entered, or performed and recorded, by the student. Sampled parts and drum loops are only acceptable if the teacher...
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Site authorDear Renato, Thank you so much for your input. Yes, I agree that sound effects can play an important part in the creation of any music, but particularly in music technology. I have added your suggestion to the public domain...
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