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Anton

Getting Ahead with Creating

Dear Hildy, Thanks for accessing the "Getting Ahead" pages - I hope that they prove useful for you and your students. I have made this now accessible for students (and in fact free, as are all the others). My apologies for...

Hildy

Getting Ahead with Creating

Hi. I would like to assign this page to my students but it says it is a teacher only page. Is this how it should be?

Anton

Experimenting with Music - Overview & Lessons

Dear Gerardo, Welcome to the DP music course. I hope that the materials here are helping you to navigate your way through the course and assisting you in making better sense of the requirements. Let me see if I can address...

Gerardo

Experimenting with Music - Overview & Lessons

Thank you for sharing this. I am new with the DP music course, and still working on clarifying some aspects on this particular portfolio. I have a few questions: Can students choose Global contexts fro the whole portfolio? Or do...

Anton

CMM - Getting Started with Research

Hey Paul, Thanks for your input here. For each of the teaching-generated samples here, I have added a "SINGULAR ROLE" to make this clear. You are absolutely right that it is essential that students indicate which...

Paul

CMM - Getting Started with Research

Sample 5 does not seem to have a focus on a specific role -- either performing or creating. Is this intended?

Jim

Experimenting - Sample 1 (Grade 6, May 2024)

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for this post. Yes, your understanding of the distinction between performing as an explorer and performing as an experimenter sounds good. In fact, I like your initial prompting questions: "How did they...?" for exploring...

Jonathan

Experimenting - Sample 1 (Grade 6, May 2024)

Jim, thank you for your detailed response. In regards to the Performer's role, I'm understanding the following: Exploring asks, "How did they...?" - The product of exploring is an easily recognizable derivative of the source...

Anton

Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) / MTech

Hey David, Thank you so much for your comments here. Yes, I am happy to include TunePad. I like how it has the coding options offered as well, which will help students see the bigger picture. My best regards, Anton

David

Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) / MTech

Thanks for the list. Under music technology, you could include tune pad. Python-based music creation. https://tunepad.com/