Noteflight in the Music Classroom
I’m going on a field trip tomorrow, about which I’m really, really excited. My destination is the nearby city of Lowell, Massachusetts, where Professor Alex Ruthmann of U. Mass Lowell’s Music Education Department is using Noteflight for collaborative composition activities in the classroom. Alex and his students are working with with beginning piano students from Lowell High School; please read Alex’s blog post to find out the full story on what he is thinking and doing.
I think I’ll leave it here for now, and post more in a day or two: I expect I’ll have much more to talk about after my visit to Lowell and it will be great to talk about that actual experience. What I can say in advance is that this way of using Noteflight is of great interest to our whole team. We’re hoping that many music teachers and educators will experiment with the wide-open possibilities for active learning with Noteflight, and share their knowledge with others and with us. We’re looking to find out from the many great teachers out there how we can best develop Noteflight’s potential as a great educational tool.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I’ve been looking for something like this for years! I dabbled with interactive music aural and theory resources, but the lack of an online notation app was always a failing. All credit to you guys for making it happen. No-one has an excuse to post their musical examples online without them being playable – no more screen shots of bits of notation! Ironically, I’m not currently involved in teaching music language at the moment, but I’m sure note flight will make a difference to learning and teaching.