Thursday, November 7, 2013

PLN: Wikispaces

My PLN this week is Wikispaces. This is a great tool to use to have students respond to music.  While I was in high school, I had to do listenings to songs; this included writing about the styles used in the songs and any musical techniques that we could hear.  I enjoyed doing this very much.  It allowed for me to really listen to music and think about what was happening in particular songs.  However, I had no way to know how other people felt about the songs that they had listened to.  Having a Wikispace for our class would have been very helpful for situations such as this.  We could have shared our thoughts about music with each other and have our teacher's feedback.  Responding to music is very important, but it is also important that students share their responses to music with others.

2 comments:

  1. Sharing, in this case, makes good sense as each listener brings both their experience and background to provide different insights.

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  2. Went to an interesting seminar talking about alternate education methods. One of the techniques used was Wikispaces in a 6th grade class. This was used as a communication method and doing collaborative assignments. The site, for reference, was our6thgrade.wikispaces.com

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