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On-line Gaming Resources Online Games for Music Enrichment
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leadership.uoregon.edu
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On-line games are a great way to increase your music skills, practice your singing, and evaluate performances. Here are some really wonderful on-line games to both work your singing, your analysis, and your music theory studies. Sites include "graded karaoke," places to post your performances and also leave comments on others' performances, a cool songwriting site, and more! Educational gaming looks to be an integral part of a well-balanced classroom diet for present and future school settings. For example, the Florida Virtual School recognizes that there are many different types of learners. I have read research that says that although there are 9 different identified categories of intelligence, 90% of teachers both learn themselves by and so primarily teach by -- linguistic intelligence. Gaming makes education feel more experiential, and so uses a number of different intelligences thereby appealing to more and more students. For example, biology computer game uses discovery-based learning -- which reflects how we all use all of our intelligences to learn how to live from the time we are born in real life. Gaming hones 21st century skills, as well, including critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and use of technology. Another example of this is the Second Life program is a way for students to create their own lives a virtual self that then lives the content that they are learning. This has shown improvement in self-efficacy rates. Self-efficacy, in my opinion, is the most important trait that anyone can foster. The ability to truly affect your circumstances allows you to create the life you want. It seems to me that a great way to learn this important to trait is by practicing on your virtual self! HIGHLIGHTED LINK The final link on this page is a songwriters' happy place: http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm. This site allows you to compose your own music using loops of different instruments with different rhythms, so that you can actually hear what your song is going to sound like without actually having to learn to play an instrument. An understanding of chords in music theory would be incredibly helpful, but not entirely necessary. This opens up the world of songwriting to more students than ever before. |
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