Proposal: https://unmm-my.sharepoint.com/personal/eschwaner_unm_edu/Documents/Songwriting%20through%20Ukulele%20Proposal.docx?web=1 PowerPoint: https://unmm-my.sharepoint.com/personal/eschwaner_unm_edu/Documents/Songwriting%20through%20Ukulele%20copy.pptx?web=1

This reading was amazing. I loved it so much! The focus on poetry as an outlet for adolescents to express their many emotions is so important. As someone who used to be an adolescent who would write poetry to vent my feelings in high school (wish I did more of that now), I look back … More Thoughts on “Making the Best of Adolescence”

I love this article! It talks about the many possibilities and the potential music has to be an incredibly interdisciplinary subject. The class includes instrument making and songwriting in the skills to be learned, thus bringing in artistic and literary skills into the music classroom. The ukulele is also just really fun and attractive to … More Thoughts on “Building Your Own Musical Community: How YouTube, Miley Cyrus, and the Ukulele Can Create a New Kind of Ensemble”

This week was Easter Monday when we met, so we had a total of maybe 10 students. It was kind of nice to have a more intimate situation with te students, but I think the sheer number of us teachers can also be very intimidating. When I was younger, walking into a room full of … More Field Reflection Week 11

This was was interesting because we had a lot of inattention from the kids so classroom management was a problem we were having with a set of siblings we will call George and Theresa. They don’t like to follow rules and are very particular about it when they do. Everything decided must be up to … More Field Reflection Week 10

I never knew there were such differences in live and studio recordings! I knew live recording was taken in one shot and studio recordings were mixed, but the sheer amount of differences in the processes of recording in these two ways shows how different the skill sets required for each kind of recording. For live … More Thoughts on “The Recording Fields”

I really loved this chapter! It opened up my eyes about the practical uses of YouTube in the classroom that are just the every day uses of YouTube repurposed for education. Everyone has used YouTube to look up lyrics or find a how to video or even a video to help us out with our … More Thoughts on “Teaching Music With Youtube”

I really enjoyed this Ted talk! I thought it was really great that the ensemble focused on playing for the audience rather than talking about what they do as a group in order to showcase their new model for music education. The leader of the group brings up that at the turn of the 19th … More Thoughts on “The iPad as a Musical Instrument: Touch at Tedx Tampa Bay”

So this week, the community center was a little early to bring the kids to the room where we have class, so by the time I got there, they were already taking out the drums. Brandon was the only other intern that was there so I started helping him take out the drums while the … More Field Reflection Week 7

I enjoyed this reading a lot; it shined much light on the reality of public schooling and how stubborn the habits of the institution can be. This chapter is essentially saying that technologies won’t be fully accepted into the environment of public schools because of their tendency to stick to tradition regarding curriculum, as it’s … More Thoughts on “The Technology Skeptics’ Argument”