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October 25, 2005

Teaching Music Appreciation With Podcasting

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Posted by Alex Williams

Do you remember music appreciation class? I yawn just thinking about those days in high school sitting through those lectures. Man, I wish I had podcasting and teachers like Chris Paschen and Bruce Bodelson.

The Minneapolis high school teachers found the text book just didn't hold the student's interest. So they decided to start podcasting:


"Although we're following a brand-new music appreciation book that is meant for high school, it doesn't hold or captivate their interest all that much," Bodelson said. "And I'd been reading about podcasting in the newspapers and thinking, wow, that has to be the wave of the future, when a janitor from Glasgow, Scotland, can assemble a huge following just because he has an interest in local rock bands and puts them on his podcast -- and all of a sudden people from all over the world are dialing this guy up."

Students create two different kinds of podcasts. They podcast live recordings and do radio talk shows, featuring individual performances. The idea is for students to use the vocabulary they are learning in the music appreciation class in analyzing the music in the shows. They also get to say what they want in a show that is put up on the Internet for anyone to hear. How cool must that be for those students?

I like what this student said:


Back at the North High band's website, student Conner Vail is segueing out of a Modest Mouse song and into his spiel: "Is it just me," he asks, "or does anyone else feel that pop culture is completely shallow, vapid, materialistic and morally bankrupt?"

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1. paule daily on November 15, 2005 01:19 AM writes...

Here is some music to appreciate and reflect on

John Cage put Zen Buddhist beliefs into practice through music. He described his music as "purposeless play"

www.silentpodcast.com

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