Music Online Telecommunications Environment for Teaching
- The MOTET Project is a pilot
innovation seeking to merge the real-life performance
worlds, the online communication abilities and
information worlds, and the classroom environment for
learning and teaching music.
- Through two scheduled online performance events, students will study about contemporary music and experience interactive sessions with performing musicians and composers. To enhance the
- online sessions, students will participate in online curriculua several weeks before and after each
- performance. Teachers will use this web-based material in their class to teach about contemporary
- music. There are activities for students of varying musical ability, including those with little or no
- formal training.
- After the events, all curricular material and sound files are available on the web site for continued use.
The curricular activities are grouped into three areas. Activities are based on late middle-school/early high school levels. Teachers can modify the activities to suit the needs of their students. Activities can be done individually or in pairs or larger groups.
Many activities involve student journals. These are to be used as reflective tools. Students should feel free to write anything down in them, being assured no one will ever look inside but themselves, or the teacher, if the journal is to be used as an assessment tool (which they often are). All external writing and assignments use material the student decides to use from these journals. Students are encouraged to always look back and see how their work has changed. Journals can include text, drawings, notation, and more.
Curriculum Contents:
- Thematic focuses on the importance of themes and influences in music.
- Becoming a Critic teaches how to listen to music carefully and knowledgeably.
- Music Specific focuses on music composition exercises for music students.
- Music Examples is a page of sound files related to this project
- Glossary of music terms
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