Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity

It has never been easier or more fun for students to compose, improvise, arrange, and produce music and music-related projects than with today's technology. Written in a practical, accessible manner, Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity offers both a framework for and practical tips on the technology tools best suited for encouraging students' authentic musical creativity. Author Scott Watson makes a compelling case for creativity-based music learning through eight teacher-tested principles that access, nurture, and develop students' potential for musical expression. Example after example illustrates each principle in a variety of music teaching and technology scenarios. Watson also includes practical ideas for technology-based creative music activities, locating lesson plans and other resources, and assessing creative work. The book provides detailed plans for dozens of attractive projects, each linked to MENC National Standards, and also offers suggestions for making adaptations according to grade level and technology proficiency. Additionally, it includes a valuable section of resources with tips for setting up a computer music workstation, a plain-language description of how digital audio works, and a music education technology glossary. Most of the activities described can be carried out by novice users with free or low-cost music applications. The book also features a comprehensive companion website with dozens of audio and video examples as well as many downloadable worksheets, rubrics, and activity files. Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/musicalcreativity.

Arts & Photography

Watson, Scott

Music

Oxford University Press

It has never been easier or more fun for students to compose, improvise, arrange, and produce music and music-related projects than with today's technology. Written in a practical, accessible manner, Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity offers both a framework for and practical tips on the technology tools best suited for encouraging students' authentic musical creativity. Author Scott Watson makes a compelling case for creativity-based music learning through eight teacher-tested principles that access, nurture, and develop students' potential for musical expression. Example after example illustrates each principle in a variety of music teaching and technology scenarios. Watson also includes practical ideas for technology-based creative music activities, locating lesson plans and other resources, and assessing creative work. The book provides detailed plans for dozens of attractive projects, each linked to MENC National Standards, and also offers suggestions for making adaptations according to grade level and technology proficiency. Additionally, it includes a valuable section of resources with tips for setting up a computer music workstation, a plain-language description of how digital audio works, and a music education technology glossary. Most of the activities described can be carried out by novice users with free or low-cost music applications. The book also features a comprehensive companion website with dozens of audio and video examples as well as many downloadable worksheets, rubrics, and activity files. Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/musicalcreativity.

The classic book The Art of War (or as it is sometimes translated, The Art of Strategy) by Sun Tzu is often used to illustrate principles that can apply to the management of business environments. The Art of War for Security Managers is the first book to apply the time-honored principles of Sun Tzu’s theories of conflict to contemporary organizational security. Corporate leaders have a responsibility to make rational choices that maximize return on investment. The author posits that while conflict is inevitable, it need not be costly. The result is an efficient framework for understanding and dealing with conflict while minimizing costly protracted battles, focusing specifically on the crucial tasks a security manager must carry out in a 21st century organization.

The Art of War for Security Managers: 10 Steps to Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Butterworth-Heinemann

pp. 256, full page colour illustrations, notes, bibliography, solo exhibitions, selected group exhibitions, commissions, collections, index.

Jack Shadbolt

History & Criticism

Douglas&McIntyre

This publication features the proceedings of the Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future seminar that originated as an independent project within the Canadian curatorial community to provide a forum on curating in the visual arts. Organized in cooperation with the Walter Phillips Gallery and The Banff Centre, the event took place in November 1994. This publication documents the seminar, following the format of the event itself, and features transcripts of the formal presentations of each of the 29 participants, portions of the general discussion, as well as brief commentaries by each of the seminar organizers. The essays are grouped to address such topics as: "Methodologies," "Negotiations" and "Ethics," as well as "Local Knowledge and New Internationalism."

Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future

Hill, Tom

Banff Centre Pr

Cellars to Ceilings is an invaluable resource for the homebuilder or remodeler who wants to discover the full range of available building materials and products before making final selections. From factory-made foundation walls, to concrete countertops, to cork floors, this logically organized, comprehensive guide enables the homeowner to confidently choose the right construction products, by providing clear descriptions, concise lists of advantages and disadvantages, and easy-to-use selection strategies. Chapters also contains descriptions and examples of how building materials and products are often listed in a specification sheet that becomes a part of the building contract.

Cellars To Ceilings: Comparing and Selecting Homebuilding Materials and Products

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Baine Books

Cellars To Ceilings : Comparing and Selecting Homebuilding Materials and Products

Science & Math

Technology

The Technology Guide for Music Educators is a resource that will help educators accomplish their curricular goals as they relate to software and technology products. This comprehensive and compact package is organized into several sections: Electronic Musical Instruments, Music Production, Music Notation Software, Technology-Assisted Learning, Multimedia, Productivity Tools, and Classroom and Lab Management. In addition to descriptions of product features, you'll also find other information valuable to educators, such as grade-level appropriateness and ideas for integrating the technologies covered into the music curriculum. Each chapter includes a summary table of the products presented (including system requirements and manufacturer websites), and a list of resources, such as suggested further reading.

Technology Guide for Music Educators

Artistpro

Daniel Richter: Pick Flag White Horse

Baerwaldt, Wayne

Scott, Kitty

Individual Artists

Power Plant

Tom Burrows, and the exhibition that preceded the book, presents work by the artist from his early career to the present. The book is a timely refocusing of attention on an artist who has made an immense contribution to the development of art in Vancouver, not only as an artist but as an educator and activist as well. Burrows first rose to prominence in the late-1960s and was included in several exhibitions at the UBC Fine Arts Library, an institution that was seminal in encouraging Vancouver's growing and now vibrant art community. In 1975 he received a United Nations commission to document squatters communities in Europe, Africa and Asia, a work that is now in the Belkin's collection. Burrows' work, which demonstrates an interest in process and new materials, has encompassed a number of disciplines including sculpture, early performance art, video, painting and iconic hand-built houses on the Maplewood Mudflats and Hornby Island. Currently most well known for his innovative monochromatic cast polymer resin "paintings/sculptures" produced during the last forty-five years, the book examines the full breadth of his career with works from the Belkin's permanent collection as the basis with other works from the artist, collectors and public institutions. Burrows has had solo exhibitions in London, Rome, Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Edinburgh and across Canada. His work is included in private, corporate and public collections in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Tom Burrows

Watson, Ian.

Figure 1 Publishing

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