The Keeping Score web site is designed to give people of all musical backgrounds an opportunity to explore the music and life of the composers featured in the Keeping Score television series in depth, and at their own pace. Extensive audio, video, and critically acclaimed interactive material explores each composer’s scores and pertinent musical techniques as well as the personal and historical stories behind them in a user-friendly way. The site is designed to appeal particularly to high school, college and university music appreciation students and their teachers, and its interactive learning tools offer a unique and in-depth online learning experience. The site also includes a historical timeline that takes users deeper into the eight individual composers’ political, social, and cultural milieus as well as downloadable lesson plans created by teachers who have experienced the Keeping Score Education program.
Type of Material:
This website includes text, photographs, music scores, audio recordings, video and animations. The content is linked together into various interactive webpages.
Recommended Uses:
Materials could be used in the following ways:
In class supplement
Research project
Self-Paced Listening and Learning
Asynchronous assignment
Technical Requirements:
Any browser can be used
Requests use of plug in to see scores
Will need Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing lesson plans
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Goals include:
Distinguish characteristics and elements of musical technique and history for featured composers
Examine musical scores of featured composers
Experience additional conversations and literature not often found in the traditional music appreciation text
Target Student Population:
Author designates the target population as:
Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
No prerequisite knowledge is required to study the subject matter. It is recommended that the viewer be comfortable with maneuvering through different web pages and hyperlinks to view all topics.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Material presented is clear and can be interpreted by multiple learner types. Strengths to be noted are:
Material provides visual and aural aspects to engage multiple learning strategies.
Site contains additional links which define elements of the subject further if desired for viewer.
Material provides opportunities for interaction and comments.
Concerns:
Material could benefit from providing ease of sources to verify information.
If this site were to be used as a research tool, the viewer would need to do additional searches to find out where the information came from (i.e., books, sites, people).
Adding a link for resources would help viewers value the validity of the material being provided. Information on resources can be found in the “About” tab, but the viewer may not think to look there.
Using a more distinctive title such as “Resources” will help the viewer find this information
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Material uses language which is accessible by multiple levels of individuals. Strengths to be noted are:
No prior knowledge is necessary to learn from the material.
Can be easily integrated in a course or as a supplemental tool.
Utilizes video and audio to enhance reading material.
Concerns:
Material does not provide learning objectives in initial content.
Learning ideas can be found in lesson plans for teachers but not in reference to students who may be using the site for information.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
This site is easy to use.
Concerns:
Material is simple to use but has some interactive materials which may not load. Concerns to be noted are:
Featured composer on initial page loads all audio and video content but subsequent modules and composers do not all have same ease of loading.
Some score and visual sources provide error “plug in not supported” or “flash player no longer supported” when they are clicked on.
Multiple browsers can be used but the loading of visual and audio resources may still be hampered.
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