Music Technology Projects: The Art of Storytelling (2 Hours 30 Minutes)

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All levels

8 lessons

0 quizzes

70 students

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BONUS! When successfully completing this course, you will get a free download of five lessons and all the resources needed to complete the projects (25 pages of materials + additional files)! They work as one-off projects or can be combined into an entire semester of music projects.

Course Description

Music Technology Projects – The Art of Storytelling is a 2.5 hour course designed for teachers to learn how to engage their students in creative music technology projects. Content is presented at the middle school level but can easily be adapted for elementary or high school students by scaffolding in support or additional requirements.

Teachers will learn how to use The Art of Storytelling as a way to engage their students in expressive music technology projects, complete with five examples and demonstration of actual student work. All projects include downloads of the materials needed to complete the projects with your own students.

All projects utilize a free digital audio workstation (DAW), SoundTrap (www.soundtrap.com), and a free film editing program, ShotCut (https://shotcut.org/). These are both powerful, free programs that students can easily use in the classroom. If you have access to paid programs (i.e., Ableton and Premiere Pro), they can easily be substituted.

SoundTrap and ShotCut are recommended because they are free! The five storytelling projects covered in this course, along with resource downloads and lesson plans, include:

Storyboarding for Storytelling
Picture Book Reimagined
Film Scoring Until the Mooses Come Home
Superheros and Pixel Art
National Anthem for a New Nation

Course Objectives

During the course, you will:

Learn how storytelling can be used as a tool for inspiring composing and creating in the music classroom.
Learn how to integrate DAW’s and film editing as part of a music technology projects-based curriculum.
Learn the fundamentals of working with mixed media arts with students.

Student Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Lead students through five music technology projects over several weeks, if not an entire semester.
Use storytelling as an method for creating with music technology.
Use and adapt the materials provided for your own classroom.

Requirements for Modules

In order to receive a Certificate of Completion and 2.5 Hours for this course, you will need to:

Practice combining video, audio, and exporting the project from ShotCut.

Complete 5 Learning Modules
Practice combining video, audio, and exporting the project from ShotCut.

Patrick Cooper

Dr. Patrick K. Cooper is an assistant professor of music education at Florida International University. He teaches courses in research, curriculum development, philosophy, and creativity. He holds degrees in music education from Arizona State University (B.M., M.M.) and University of South Florida (Ph.D.). Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award from the Center for Music Education Research, his research interests capture the intersection of creativity, inclusion, and performance. His publications can be found in academic journals such as Psychology of Music and International Journal of Music Education as well as practitioner texts such as The Music Technology Cookbook and The Learner-Centered Music Classroom. His book Broadcast to Podcast: Lessons from Radio for an Online Music Education is available through F-Flat Books. Dr. Cooper has presented internationally, nationally, and locally at conferences such as NeuroMusic, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, International Society for Music Education, Society for Music Teacher Education, and the National Association for Music Education Biennial Music Research and Teacher Education Conference. He has given workshops and lectures as an invited speaker at several universities including University of Southern California, Arizona State University, Illinois State University, and Westminster Choir College. As a musician, he has performed extensively as a double bassist, synthesizer player, and hip-hop artist. Prior to his appointment at Florida International University, he held adjunct positions with Eastern Illinois University and The Crane School of Music at SUNY-Potsdam, was a Presidential Doctoral Fellow at University of South Florida, and taught in public schools and community centers in St. Petersburg, FL and the metro Phoenix area.