Performing
Performing music via blended/collaborative strategies is becoming easier and easier to do as technology develops that takes into account latency (lag) issues. Performers 1000's of miles away can now work together and enjoy in ensemble playing. Individual performers can harness technology to record, review, reflect upon, and share their work. As music teachers, we can provide tailored lessons/tutorials to help our students develop their abilities. We can interact with our students and give them feedback in both real-time and at our convenience if we harness the technology that is readily available.
Lesson's Tutorials:
Using audio/video capture applications, you can craft basic instrumental or singing lessons for your students to view in and out of class. Do you want to introduce an important technique to all of your students to access during center activities? Would you like to craft tiered lessons for students at different abilitiy levels? If so, then this blended strategy will help you and your students greatly.
Things to Explore:
- Here are some example recorder lessons for 3rd grade and 4th grade.
- Many amazing lessons avalable for free on YouTube.
- Check this tutorial on how to create your own YouTube tutorial:
Other Interesting Resources:
- How YouTube is a participatory culture.
- eHow Music: YouTube group creating many great lessons for diverse
instruments (clarinet, guitar, violin, percussion, voice, etc.).
- Cifra Club: A Spanish language guitar tutorial maker on YouTube.
- The Zoen: An amazing way for your students to connect with great
music teachers via the internet (it does cost per lesson).
- ArtistWorks: Another online private lesson resource (offers monthly
plans).
- ZebraKeys: A FREE text/image-based piano lesson source.
- Synthesia: A FREE piano-lesson game like Guitar Hero.
Collabroative Coaching/Playing Tests:
Similar to lesson videos, you can create lessons and respond to your students' individual needs. You can either send students individualized lessons, use a resource like MoveNote to interact with students (they can record a video and you can record a video response), or you can use video conferencing apps to have live mini-lessons. You can use GoogleDocs to provide a record of MoveNote.

Things to Explore:
- Examples of MoveNote with recorder students: Spring and A Question.
- Check out this tutorial for using MoveNote:
Resource Links:
Other Ways to Upload/Share Performances:
- Tutorial for using GoogleDrive on iPad
Images from: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9Difi9bypu9, https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9Difi9bypu9-FoUsfFWpX6odYLLjXQk_q0aPxZBSFynecMOSLoKRKWRWIfZdXRGOdXMZCahrLBG6vWrwIeT-A26iDjTucgFVCP0Fuzr79BHW5kLJ3sw, and https://lh4.ggpht.com/u1a88ipkl_nxpD5Q-6DQRP1rMAyMEojq58F9JHJ4127JjPkKdfGD-qkG6gACFb73MfA%3Dw300
Telematic Ensembles:
Either in real-time or asynchronously pieced together, performing with others across wide physical and chronological spaces is becoming ever and ever easier to do.

Things to Explore:
- Eric Whitacre's Virtial Choir performing "Lux Aurumque" with
performers put together by the composer, himself. Click here to see
how they did it.
- Virtual Tuba Ensemble
- VIrtual Handbell Ensemble performing "Misterium"
- Virtual Symphony performing "Pachelbel's Canon in D"
Resource Links:
- Movavi: Create a split screen video.
- Using Advanced features in iMovie, you can do side-by-side and
picture-in-picture effects.
- For live performances, here are some free live group video conferencing
apps: ooVoo, UMeet for Android, and Google+ Hangouts.
