Podcast In Piano Lessons

This Classroom 2.0: The Book chapter can be downloaded at [http://www.scribd.com/doc/100899660/Maja-Dakic-Brkovic-Piano-Lessons].

Activity Summary

Record student’s playing (in a few tries, if needed) during the regular class, or during the public
performance, analyze the recording by replaying it, to assure if everything is fine or need more
polishing, record student’s announcement, join announcement and playing tracks into one track,
apply basic sound editing (noise removal, normalizing, mp3 conversion), publish recordings regularly
on a podcasting blog, inform students and their parents about new recordings, by email (or Twitter,
Blog ...), listen with your students to new recordings during the final part of the lessons, promote
students’ recordings / playing

Specific learning objectives

• Objective listening skills
• Concentration /attention
• Aspiration for perfection
• Ability to overcome errors during playing
• Healthy inter-personal relationships in the class
• Motivational force for better engagement in practicing at home
• Technology literacy
• Materials for e-portfolio

In my lessons, I focus at developing students’:

• objective listening skills
• concentration of attention
• aspiration for perfection
• ability to overcome errors during playing
• healthy inter-personal relationships in the class
• motivational force for better engagement in practicing at home
• technology literacy
• materials for e-portfolio