Video about Music, Art & Technology at Lewis Elementary

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This spring Emily Chapman talked with Lewis Elementary music/technology teacher Tony Jamesbarry about technology and art instruction at Lewis Elementary. The video provides an overview of our program and demonstrates some of the projects that students have been working on. Emily, a Media Studies graduate of the University of San Francisco, is an old family friend. She is working on two other videos about Lewis and I'll post those when they are finished.


Lewis Elementary School from timlauer on Vimeo.

Dan Meyer : the next-gen lecturer

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Dan Meyer has produced another great video, this time documenting his experience using a data projector and video to help his students understand algebra. In the process he discusses his teaching process and how it has changed because of these tools. I plan to share this with my staff when we come back in August.


dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

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And The Band Honked On...

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Today The New York Times has an article about a program called the Academy that offers fellowships to graduates of leading music schools to receive high-level coaching and lessons in a two-year program. In return they commit to teach music one and a half days in New York public schools.

It was early in the school year. A young professional French horn player named Alana Vegter, a thoroughbred musician trained by elite teachers, took a handful of trumpet and trombone players into an equipment supply room. Speaking in the flat tones of the Chicago suburb where she grew up, Ms. Vegter tried to coax notes out of each player. A tall sixth-grade trumpeter named Kenny Ocean, his pants sagging around his hips, played too high, then too low. A smile spread across his face when he hit it right.

[From Music - In a Year at a Brooklyn School, a Professional French Hornist Encounters Music at Its Most Basic - NYTimes.com]