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Using TimeRime andGoogle Maps for
InterdisciplinaryLessons
By Dr. Brandon L. Haskett
SAGINAW VALLEY STATE
UNIVERSITY
Blhaskett@gmail.com
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Why interdisciplinary?
These types of lessons are not intended to
turn music classes into math, reading, history,
or visual arts classes. They are intended to make connections that
are natural and help provide context to the
musical knowledge they are learning.
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EXAMPLE #1
Students commonly learn major events
in U.S. and world history in school.
National music Standard #9 charges uswith teaching the relationship between
music and history/culture.
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EXAMPLE #1 (cont.)
Many of us learned that the American
Revolutionary War occurred from 1775-1783.
Many of us also learned that Mozart andBeethoven lived during this same time period.
Did you make that connection when you
learned these facts? I didnt.
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EXAMPLE #2
Many of us learn basic geographic facts
while in school (continents, countries,
and their relationships) along withinformation like historical trade routes.
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EXAMPLE #2 (cont.)
When teaching music of other cultures
(whether in general music or in an
ensemble) students frequently have ahard time making connections between
the area the music is from and its
musical characteristics.
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PREMISE
Students synthesize information better
with more contextual information to
inform their new knowledge if the newconcept is related to previous
knowledge (known to unknown)
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Timerime
Allows you to create timelines with
multiple threads, Pictures, and
embedded youtubes. In other words,you can show chronology with
examples and the relationship between
multiple timelines.
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TIMERIME SCREENSHOT
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TIMERIME SHARING
Each timerime can be linked to and can
be embedded in a webpage, therefore,
your students could access these itemsfrom your webpage instead of having to
learn another site.
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TIMERIME IDEA #1
Using timelines to understand rapid
changes in music (EX. Making
connections between non-westernmusical influences and the history of
technology and/or the history of travel.
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TIMERIME IDEA #2
Using timeline to understand cultural
influences in music (Ex. Making
connections between colonial history inafrica and cultural influences in african
music)
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Google Maps
Allows you to show geographic
relationships.
Can associate each pin on the map withtext, a picture, or embeddable video.
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GM SCREENSHOT
Music from Around the world
GM/YOUTUBE MASHUP
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GM SHARING
GoogleMaps allows for collaboration on
maps (group projects).
GMs can be embedded in a website orlinked to.
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GM IDEA #1
Using a map to show geographic
influences on musical characteristics
(EX. Map that show that african musicin northeast africa exhibits arab musical
influences)
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GM IDEA #2
Using a map to illustrate a musical
diaspora (EX. Map that shows the
spread of a musical tradition Withsupporting video, such as the spread of
steelpan from the Caribbean to the
U.S.)
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Sounds Great, BUT . . .
Interdisciplinary lessons take time to
construct.
Consider a divide and conquerapproach. Have each teacher construct
one or two of these lessons a year with
a promise to create unique exampleseach year.
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Then . . .
Save them in a mutually accessible webpage.
I suggest using a posterous website where
multiple contributors can post. Consider asking your administrators to allow
you to spend a professional development day
with all district music teachers working in a
lab on this Process.
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Contact Info and Links
Blhaskett@gmail.com (Subject MMC)
http://www.timerime.com
http://maps.google.com http://www.posterous.com
http://blhaskett.posterous.com ; Click MMC
tab for screencasts and these slides.
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Questions?
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Thank you for attending! Enjoy the
conference!