Digital Storytelling/Good Practice Habits

Assignment: Good practice habits/scales learned with assistance from digital story.

Uses in the classroom: Using strategies learned in class, students will demonstrate understanding of how to practice and mastery of appropriate scales by performing for the teacher. All scales should be memorized and performed at an appropriate, consistent tempo. It will be the students responsibility to schedule practice time as appropriate to fit their needs.  The video included below illustrates both how a student should and should not approach their preparation.

The use of digital storytelling is meant to underscore in a fun but observable way the benefits of thought-out practice habits and perils of procrastination.

Issues to consider: Students will need to consider all possible scales when selecting which ones will be most appropriate for them. Students should also be realistic early in the process about things they may need assistance with and request tutoring as needed.

Students will also need to take a realistic look at their personal schedules and make appropriate time to practice. Students who give themselves a longer period of time to absorb, memorize, and master the content will most certainly perform at a higher level than those who put off learning to the last minute (see video for example).


Copyright:

Morning Mood from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg - public domain, accessed from:

Grieg: Peer Gynt: Act III Prelude (Morning Mood) (Masur) : DWTKenInNY : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2014, from https://archive.org/details/GriegPeerGyntActIiiPreludemorningMoodmasur

Flight of the Bumblebee by P.I. Tchaikovsky - public domain, accessed from:

Flight of the Bumblebee : The US Army Band : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2014, from https://archive.org/details/FlightOfTheBumblebee

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, III. Lento Funeral March by Chopin - public domain, accessed from:

Frederic Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, III. Lento Funeral March (From The Fighting Temptations) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2014, from https://archive.org/details/FredericChopinPianoSonataNo.2Op.35III.LentoFuneralMarchFromTheFightingTemptations

Sunset Over Town photograph by Kratochvil - public domain, accessed from: 

Kratochvil, P. (n.d.). Sunset Over Town. Retrieved November 1, 2014, from http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=6252&picture=sunset-over-town

All other pictures and sound files created by the author.