SMART+Music

= “Student perceptions about individual practice using the SmartMusic® assessment program – real and hypothetical suggest continued motivational appeal regarding technology use.” = from [] Buck, Michael. (2008). //The efficacy of SmartMusic® assessment as a teaching and learning tool.// Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi – Mississippi. Unpublished dissertation.

SMARTBoards are an interactive tool used in the classroom to help get students involved in lessons. SMARTBoards are digital whiteboards with touch sensitivity, where everything created can be saved as a computer file. Students and teachers are able to move elements of the screen around with their fingers or to draw or write with the various colours of digital pens, and everything can be saved for later or deleted if it is no longer needed. Smart board technology has been around since about 1991. Generally, a teacher's computer would be projected and used through the interactive screen. Smart boards are gaining popularity around the world and more and more programs are becoming sought-after to use with them. Here is an introductory video with more information about the newest trend in learning technology: [|SMART Technologies] .
 * __General SMART Board Information__ **

**__SMART Music__ ** SMART Music is an excellent tool to use in the elementary music classroom or the middle high/high school band or choir room. It includes many digital method books and music, assignment options, ability to share progress with students and parents, and so much more! SMART Music can be ordered online [|here] . media type="youtube" key="NyRTLZ0KxeQ" height="315" width="420"media type="youtube" key="KNGZ-NidCP0" height="315" width="420"  __Applications__  Although SMART Music is primarily purchased by music teachers for use in the classroom, links can be made to a students' home and progress using this program. Teachers have the chance to track student grades in individual folders, record student playing tests, and in turn share these results with parents at interview time, if the parents need to be made aware of a problem, or if the parents should be made aware of the stellar progress made by their child.  Students can also use SMART Music as a practicing tool. The SMART Music website has many videos on their website featuring Wynton Marsalis, emphasizing the importance of practicing and how SMART Music can help students practice more effectively (videos can be found [|here] ). Though a tad outdated (note the computer in the background in the first video), these videos prove a useful tool for students as they develop their skills playing as a soloist, as well as a member of an ensemble.

 [|Activities]  Once purchased, SMARTMusic is a gateway to numerous lessons, games, and learning experiences for both teacher and students. A very useful resource for these lessons and games is a wiki found [|here] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> called Mustech (also found under additional music resources farther down the page!). These games can become a teacher's base, one on which they can build and grow using other Smart technologies and resources.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Smart Board Galleries__ ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The smart board galleries are downloadable <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|here] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. If you scroll down, there is a section devoted entirely to music! Once you download the music gallery, you have access to images of dozens of notes and music symbols that can be arranged in any way on your smartboard as well as staff lines to set the symbols onto if you wish. Another feature of the gallery is the folder full of images of musical instruments. There are cartoon-like images of many instruments and then another folder full of interactive and multimedia instruments, that you can hear! A final folder contains the image of a stage, on which you could put a selection of interactive instruments.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Applications__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Even though the galleries are quite simple, they can be quite effective when used creatively. An example of how you could apply the galleries to the class room is to arrange some of the notes on the board simply by clicking, dragging, and dropping symbols, and using them to practice rhythm. There is an infinite arrangements of these notes, and you can edit them with the smartboard pens, as well. So, you can have any rhythm you want, ready on your smartboard for your students to use. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Activities__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> One way of using the smart board music gallery is to have students create a rhythm on the board and then have the class play it. Once that rhythm is used, another student can very easily switch rhythms around and create a new rhythm. This can be altered by bringing new types of notes onto the screen or by bringing pitches or scale degrees/solfege to create different melodies.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**__Additional music resources to look into__**: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> *it should be noted that there are a fair number of interactive websites that lend themselves to smart board learning quite well, even though they are not a program designed specifically for the smart board. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - [|Mustech]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- [|Arts Alive]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-[|Jazz]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- [|Morton Subotnick’s Creating Music]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- [|New York Philharmonic] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- [|Poisson Rouge Piano]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- [|MusicTheory.net]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- [|The Music Lab (San Fransisco Symphony)]