Tuesday, January 20, 2009

MUSC685--how to post your Chapter responses

This is a brief instruction for you to complete your chapter reading assignment:
  1. On your word document, just write an essay for each question and separate citations for each question. In other words, we're making each question a topic for an indepedent essay. Remember that as long as it makes sense, it doesn't need to be long. I appreciate cohesive writing that demonstrates insightful reflection.
  2. So now, how are we going to make it work on the blog? I tried mine and found that we can easily make labels of our postings. So, it'll make sense if we create the labels for each of the topics, i.e., History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Curriculum, and Technology, we'll go over this semester first. And then we can post think this is what we do on the blog. There you will see a little box "Label Actions." Click on the label actions and Go to New Post and then click on "Edit Posts," under "Apply Label" click on "New Label. " From there, please create the following labels: Introduction, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Curriculum, and Technology. As the semester goes, we can categorize our postings according to these labels we set up.
  3. For example, for the first chapter reading assignment, you will have seperate postings for each of the questions I ask. Before you publish your post, label it as History. So, by the time you finish posting these six questions, there should be six entries under the History label.

Please let me know if you have any questions/problems making it work.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Elliot Carter

Who can live up to 100 year old still functioning well and compose? Amazing amzing human being~
Check this out from New York Times... 
About Elliot Carter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/music/12carter.html

Saturday, November 29, 2008

First posting here...




Ha... it's much easier than I thought. I guess, it's a good sign, then. The reason I create this web blog is that I am writing a proposal about using web blog to assess students' learning. The project is not going to happen until next Janurary. But, I thought I'd give myself a try first... to see if this is really user friendly!
Anyhow, I just hope I'll have fun web blogging...

These two pictures were actually scanned from a card Zoe drew me at the end of last Spring semester. I remembered we spent some time talking about how we can use music to tell stories, and how, through the flow of music, we can actually touch people's heart.
Such a clever and musical kid! I guess...children like she are the reasons why I never really quit my job as a music teacher.