eTwinning Professional Development Workshop "Arts

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Professional Development Workshop "Arts
Humanities" 6-8 April 2006, Athens, Greece
Twinning music learnersthrough technology
Spyros Raptis Institute for Language and Speech
Processing spy_at_ilsp.gr Evi Chrysaffidoy Ellinogerm
aniki Agogi evi_at_ea.gr
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Contents

• Intro Motivation
• The Technology
• The Scenario
• The Benefits
• The Message

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Intro Motivation

• Music is a universal language. It is something
  everybody understands and enjoys. It is thus one
  of the things that bind together people from
  different places, different backgrounds,
  different cultures!
• Currently, music and technology have come very
  close mp3s, portable audio devices, online music
  exchange, But, technology has a very low
  penetration in music education.
• Nevertheless, 88 of the students we asked did
  use computers at home and 69 believe that a
  computer could help in learning music things are
  now more mature than ever!

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The TechnologyInitial approach

• The work initially started aiming to develop an
  efficient environment for assisting beginner
  students when practising at home (project IMUTUS
  Interactive Music Tuition)
• This was clearly intended as a complement to
  traditional music teaching.
• Focused on the recorder.
• Since its beginning, it established close
  contacts with music teachers

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• Video produced by YourIS.
• www.youris.com

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The TechnologyWorking with the system

• The most important result of those first steps
  was a functional prototype of the basic concept
  and the first reactions from the teachers and
  students during validation

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The TechnologyEvaluating a performance

• Evaluate performance
• Detect errors
• Prioritize and select the ones to display
• Show in appropriate form
• Grade

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The TechnologyField trials and validation

• The approach provided strong evidence for its
  effectiveness students made faster progress and
  teachers revised their first doubts

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Aiming higher!

• 8 partners from 6 countries aiming to innovate
  music teaching through technology (project VEMUS
  Virtual European Music School)
• More contexts and much more collaborationclassro
  om (real virtual), distance learning
• More instruments and more featuresflute,
  saxophone, trumpet, clarinet
• More involvement ofmusic teachers, students and
  schools

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Aiming higher!Participating User Groups
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ScenariosTwinning Music Learners

• Linking remote music classes
• Enabling a synchronous virtual music class
• Supporting groups of young musicians
• Supporting asynchronous music classes

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Linking remote music classes

• Select and exchange popular songs from each
  country
• Students learn how to play the songs (helped by
  their teachers and the VEMUS software)
• Classes periodically go online and children
  follow each others progress

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Enabling a synchronousvirtual music class

• Share a common workspace and a common view of the
  music score (and, possibly, video)
• A student performs, while the teacher and the
  others can see his/her performance and watch
  information through their own screen
  (visualizations, page turning)
• System evaluates performance and teachers uses
  graphics to explain hard-to-teach points.
  Teacher puts annotations and notes on the score
  which automatically appear to all the students
  screens
• The performance and all material produced is
  automatically stored to all students computers

Student
Teacher
Student
Student
Student
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Supporting groups of young musicians

• Remote learners study the same song separately
• They practice at their own time and pace (e.g.
  using the VEMUS practicing environment) and they
  regularly communicate (asynchronously)
• Every time each makes progress, s/he uploads a
  new performance to a shared workplace online
• The others can download and import that
  performance to their own environment and play on
  top of it (use it as accompanying music).
• They can also provide feedback.
• After enough iterations, the students meet and
  perform in front of their mates

Student
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The Message

• Participate in building a music community of
  people that appreciate the positive role that
  technology can play in
• connecting and linking people and cultures,
• assisting music tuition, and
• in enhancing the music teaching and learning
  experience

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How to Come Aboard

• Get aware Visit our portal and keep coming back
  to follow closely its progress. Register to our
  mailing list to receive related information and
  the e-newsletters.
• Get active Use collaborative scenarios, adapt
  them to your preferences and needs and build up
  on them to bring music twinning to its full
  potential.
• Get involved Participate in the VEMUS community.
  Experiment with VEMUS technological components
  and prototypes, and use them in your music
  teaching.
• Get ahead Join our evaluation, testing and
  validation activities be one of the first to try
  new tech concepts in music teaching and help to
  make them a reality.

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Contact
Spyros Raptis
Institute for Language and Speech
Processing spy_at_ilsp.gr