Using ILT in Music Technology at New College Nottingham

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Using ILT in Music Technology at New College
Nottingham

• Andy Wolfe
• Lecturer in Music Technology
• New College Nottingham

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New College Nottingham

• Large General FE College
• 6 centres across the city
• Good Ofsted report Spring 2005 (Performing
  Arts Grade 2)

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Music at NCN

• Around 250 FT music students
• From Entry level to BA level (majority
  vocational)
• Music Performance Production strands

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Platforms
PC
MAC
vs.

• Music Production courses ProTools (HD/LE),
  Logic Pro

• Music Performance courses Cubase SX, Sibelius

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Ideas

• Studio Design
• Course Folders
• Moodle

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Studio Design

• Problems with traditional studio learning
  experiences
• Highly passive
• Small groups
• No genuinely individual work

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Studio Design

• 10 individual workstations with
• Logic Pro, ProTools and other soft
  synths/samplers
• DIGI 002 interface
• Focusrite Pre-Amps
• Mackie Control Surface
• Patch Bay

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Studio Design

• 1 main control room area with all standard
  studio equipment and monitoring system

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Studio Design

• 2 live rooms for recording, all patched
  individually to every workstation
• Enables 10 (11) real-time recordings and mixes of
  the same source

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Studio Design
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Live Room
Master Station
Workstation
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Studio Design

• Improvements
• 100 active
• Larger groups
• Longer sessions
• Genuinely individual learning experience

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Course Folders

• Bespoke alternative to commercial VLEs
  (Blackboard, Learnwise etc.)
• College wide
• Very simple Windows-based format
• High take up amongst staff (low fear factor)

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Course Folders
Course Resource Repository
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Course Folders
Student Messaging
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Course Folders
Assignments
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Moodle
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Discussion

• Get into groups of 3 and spend the remaining time
  discussing
• Your institutions current use of ILT
• Your own use of ILT
• Anything useful to borrow/steal from this morning
  to far?
• Any challenges you are facing in your own
  practice/teaching/institution

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