Over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to teach music. I never thought I would enjoy it so much as I have at the Recorder and iPad music clubs. I actually have a music background and I submajored in music and taught guitar at one stage while at college. My own music playing began with the recorder so I realise the value it had for me in the later years of music learning.
Playing music was always a way to tune out of the world and relax. To give my brain a rest from all the maths I would be doing as I majored in maths. Such a mix of subjects but I believe they are very intertwined. Music is full of maths and patterns.
We don't all have to end up on "You've got talent" or such TV shows or even become a professional musician. The joy from playing and creating music is enough for many without even performing for others. The next step for our musicians is to experience the feeling of playing with others. Then the fun begins and music comes alive.
Do you play an instrument that you have never owned up to?
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Passions
I'm pleased to let you all know that yesterday I was officially accepted to present at Miami Device a mobile tech conference in Nov. It was exciting also because the acceptance was sent as a video message to the presenters that were accepted. So I'll show you sometime this week. My sessions are - Get Real Maths and Coding as Easy as 123.
For those who don't know I do have a global personal learning network of over 3000 teachers who I talk to mainly with twitter but also now using voxer. I am also a founding member of slide2learn a group of teachers around Australia who were the first in organising an Australia wide conference for mobile tech in learning back in 2010. That was in the iPod days. This year our conference is in Sydney at a posh college in the heart of the CBD. We have international speakers coming whom I've met a couple of time in the US and UK.
My other passion is for publishing a podcast and actually I am involved in two podcasts. One is called RUConnected that I put together with Lois Smethurst at Berwick Lodge in VIC. The second is called AU2AZ and I co-present with Rodney Turner a teacher and IT Guru in Phoenix Arizona. Both podcasts are available in the iTunes store. I think our RUC has been downloaded over 8000 times and we are up to our 70th episode. AU2AZ is fairly new and we are up to episode 11. It's a little bit more complicated to get a time that suits here and Arizona as we use skype.
What are you passionate about? Do you share your passion with your students?
For those who don't know I do have a global personal learning network of over 3000 teachers who I talk to mainly with twitter but also now using voxer. I am also a founding member of slide2learn a group of teachers around Australia who were the first in organising an Australia wide conference for mobile tech in learning back in 2010. That was in the iPod days. This year our conference is in Sydney at a posh college in the heart of the CBD. We have international speakers coming whom I've met a couple of time in the US and UK.
My other passion is for publishing a podcast and actually I am involved in two podcasts. One is called RUConnected that I put together with Lois Smethurst at Berwick Lodge in VIC. The second is called AU2AZ and I co-present with Rodney Turner a teacher and IT Guru in Phoenix Arizona. Both podcasts are available in the iTunes store. I think our RUC has been downloaded over 8000 times and we are up to our 70th episode. AU2AZ is fairly new and we are up to episode 11. It's a little bit more complicated to get a time that suits here and Arizona as we use skype.
What are you passionate about? Do you share your passion with your students?
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