"ILP" Design - Logic Pro X

Link to voicethread: https://voicethread.com/share/12187606/

Educational Content: https://soundcloud.com/thechampagneisnotalive/ilp-project/s-akI8D

For my project, I decided to do the design section with the digital audio workstation, Logic Pro X. Logic has been an integral part of my life, as I was a young kid who showed interest in music and the general creation of music. This can be utilized in the classroom in many ways, but as mentioned in the video, it is important to give young kids the opportunity to get creative in this fashion. Logic can be very fun for children and can be a cool skill for young kids to obtain.

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Learning to use Diigo has been a very interesting experience. My main dislike with the extension has to do with just the general fluency of it all. Sometimes it glitches and makes it nearly impossible for me to use. I do like the hands-on experience and being able to interact with other classmates within the plug in. 

So far blogging has been a very informative experience. I like being able to write and having guidelines to guide my thought process. I dislike the idea though that we have to follow certain protocols or we fail. I have learned throughout this experience that in order to be successful in this assignment, I must properly follow all of the guidelines

An interesting web 2.0 tool that we have not used in class is Skype. Skype is a way to communicate with your peers via video chat and phone call. It can be useful in the classroom, especially in a virtual learning environment. Skype can be helpful in communicating when it is not possible to speak in person. Here is a link to skype: https://www.skype.com/en/

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When I first downloaded Twitter, I was 14. I really had no idea what I was doing. Fortunately, I was able to communicate with some of my favorite artists from around the world, which I thought was super cool. Twitter is a great way to network in a not-so-serious way. You can use it as a casual way to communicate with people through hashtags and memes.

The digital divide is quite interesting. It affects students in school because some students can't afford the digital privileges some of us have. Poverty is a big cause of the digital divide and this is unfortunate due to the fact that it is just a class issue. When I am teaching I want to be mindful of if I am teaching children who can't afford any of this.

Software-wise, I want my students to be able to experience Microsoft home. I would like my students to use these because they are essential to having an educational career, as we generally use these. I would also like my children to have kindle. Kindle is the future and will keep students interested in reading. I believe reading to be an essential part of learning consistently, as well as creativity.

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I personally feel like I would be a solid high school teacher. This is due to the fact that I feel that I am not too great with smaller children and can relate more to high school kids. Kids in high school just generally are snarkier and I feel like I would be able to talk to them as if they were adults and they would appreciate that. Sometimes high school students think they are smarter than everyone and I have been there so it would be a solid fit.
The C-palms tool I feel I could best utilize as a musical educator is MU.912.C.1.3. This tool is utilized to section off instruments and to group them by their common traits and world influence. This will be important as a musical educator because my students will have to understand the origin of these instruments in order to play and understand them. This tool will be utilized to help my students become more cultured with the instruments they play.
I feel like the newsletter taught me a great deal on how to organize a newsletter for my future students. I learned how to use columns which was extremely helpful. I also got frustrated by the tediousness of the assignment tools as sometimes they would not function in the way I wanted to. All in all it was a fun assignment in which I learned new skills.

Using Microsoft word as a student is a pretty common practice. While growing up, most of my teachers made me use word, although I hated it. Now it seems like a very useful skill to have. This is due to the fact that it is just so common in today's workforce.

Copyright and fair use are an interesting topic that goes along with all this. It is very important to know when you are infringing and when you are not. Today, many people make youtube videos that get copystrike marks on them because they don't know how to utilize fair use. In general it is widely accepted through use of parody law and other similar ventures. Just don't be so blatant is my point.

In order to fix academic dishonesty we need to hold the students accountable. We also need to dive deeper into the psychology of it and figure out what made these students feel a lack of motivation with their work. Lack of funding is a tough problem to fix because it is institutionalized. I think that in general if our school board is more mindful of where they put their money then it can be fixed to some degree.