Art+and+Music+Technology+Integration

Internet Integration

 * Problem:** Students live in a rural school district with the nearest professional art gallery hours away. Consequently, students' exposure to art is limited.


 * Integration Strategy:** Students can access great works of art through gallery and organization websites.


 * Relative Advantage:** Students can access art in a way that's conducive to their own schedule outside of class and without having to pay a fee. Students also have the advantage of seeing special exhibitions online that they might have to travel several hours to see or that may only be available outside the normal school year calendar.


 * Expected Outcome:** Students will be exposed to a wider variety of art that might have been otherwise thought imaginable.


 * Resources:**
 * [|Vatican Museums] Official Web site of the //Vatican Museums//. Information on the cultural heritage and the art of the Holy See, virtual tours, collections, and the Sistine Chapel.
 * [|Guggenheim Museum] Modern and contemporary international art. Located in Manhattan, //New York//.
 * [|Louvre Museum] Established in 1793 by the French Republic, the Louvre Museum is one of the earliest European art museums.
 * [|Crystal Bridges] //Crystal Bridges// Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
 * [|Metropolitan Museum of Art] This //museum// in New York, New York has large collections of ancient //art//, including Greek, Roman and Near Eastern.

Tool Based Software

 * Problem:** Music students are having a difficult time grasping the introductory concepts of music theory and notation.

Students will use tool based software package that will assist them in rearranging and simplifying musical notation.
 * Integration Strategy:**


 * Relative Advantage:** Assists teachers with theory lessons and assists with student performance.


 * Expected Outcome:** Teachers are able to offer additional reinforcement for students in learning the introductory concepts of music theory. Students gain additional practice in writing and rearranging musical scores through music composition software.

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 * Resources:**
 * Sibelius The world's best-selling //music notation software//. Sibelius is the easy way to write, refine, hear, scan and print beautiful scores.
 * Finale Finale, the world standard for //music notation software//, lets musicians compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.
 * Ars Nova Comprehensive //music// theory and ear training software.
 * eMusic Theory eMusicTheory.com provides online tools for teachers and students.

Instructional Software

 * Problem:** Students are having trouble getting the hang of the 3-D modeling features for an advanced graphic design class.


 * Integration Strategy:** Students will gain additional practice through the use of 3-D instructional software and tutorials until they master the basic concepts for the modeling assignment.


 * Relative Advantage:** Software allows students to work independently on improving skills outside of the classroom in a way that fits their schedules best. Builds on students' graphic design competencies.


 * Expected Outcome:** Students will have a better grasp of the advanced graphic design skill of 3-D modeling and be able to complete their class assignment on time.


 * Resources:**
 * Adobe Photoshop 3-D Tutorial All in one resource for Adobe Photoshop providing tutorials and practice lessons.
 * [|Google Sketch Up] //3D// Communication //software// for Design and Engineering Professionals.
 * Ulead Cool 3-D COOL //3D// Production Studio lets you reuse your native //3D// models in other high-end //3D modeling// software.
 * Adobe Photoshop Extended CS5 //Photoshop// Extended CS5 adds //3d// design and motion editing tools to the industry-standard //Photoshop// CS5.
 * Blender.org Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for //3D// creation.

Productivity Software

 * Problem:** After amassing many musical sources over the past few years, instructors have run out of storage space on the Music department server and may be faced with transferring some music to CD.


 * Integration Strategy:** Instructors will use cloud technology to house their vast educational music collection.


 * Relative Advantage:** Cloud storage allows for easy access from any location or classroom. Instructors can easily find the music source needed due superior search capabilities. Instructors do not have waste valuable time burning CDs.


 * Expected Outcome:** Instructors will be able to access their music collection from any location in the school. They will be able to properly organize the music and find the needed music in a matter of seconds rather than minutes if they had used CDs instead.


 * Resources:**
 * Music Bee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library
 * Amazon Cloud Drive //Amazon Cloud Drive// is your personal hard drive in the cloud. Store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon's secure servers.
 * Media Monkey Manage a movie / music library from 100 to 100000+ audio/video files and playlists
 * Orange CD Catalog OrangeCD Catalog is the advanced //music database software// for cataloging and organizing music collection in any format.
 * VisiTrax Organize your //music// CDs, //audio// files, records, tapes, and MP3s with VisiTrax for Windows.