My project is ready : “Essential skills for the modern musician”.

~ mitchelljamesdavis

That’s right. While it may seem like a quick turn around from posting about my project on Monday, once again I have decided to only put my best foot forward when blogging about it. Full disclosure, yes I had started some of the process of creating the Ibook when blogging about the completion of the video series (show business is all about creating illusion and entertainment). Here is the completed Ibooks version for your entertainment. Below I will discuss the making of the resource, particularly how I decided to use specific Ibooks features and how the video series I created remains the focal point with the Ibook format as an embellishment.

Front Cover

This is my first time creating an Ibooks resource, and I thoroughly enjoyed using it, knowing that it would create a good looking piece of work. Our lecturer James created a youtube playlist of Ibook tutorials which I took note of, however reminding myself that I will need to pick and choose from all of the possibilities (just as I mention in the music theory intro video that music theory is a set of tools that you can pick and choose from). Most notably, use of the widgets function allowed for video and images throughout the resource. In sum, the features I used from Ibooks author really comes down to embedding the videos I created throughout, along with images sourced from copyright free sources, and text boxes to supplement and further explain/consolidate the content from the video and image sources. As mentioned in my previous post, most of the production value here comes from the video series, with the Ibook mainly as a format of presentation.

Video Page Example
Images and text example
My personal favourite part of the resource. Arguably the highest production value is contained in this video.

I am proud of this resource, it has achieved what I set out to create. Within the five areas of music theory, learning, performing, songwriting, and recording, I have touched on the fundamentals and given some details, without going to overly extensive lengths of any specific examples, since the resource should be accessible to musicians with interest in any instrument and genre.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading, this is more than likely the last post related to work in this class (technology in music education), however I may revisit this blog whenever I discover an interesting piece of tech that I could use for my future career as a music educator.

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Mitchell Davis

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Mitchell Davis is currently a music education student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, born in 1997 in Sydney. Following a positive experience with music education in primary and secondary school combined with a personal interest in music as an art form and pastime, the decision to become a secondary school music teacher was naturally made. Complimentary to studying music education, Mitchell also holds ongoing experience working casually in a youth centre in his home town of Liverpool, New South Wales. After studying a Certificate IV in Youth Work, It was here that he initially found his confidence and appreciation for working with young people to achieve positive outcomes, predominately running various sport and recreational youth programs both in local Liverpool school environments and at the youth centre's facilities. Mitchell's specific area of musical expertise is in contemporary popular music. He is a guitarist and songwriter who enjoys genres such as heavy metal, extreme metal, hard rock, blues and pop. He has begun to write, release and perform his original music in order to gain greater experience in the world of contemporary music and give more value to his skills in becoming a music educator.

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