#week 10 reflection

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Week 10 Reflection

This week I want to make sure that I bring all my work together and start finalising everything.

This week I primarily worked on my final banner, which showcases my photography. I loved playing around with the different image layouts and the layering on text behind the images. I really like where I’m at with my banner so far. I love the bright yellow against the clear yellow text. I feel as though I need to do the final touches to finalise my banner and to make sure it is exactly how I want it to be.

I also started my final GIF outcome.... I really enjoyed making these GIFS. It was a bit more complicated than what I thought it was going to be. Having to make sure I save each frame how I want them to be saved. But I really love the outcome of it. I’m going to try and produce a couple more to maybe add to my final google sites.

This week I feel as though it was a really important week for pulling everything together. I have finished this week with a banner and GIF which I love and which I didn’t have at the start of the week. I’m happy with the progression I have made this week.

By the end of next week I really want to have all my final pieces done and so the following week will just be a case of double, triple checking that everything is completed.

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Music

Key elements:

Duration, pitch, tone colour, dynamic, structure

Music is easily tied to the other subject area of maths, explaining the fractional nature of timing and musical notation. Music is also crucial to the other arts areas of drama and media arts, providing an aural repetition or counterpoint to the emotional points. 

Lesson idea: Students select an poem from English and work out a beat and percussion accompaniment which will enhance the meaning of the piece. 

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Week 10

Due to the intensely cacophonic effects of a primary music class out of control, it is apparent that music as a discipline requires a more rigorous set of behaviour management tools than the other Arts areas. The technical skills involved are also such that it can be treated as an extension of “truly academic” subjects; repeated practice of the same piece yields more and more accurate results until students have ‘learned’ it, as is the case for uninspired maths and English lessons. Because of a tendency I have observed in my own schooling of music teachers to revert to a more ‘respectable’ way of teaching the subject, I feel very strongly now that music needs to be taught creatively, in such a way that students can gain a technical skill set while using music to express their own ideas and emotions in a healthy fashion. The physicality of drumkits and percussion instruments could be essential for kinaesthetic learners as well as students who in other classes are restrained from expressing themselves physically.