Hi everyone! For this screencast, I decided to use my 10 years of music traing to teach everyone how to read off of the treble cleff. While I personally no longer practise music, music is still something I am very pasionate about and love. I also wanted to make sure my years of experience don’t go to waste (hahaha).
For this module, I decided to use a mixture of google slides, the screen recording feature on my iPad, and iMovie. I use to also have an interest in video editing so, the editing part was not to hard part. The hard part of this assignment was the voice over. This was my first time doing a voice over for any of my videos and I honestly found it a little bit challenging and slightly annoying to do. Going without a script was probably not the smartest idea since, I rerecorded over 10 times just to get it right.
During the module, all theories were rather intuitive to me since I had learn about all the theories mentioned before throughout my psychology journey and my personal favourite professor actually teaches about how we learn. However, if I were to think back to when I first learnt these theories, I would say the most intuitive one for me would be segmenting. I use to have a great love for biology and whenever I rewrote my notes (not a great study method btw), I would use segmenting. This was espcially helpful when we revisited old topics that I forgot about. The one that surprised me the most would be the redundancy principle. However, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense to me since the redundancy principle is what differentiates a good presentation from a bad one.
When creating my screencast, I was thinking about the kids that have never touched music. I imagined this was their first time encountering a treble cleff and they are just starting out in their music journey. Knowing this, I decided to keep my video extremely simple. While I understand this video may not be the most visually intriguing video, it is concise and straightforward. I also tried to present some ways to remember the notes since, those were tools I used when I did music. Even after many years, I would still verbally says “F-A-C-E” when reading my notes.
While I know the video is not a lot, I still hope everyone learnt something if this is new to you. If this isn’t, I hope it reminded you of when you first started to learn how to read music. 😀
Link to my comments:
Hey Natasha!
Thanks for teaching me about musical notes and reading music!
You did a great job keeping things very simple and direct. The visuals weren’t overly stimulating and they helped augment what you were trying to teach.
You mentioned you used to rewrite your notes, why do you think that isnt a great study method? Can you tie that into any theories we learned this module? (How that act doesn’t interact with these theories of learning?)
Hey, I really enjoyed your screencast! The tricks you gave to remember all the notes were super helpful, and the way you showed the notes on the clef while speaking made it so easy to follow. Showing each note individually and then bringing them all together was a great touch… and that totally ties into the Segmenting Principle from the module. Also, using both visuals and audio at the same time nailed the Dual Coding Theory, it made everything a lot clearer. Great job keeping it simple and super effective!