A Diva Completes the Technology Course

   Throughout this course, I have been amazed over and over again at the sheer amount of music technology programs that not only exist, but that can be accessed for free and on a large number of devices. For our final week's lecture, Dr. Bazan discussed how technology can assist students and teachers. As much as we complain about technology, and how it overruns our lives, there are many programs that are actually designed to make our teaching lives easier.

          Programs such as the Microsoft suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) can help with reports and projects. Email and social networks make it easier and faster to communicate with students and other teachers. There is a multitude of schedule and calendar software, some of which you can use to sync with your family or even your co-workers. There are video conferencing programs (Skype, FaceTime), and programs that teachers can use to have students submit homework and projects. All of these programs don't even being to touch on the multitude of subject-specific programs, such as the music programs we've learned about in this class that we can incorporate into our own classes.

          Dr. Bazan states in the lecture that there is little doubt that technology and schools will forever be intertwined. It's important to teachers to use that connection, and the technology available to us, to enhance our lessons and classes. Althought it may take time initially to get some programs set up for use in your classroom, the time that these programs can save you in the future is incalculable.

          It's hard to believe that this course is already coming to an end; it has certainly been a very fast 7 weeks! I have enjoyed learning more about the digital world of music, and all that is available to me. I am currently applying to several schools for next school year and hopefully, come September, I will have a classroom to call my own and I can begin to incorporate some of what I have learned throughout this course.