Chapter 3 #3 pg.143

Yes, I do believe that technology can help assess the musical performances. I think that by video taping/ and recording the performance can greatly enhance the assessment process. If you video tape the concert, then the teacher can go back to the performance and assess things on each student that they might not have noticed at that particular time. For instance, posture, placement technique, and the teacher can also go back and look at how the choir had been presenting and behaving themselves. I also feel that it is important to record any concert, so that not only the teacher but so that both the teacher and the choir can reflect on what happened during the concert. I think it would be a good idea to have to students listen to their performances after the concert and possibly write three things they felt were done well during the concert and three things that could have been improved.

I do not think that technology threatens the authenticity in the general music class. Technology is the future, and I think that in general music courses that it would be a good idea to use such things, that can also be assessed. For example, there are so many new things that computers can do that deal with music. You can have your students compose a little tune and then show them how to convert it onto something like finale. Then, you can not only assess them on how their composition came out, but on their skills for using finale. This might actually help some students that may not be wonderful at composing.