Music Igniter Day 7: Leadership & group skills
Music Igniter Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot. Day 7: Participants will look at leadership, planning, behaviour and groupwork skills. We drove down to Stoke to investigate …
Finally google are showing community arts blogs on their search engines!!
Yippe!! Been waiting ages for Google to check and add community arts blogs to their blog search engine. It all depends on bloggers to submit …
Dilemmas, shouting and more work in the pipeline
I am in a bit of turmoil as to whether I go for the PGCE/GTP or keep going as a free-lancer. The arguments for both …
Music Igniter Day 6: Ensemble & performance: participants will do practical workshops involving leading groups towards improvised performance.
Sid Peacock joined us to show us some workshop delivery techniques in improvisation using graphic scores, and lots of other fun ideas. We then spent …
Music Igniter Course Day 5 Songwriting: working in small groups students will devise a number of songs from different starting points.
We looked at different ways in getting participants to compose original pieces. Firstly we did some vocal exercises with PM using pentatonic scales. He played …
The Sound Health Series
An interesting read on how music can improve student’s cognitive abilities. Maybe I should play some classical or baroque music in my troublesome schools.
Update
Things are continuing to go well; I shall be doing some summer projects with Birmingham City Council’s Youth Services and LACES (Looked after children). I …
Perry Beeches School First Workshop in April ’07
DSCN1777 Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot. I am working with the Performing Arts teacher of Perry Beeches School to give some of the year 8 and …
Links to other blogs by Musicians who are Music Leader members
It was good to see Music Leader encourage musicians to get involved with blogging, probably for some a good while but I only noticed this …
