Home The History of the Flute
Digital Story Audio Blog Lesson
Plan Links Quiz
Welcome to my website, “Flute
Playing for the Semi-Beginner.” This site is created as an
effort to
create learning opportunities for the 5th grade flute player. If
you play flute in your school band, this site will give you
opportunities to learn more about the flute and how to play it that
there isn’t much time for during the school day.
This website is beneficial for
tapping
into various Multiple
Intelligences as listed by educational researcher Howard Gardner.
Of Gardner’s MI seven of them are aided through activities on
this website. To start, verbal/linguistic learners will benefit from
the engagement in the audio podcast lesson plan and by reading and
interpreting web information. Visual/Spatial learners will
benefit from seeing the images of different flutes, the digital story
and from the easy to follow visual artwork of my website.
Bodily/Kinesthetic learners benefit because this student will use the
mouse to navigate the site to find info but must also play their flute
along with the activities of this site. Musical/Rhythmic
learners, of course, benefit from this site because students will be
using this site to learn best how to use inductive and deductive
reasoning through musical performance. The Intrapersonal learner
will benefit because this site engages them in self-reflection to
determine if they are learning the material correctly. Finally,
this site benefits the existentialist learner because the site provides
the opportunity to get a “big picture” of the flute by
being introduced to learning material regarding the flute that
wouldn’t typically get covered in the classroom.
This site involves the student in
critical thinking. This happens
when the student uses their intelligence and prior musical knowledge to
effectively deal with connecting the technical aspects of playing the
flute. Students also must think for themselves during these
learning opportunities to determine if they are on track; another
aspect of critical thinking.
This site was created based on the
Constructivist learning
theory. To expand, this site creates opportunities for students
to learn for themselves. They can use this knowledge later in their
course of musical study to better their musical performance. This
site also uses the Constructivist theory of constructing knowledge
because the student must use this website on their own by being
responsible for their own learning outcome. Also, the final lesson plan
is a group project , another feature of the Constructivist learning
environment.
This site is ADA compliment by
providing alternate text to support
images. Also, the provided lesson plan is in HTML format, which
is more useful for those with disabilities than a pdf document.
Finally, this site will be ADA Compliant by providing text captions for
the audio blog provided here.
This site exhibits good web design
for several reasons. To start,
it uses a consistent use of color and text font. Also, all text
and background colors are complimentray, yet contrasting. Any links are
well presented for quick
access and are labeled accordingly. All of these images are relevant to
the topic of the flute. Finally, the text is easy to read and is
not encumbered by clutter of text, images or flashing and blinking
images.
To start this site, I suggest you
start the lesson of the history of
the flute and all of the relatives in the flute family. Then go
to the digital story of great flautists. Next get your flute
ready for the audio blog on articulation. Try the lesson
plan
created for your lesson group where you can show everything
you’ve learned here by creating a podcast! At the very end,
feel free to take the quiz and go to the various links provided. The
most
important thing to do on this site is have fun, relax and hopefully,
you’ll learn something new about the flute!