This academic year I attempt to teach difficult topics that I have not done before. With such limited time that I have with my KS3 students (40 minutes and less than that a week!), I plan to use the little time that I have very wisely.
I’ve been exploring and still continuing to do so in expanding my repertoire of lesson materials in terms of technology use. It can be quite tricky to use free apps and sites to teach music as most of the time, the usage can be quite limited.
I used Kahoot to teach about rhythm values and symbols but I toyed with the idea of using it as a listening test tool. It was quite tedious as I had to record chords on iMovie and uploaded the sound as a video file on Youtube. Nonetheless, it gets the job done as Kahoot only accepts videos or images.
This Kahoot features 10 questions, each having its own video link on Youtube. The chords are played twice each time and at an appropriate speed. Each video lasts approximately 8 seconds whereas students get to answer it in 10 seconds.
Tonality Gym 1: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/37b93356-20d9-4d9e-9f02-2287255a68b6
I decided that one quiz was not going to be enough, so, I made two! The second Kahoot features lesser answer time; 5 seconds. It’s meant to be more challenging!
Tonality Gym 2: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/fbb45b82-64ad-455c-aa2c-275f76d3f6f6
I have yet to try these Kahoots out but I do hope to report a swell time that we will have in class.
Wait a minute!
I’m happy to share that I created a new Youtube channel dedicated to all my educational material. I hope that it would be an awesome collection and resource.
Ms Cherylyn’s Music Education Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxF4-7r8TAx0QPlJsz_Hujw
