special thanks to...

This is a LIST of useful sites that I just used for class assignment.
Some of them are very easy for using while the others are not.



http://fotoflexer.com/
http://picasion.com/
http://gifsun.org/
http://www.nyu.edu/its/software/
http://interactimage.com/
http://itune.com/
http://www.squared5.com/
http://www.gimp.org/

Multicultural Education Thru the ARTs

Arts has been created even before the recorded history by all cultures and by men and women and by both men and women. So, through the arts, students will learn that art is created not only by a single person, but also by groups and communities in an effort to better understand and tolerate multi-cultural differences.
Teaching through the arts requires students to engage in the act of creating art and helps students experience concepts rather than simply discussing or reading about them.
The arts can tell stories through music, plays, folk stories, dance, and visual art. Art can give students a visual representation of what life looks like in a culture. Music can do the same aurally. The arts can explain how the cultural aspects all work together. Students can discover how our perception of a work of art is influenced by what we know about the time and place it was created. Political, environmental, and cultural differences can be exploited through the arts. Students can learn how to see the world of art as inclusive, rather than exclusive, and open to a wider variety of influences, genres, media, and style than before. The arts can also bring a problem to light and unite a group of people for a cause. Teaching art from a multicultural point of view can enhance art curricula by celebration diversity and promoting social equity for all students.
As an art educators to recognize and respect not only the sociocultural diversity that may be present in the classroom, but also to design and implement culturally responsive art curricula.

Multiculturalism

Multi means many, and according to Sir Edward B. Tyler, culture defines as culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. And University of Wyoming defined Culture as, the values, traditions, norms, customs, arts, history, folklore, and institutions that a group of people who are unified by race, ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion share. The goals of multicultural education are multicultural knowledge, educational equity, working with cultural pluralism, empowerment, and social action. Through the education, students will understand, learn, relate, connect, synthesize, compare, transfer, respond, and express.
Technology and multicultural education can be important in engaging students around cultural artifacts to help facilitate and bridge access to language, literacy, math, science, and the arts.

Next Mozart

hate concrete music

I'm so tired..
I feel like crying...........

I had been working on "concrete music" for more than 5 hours. Every time when I open "Audacity", it's working for the track that I put for playing but when I select some area for editing, it's not working properly. I keep reading the help page of usage but just don't know WHY.
In classroom, it looked very simple and easy. But at home, it always gives me such a hard time!!

Among the assignments, this one, "concrete music" is the most difficult one for me. By chance, very fortunately, I succeed to copy and paste and re-create additional audio tracks!!
It took 2 more hours to finish the assignment.
I'm listening the newly created audio file now... This work is highly unsatisfactory!
I think no one can like my concrete music but I can't do it anymore.
I feel soooo badn... T,.T

Team Project

Professor John Gilbert assigned me as a member of BLUE team for the group project. Gregory and JungMin are the same team with me. Three of us discussed to decide the theme for our team and presentation. We are suppose to make 8 slides Powerpoint, and/or website for reference information.

It took just few minutes to decide the theme. All three of us agreed on the idea of "Multi-Culturalism". I am satisfied with our subject of multiculturalism, because I always think about the differences between cultures and harmonies of them. We devided each person's role for preparation, and I took a charge of gethering reference videos and music files of multiculturalism. I think I can introduce the music video that I posted, whice is called B-Boy with Cannon. Nice~ ^^

B-Boy Cannon by Korean KaYaKeum

Making Homepage

I have never made any kinds of websites before.

All I have done were just signed up for the membership of websites such as "cyworld" or "facebook" so I could be provide some spaces to put things on the pages. And it is very easy and simple to do so. Just log on to my own page and click upload, then upload any files that I like and write some comments. That's it!!

However,,,
making my own homepage by using HTML code is pretty hard and complicated!!
It was easy at the beginning... simply create new pages by duplicating previous page. Copy and paste any codes that I need and just change the file names. Upload some musics or images for future use. Very very simple!!
NOW, I need to make some tables to organize things by using and . It is too complicate to calculate rows and cells, open close , open , and then close it again...
I don't even know what i'm doing now!! I'm completely lost! T,.T
And moreover, I need to make a movie through the program called "movie maker"! How can I make a movie not by using camcorder but by using images on the computer??
Everything is so confused............

music education & technology

Applying technology has improved teaching and learning in music education.

There was a limit chance of listening music unless I buy all CDs or tapes. When I was 12 years old, I had music class and teacher asked students to listen 7 musics for the final exam. I was able to listen only 5 musics due to the lack of source. The first time I listened the other two musics was on final exam day. I used to be wanted to compose a music while I was riding in car and listen my piano playing right after I played a music. However, I needed pencil and notebook to compose a music and complex process required to record musical performance at that time.

Todays, we have mp3 player which allow us to download all music that we want to listen. Laptop, portable composer, digital piano, and easy recording system has solved those problems that I had before. Therefore, applying technology has acceleratedly improved teaching and learing in music education by saving time and breaking lack of sources.

music & technology

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My first own piano was given to me as a birthday gift at the age of five. I was surprised and could not believe that those keyboards make tones of sounds. And I have never thought how Music Technology would be developed.

Music Technology has been developed over time. Through the computer age, the ontological range of music technology has dramatically increased. For example, computer software such as playback, recording, composition, storage, and performance are now available and those are even in development condition to create more features. Not only computer programs has contributed to develop the Music Technology, but also instrumental technologies has been contributed by inventing new technological music instrument such as digital piano and electronic guitar. Music Technology is valuable and taught in many colleges and universities today. It is tremendously expectable to see what comes next!

Learning Technology in class

The computer is one of the most important elements of my daily life. I use computer every day and night, from the moment that I wake up until go to bed. I send emails, listen to music, watch tv, download files, and place orders for shop. However, making my own homepage by using "html" is a new exprience to me.
It seemed like very easy to me at the first time to create a space called "index" which was the main page of other resources. means headline, as well as