Oxford Music Online and Google Docs

Upper School Strings came in this week to learn more about the composers for the music they play. Instructor Pam Kelly and I collaborated, using our new Oxford Music Online database to get the information they needed. Try it out from our databases page, it’s new, along with Oxford Art Online!

Students worked in groups to find biographical and historical references to the composer, time period, and frame of reference. I need to clean it up to make it easier to read, but here’s a link to the Google Doc. You can open it if you’re on campus.

Quidditch - Oct. 22

Join us for our first match against Enloe @ Fletcher Park at 10:30 AM.  For this match, we will be the Basilisks, so wear BLACK!


Bring water and your broom, and come at 9:45 to warm up.

Contact Mariel for details, her number is 618-5758.

How to get there:
http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts/content/PRecRecreation/Articles/FletcherPark.html

Video Taping for NBPTS

Fun stuff! Around this time of year, I get to sit in on Upper School classes. Depending on who is a candidate for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, I learn Biology, Physics, US History, English, or Art… I set up the camera so I can see faces of students and teacher with an easy pan of the room, and I have a boundary microphone to listen in on discussions.

I’ve learned a lot by taping teachers and being a National Board Candidate myself. I really wish that someone would have told me how to best videotape from the very beginning, so I’ve made a post with the steps here.