Pinterest in Education

It amazes me how much technology has made a difference in the education world as it slowly grows more accessible to every individual in the world. There are many out there that are just a golden area for ideas to benefit the classroom. In this case it is the social media website known as pinterest. Many women that I currently know have one and are constantly scanning it for everything from craft ideas to fundraising concepts. Pinterest has a lot of adaptability as far as what the users want to see. After cruising around on it myself for a little while I  found numerous amounts of ideas to include in my future classroom. There are websites for finding ideas and criteria for lessons, videos to show how students are reacting, and actual assignments that you can make and give your students. It is a great resource for future teachers just because there are lessons from every side of education. If you cannot find it there then you aren't looking hard enough. I could definitely use this in a music class to educate kids on everything from how to write music, too the childhood and history of our most prolific composers. It is amazing what a young mind can learn.

Here is an activity that I completed myself to make sure that I was as fluent in rhythm as I like to think I am:

The project was very simple, I just needed to match the words in the corresponding rhythmic columns. I tried sounding it out in my head, however it really helped to vocalize it out. That definitely made a difference.

The further I got the hungrier i became. It might be a wise idea to do this immediately following lunch so the kids don't get hungry.

The assignment the asked me to come up with my own words to follow the rhythmic patterns. This was a bit of a challenge, now that I knew how to put the words into the categories I had to think backwards with my own personal touch.

Of course I then confirmed with the grading rubric and got an adult to look over everything for me to make sure everything was right. I want an A of course!

If I were in a classroom setting we would then share our made up words with the rest of the class and then find a theme that everyone could use to use in depicting rhythm in the future. It was incredibly neat and I think that in the future I will use my own words and maybe a few others that I can make up to help my kids, as well as my bands, to help them understand rhythms on a higher ability.  

Here is the link if you want to look at the assignment yourself:

Rhythm Worksheet