Tennessee Arts Academy
Belmont College, Nashville, Tennessee

Teaching Music with Twenty-First Century Tools

Session V: Distance Learning Tools

Kimberly C. Walls
Friday, June 27, 1997

Distance learning technologies have revolutionized our society since the invention of the telegraph and the radio, and they promise to continue changing us through the Internet and interactive TV. The technologies can be beneficial educationally, and they can waste immense amounts of time. The Internet provides lots of music education information for free if you know how to find it. The net also makes it possible to stay in touch with others and even make music together although the musicians are in different locations. Although the net is becoming easier and cheaper to use, we must be careful to insure that everybody in our society can have access to the information.

Music Education Examples of Distance Learning
View/place educational materials on the Internet
Communicate with others
Teach/learn long-distance
Make music together
Types of Resources
Email
News groups
World Wide Web
Audio and video phone
What Do I Need?
Computer
Modem (at least 28,000 bps)
Internet account
Software
Email
News
Web browser (plugins and helpers)
Phone software
How To:
Create a music web page
Get wired
Software Used
Netscape
Eudora