A series of four presentations from the recent http://amis-online.org Music Educators conference in Poland. Hosted by the American School of Warsaw and attended by educators all over the world. These are my slides from each workshop.

1. Saturday Session 5, 15.45 - 16.45
Theatre Space
@wrightstufmusic
Mussorgsky Minecraft

2. His music sounds
so cool. How do I
write music like that?
Anakin Grade 4
”
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3. BBC3 Gymnopédie.
Story of Music in 50 Pieces.

4. Minecraft Music by C14

5. Lesson Structure
To begin with, each of my lessons involves the
following activities before technology is introduced.

10. Create Games
Using games to establish creativity is essential. It
enables good technology use & imagination.

11. What is an iBook?
The ultimate ePortfolio.

14. Creative of the year
Best use of Hype Animation
Best iBook of 2016 (Fiction)

15. Learning Made Visible
Imagine both your learning and the learning
of your students visible for the world?

16. How to ‘iBooks’
1.
2.
3.
What will students learn with you?
How will it apply in the real world?
What resources will you share?

17. Do you plan for these?
Summatives can
lead to the …
Real World
where we …
Publish
and Share.

18. The Catch.
The teacher has to do the project first.

23. Student Created Work with the Orff
Approach and Technology.
Mussorgsky

24. THEME &
VARIATIONS
UNIT PROGRESSION
FAIRYTALE
COMPOSITIONS
PAINTING MUSIC
• Puccini
• Video Examples
• Beethoven
• Mozart
• Mussorgsky
• Debussy
• Schoenberg

25. • Fragment
• Augment
• Repeat
• Accompany

26. Fairytales Course
Imagine both your learning and the learning of
your students visible for the world?

27. Photos of students with their teachers completing the task of composing from
this presentation. #ISB-AMIS-Conference

28. Activity 1.
Orff Improvisation on a story.

34. Photos of students with their teachers collaboratively completing the task of
composing from this presentation. #ISB-AMIS-Conference

35. Minecraft
Student Created Work with the Orff
Approach and Games.

37. https://education.
minecraft.net/

40. Activity 2.
Listening and establishing rules with
BookCreator.
Texture Activity Game.

41. THREE rules
for gaming
in-class made by
Grade 3 & 4
students.

42. 1. Challenge?
2. Choice?
3. What Changed?

43. Assessment in
Game Based
Learning.
Editors: Ifenthaler,
Eseryel, Ge
Springer 2012.

44. And this applies
to the music and
what is heard in
the game too!

45. Everything links back to
creativity as a cycle of inquiry.

46. Activity 3.
Satie Score Work with Gymnopedie and
Gnossienne No.1.
Satie Score Improvisation.

53. Activity 4.
Minecraft Composition in GarageBand.
Use the ideas you have discovered to write
for a Minecraft Video!

54. Student group improvisation.

55. Adding in modal elements.

56. To get the ‘sound’ of Minecraft use
GarageBands’ Keys options.

57. To record video of Gameplay use
Quicktime (free) or Screenflow (advanced).

58. Thank you
wrightstuffmusic.com
Music Educator @ Amadeus International
School Vienna