Test your ears on this Scale Ear Trainer which forms part of Ricci Adams excellent theory site. There’s much more to the site than this but, for it to be really useful to pupils, I feel I need to prepare some introductory material to smooth over the differences in UK and US nomenclature.

Many guitarists involved in tuition at school become experienced over the years in reading both traditional musical notation and TAB. Occasionally you can sense a drift in focus, during which errors and omissions begin to occur.
The best fix for this, whether in notation or TAB, is to ask pupils to recite the note names or […]

When we talk about social networking, are we sending out the right signals? At the Thinkuknow training session in Perth this month I was struck by how much we tend to emphasis the dangers whilst barely acknowledging the benefits.
The Thinkuknow training session in Perth last night started by covering some of the same ground as […]

Jim in The Highlands was quick to note Channel 4’s move from £6m per year on educational television programming to a large part of £6m per year on online educational programming. Is educational TV dead on C4? Not quite, but it’s certainly undergone some serious surgery to make it recognisable to a 2008 teen. Channel […]

How many epiphanies are you allowed in a lifetime? Assuming that the answer is - as many as you’re prepared to let in - then, are they likely to have anything in common?
I’d say that the common factor in all those moments when I was struck by something so meaningful that it should really have […]

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It was just a matter of time… the students have started really turning the tables on the teachers with the launch of a new blog dedicated to looking at education from a pupil’s point-of-view!
As some of you may know, I had the privilege of teaching Sean (The Bass Player) last year. Although not the most […]

Tess Watson over in East Lothian spent yesterday playing with her new PSPs, but also managed to experiment with colleague Ollie Bray with using Glow on the portable gaming console. Another great excuse reason to get PSPing in your classrooms! Ollie explains a bit more about what the PSP project involves.

Since launching earlier this week the Student 2.0 blog has really pulled in the crowds. Sean is one of the eight highly readable and thought-provoking students having his say on education, and he’s from Perth, Scotland! Until now he had been publishing his thoughts on his own blog, but is now getting an even greater […]

As I’ve mentioned before I post a set of interesting links onto LTS’s Masterclass community every week or so. Masterclass is still looking for new members. I thought that the links I just posted there give a fair flavour of what is going on in some of the educational blogosphere and that I might share […]