I loved the Daily Connect suggested by @dogtrax where we were invited to write something and various long-established writers would also contribute. It took me back to childhood days of playing on our Texas Instruments computer with a programme called Eliza. As far as I was concerned it was a great game where you had …
Session 4 is up and this week’s tasks are about connecting the dots. We hear perspectives from three different violinists (from L.A., Hawaii, and the UK) about how they connect their learning talking from Twinkle Twinkle to Paganini. Listen, explore, experiment… All the sessions are under the MUS654 tab: …or you could go …
This is a story of a connection that spans time, continents, and generations. It started with a glance at my ‘others’ message box on facebook. You know, if you aren’t friends with someone (and yes, my security settings are that way inclined) then if they message you it stays hidden in this ‘other’ box without …
No such thing as a free lunch? (1-2 min read) Nope, they definitely got that one wrong. This is my story of the fantastic random act of kindness the fish lady bestowed on me yesterday… On Friday at the university where I work there was a sort of food fair, and besides all the free …
Over the past month I have had the privilege of going to both the University East Anglia and the University of the West of England to speak and give people the experience of learning through doing something new – playing music. The f2f interaction and the tactile experience is magic. I love it and would …
1 min read Just up! What makes a melody? It’s week two of MUS654 in Chichester (England), and the second session is here! … well on the link above (or via the dropdown menu), and it starts like this: Pitch is everywhere… How are pitch and melody related? Last week you we explored the experience …
(in response to the #ccourses question Why do you teach?) 1 min read This is me: I have always been hungry – hungry to learn, hungry to know and connect to people, and hungry for homemade chocolate chip cookies (I completely blame my sugar-coated childhood for that one). As for the question why? Why is one …
(1 min read) It’s Monday, school run time, running late – and a bit of idle chit-chat with the teaching assistant just closing the waist-high iron gate behind us and said: ‘Our biggest boy starts college this week. Can you believe it? Full time and he is only there two days a week. Full time?!’ …
Box photo credit: CC licensed http://bit.ly/1qAx7r4 Please sir, do not put me in a box. On the way to check out of my B&B accommodation this morning I found myself carrying rather a lot: overnight bag and the chunky wooly jumper in one hand, cello in the other, handbag slung across my body, …