John F. Kennedy Center ARTSEDGE Virtual Music Education Conference . . . [MTG] (C)

• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 18:37:51 -0700

ARTSEDGE's first "Online Virtual Conference" on the topic:

"The Role of Technlogy in Elementary Music Education" will be active from
April 14 through May 30 at:

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/vc/vcmain.html

You can register for the listserv discussions for each of the presentations
at that address now, as well, to insure you don't miss any of the forums.

The Conference features presentations by:

- - Frances Rauscher, one of the researchers responsible for the study
(Shaw/Rauscher) showing that early music teaching positively influences
"spatial reasoning" ability.

- - Doug Goodkin, noted Orff educator an one of ten coauthors of the "Share
the Music" text series on the "Case for Caution" in using technology in
teaching elementary music.

- - A forum, including representatives of the major music software companies,
on the available technology for elementary music teachers.

- - Multimedia presentations

After the discussions are concluded, the procedings of this conference will
permanently remain at this URL.

There is a link to MuSICA on the "Related conference Links" page at:

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/vc/vclinks.html


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Kit Eakle
Program Manager
ARTSEDGE
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Washington, DC
202-416-8874
keakle@artsedge.kennedy center.org
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