Third-Stream Music Education

Student Blogs, Sequel Part 2

December 9th, 2009

After the first day of the new student e-portfolio system, we have limited success.

The students reported no problem using Audacity. The laptops and their built-in mics worked. Most students set an appropriate gain level and made high-fidelity recordings (the performances recorded, however, seem to represent a wider range of quality!) Exporting to .mp3 format had the minor flaw of consistently causing Audacity to crash…but only after successfully completing the export (it is a known flaw in the Audacity 1.3 beta).

The major hiccup of the day was students’ ability to log in to our Sharepoint server. After several calls to our tech department, I think that is fixed. The major effect of this is that students were unable to upload their recordings and type in their self-critiques before the end of class.

The other half of my Advanced Band will run the gauntlet tomorrow. I’ll report back later this week.

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