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Dr. Eileen Council / ecouncil@uarts.edu / 215.717.6432
Program Director

Description

This program is offered in partnership with Soundtree and the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME), a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation registered in the state of Pennsylvania whose mission is to assist music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning in music. TI:ME develops standards and course materials for music technology in-service training and maintains a certification program. TI:ME has been in existence since 1996.

TI:ME is a five-course, consecutive curriculum that was created in 1995 to address the following areas:

• Need to codify technology into a cohesive set of standards.
• Need for the development of comprehensive curriculum for in-service teacher training in music technology.
• Need to develop a certification process to recognize the achievement of in-service music teachers in music technology.

The SoundTree Institute has been at the forefront of this movement, and the TI:ME curriculum has been utilized by music specialists and K-5 classroom teachers with an interest in music technology across the country.

The University of the Arts has partnered with the SoundTree Institute to offer these courses for graduate credit, online as well as in regionally based national locations for one-week summer intensive courses. Educators who complete the five course series will receive both official certifications from TI:ME as well as the University of the Arts Graduate Certificate in Music Technology.

This certificate is for in-service teachers. Courses within this certificate may also fulfill requirements of the Music Technology concentration in the MEd in Educational Program Design program.

Program Objectives

Students will:

• Learn about the variety of systems for educators designed to integrate musical instruments, audio components, video production tools, computers and software that can be used to support music curriculum.
• Describe several ways to use music notation software to enhance teaching and learning.
• Demonstrate skills in using music notation software to transcribe standard repertoire from the public domain and create new arrangements or compositions.
• Learn how to connect to and use instructional materials from the Internet.
• Learn to author multimedia projects which include text, graphics, video, and sound in the digital domain.
  Learn to create and use multimedia presentations and standards based, interactive lessons which are appropriate for the K-12 music classroom.

Program Requirements (15 Credits)