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=Music Media Literacy= About this site: This wiki begins as a workspace for developing workshop ideas for classes on media literacy & music with 9th grade urban Arts students, and hopefully ends as a resource for educators and perhaps a document of the staff and student experience. Tanya, Nuala, & Mike will post and edit ideas on the site to build, conduct, and document the workshops.
 * ====**Where?** CAPA (Creative & Performing Arts High School), 901 S. Broad Street====
 * Enter in the Christian street door and security will direct you to the office. They will call Scott from there.
 * ====**When?** May 24-28, plus follow up class sometime in early June====
 * ====9:35-10:25am, Mon, Thurs, Fri====
 * ====9:20-10:40, Tues.-Wed.====
 * ====**Who?**====
 * ====Students: 9th Grade "Intro to Multimedia & TV Production" CAPA students (30 total), all Theater majors====
 * ====admitted to CAPA (public school magnet) with 80+ percentile standardized test scores B GPA minimum and an audition/portfolio; CAPA students major in creative writing, dance, visual arts, theater, instrumental music, vocal music, or film (new! Media classes used to be electives, but Scott has a new major for Film).====
 * ====Teacher: Scott Kaufman, Multimedia & TV Production====
 * ====Temple Media Education Lab Team: Tanya Jackson, Nuala Cabral, Mike RobbGrieco====
 * ====**What?** A week of music media literacy classes to inform a positive hip hop music production unit (using Garageband), culminating in a performance (competition?) with feedback from Media Education Labsters.====

=Resources to get started= //Lets try to make the following stuff common texts for us to draw on as we begin to think about our week at CAPA (Scott was exposed to these materials a few years ago at the workshop as well).//
 * //HipHop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes// by Byron Hurt (56min, DVD in MELab; link to entire film here)
 * ITVS study guide for //BBR// (link)
 * MEL 2007 Teacher Workshop //Thinking Beyond Beats & Rhymes// (link)
 * Take a look at the objectives and the blurbs about the six sessions (linked at bottom of the MEL page)
 * Detailed synopsis for Beyond Beats & Rhymes [[|BBR_synopsis_v2.rtf]], please download and print for reference
 * Clips (7min) from //High Fidelity// (2000) by Stephen Frears (link)
 * introduces several key ml & media studies concepts related to music (//I have a high quality copy of this we can use in class//--miguelito)
 * Music videos for What's Copyright? and User's Rights, Section 107; related curricula from MEL project (link)
 * //I think with hip hop, we should definitely discuss sampling and appropriation as skills with legal/ethical issues. In addition to considering using the songs and adapting parts of the curricula to get kids using fair use & copyright concepts, I could also discuss composing the songs (which I did on Garageband) as a way to transition to thinking as songwriters/producers--miguelito.//

=Other Related Resources= //Post anything that you'd like to share that can be useful for developing our workshops. We can move these things to other pages as ideas take shape.//
 * Top 5 Songs at my Funeral Using Music for Critical Inquiry (RobbGrieco presentation NMEC 2007, [|Top5_musicprez_NMEC07.ppt])
 * //gives theory frame to the activities I did with high school students music & ML, including high fidelity stuff--mig//
 * Challenges & Opportunities of Remix Practice for Education (RobbGrieco NCTE presentation 2009, [|Remix-Education_RobbGrieco_NCTE09-2.ppt])
 * //the videos aren't embedded--I'll bring them on a flash--mig//)
 * I really love the 33 1/3 series of books (stories of how great records were made); there's one on Tribe Called Quest that I'll try to hunt down
 * Nick Hornby's //Songbook// has a bunch of short reflections on music with a cd, not much (any?) hiphop, but maybe worth a look

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