Chase March – Blog
Welcome to the sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find my various articles about a variety of topics (DJ Events and news, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more)
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Teachers and Students NEED Creativity!
I regularly think outside of the box and find ways to be creative in both my personal and professional life. I often have co-workers comment about how creative I am. The thing often unsaid in these conversations is that they don’t see themselves as creative and they wish they could do these kind of activities
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Rap Music and Street Consciousness
Rap Music and Street Consciousness by Cheryl L. Keyes I enjoy reading scholarly work on rap music and hip-hop culture. This is the second book I’ve read from this author. Her book, Black Noise is also a great read and I would recommend both. I like how she addressed the constant criticism this music gets
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Social Media and Print Media Converge in CREATIV
These are the first two issues of Creativ Magazine, an ambitious project to celebrate creativity in all its forms. In a day and age where many print publications are going belly up and others switching over to being completely digital, it’s a bold move. The magazine highlights creative people in sports, music, painting, photography, film,
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Updated – Free Method Book for Beginning Band
My favourite resource for teaching instrumental music is a long out-of-print book called Band Fundamentals in Easy Steps. I absolutely love it. It is organized brilliantly, starts out students with pieces they can immediately have success on, and it introduces new notes and topics at a good pace. I have tried out other method books
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Chasing Content – May 2014
Blog posts get buried in the archives so quickly. That is why once a month, I look back at the posts that were published exactly a year ago with a little feature called Chasing Content. You can read all of the posts from last May, or just these presonal favourites. When Will I Ever Use
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WWW: Series Concludes with Wonder
Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer Most science fiction tends to demonize any kind of intelligence that arises from a machine. I don’t know why but self-aware robots, intelligent computers, or artificial intelligence lifeforms always end up becoming evil in these stories. That’s not the case with this story, however. This is the final chapter in a