I was able to check out a little of the website and it looks helpful and creative. It doesn’t matter who you are, you can have your own sound, your voice." Music is raw emotion, we can all listen to it and love it, and what an amazing opportunity to bring the ability to create your own music to people, both young and old. What an amazing talk, and it really did hit me how right he was. It was clear that he had picked every single word carefully, and not only did he talk, he played piano, he acted and we all sang together. He painted a picture of how music lifts us emotionally, can describe so much with sound, not words, and brings out our true selves. Hepburn gave one of the most brilliant speeches I have ever heard in my life, his oratory skills were incredible. I wrote about it in one of my college essays: Hepburn, Quaver's CCO and co-creator, spoke to us. I did get the privilege to attend NAfME's All-Nationals Honor Ensembles event this past November and Mr. I happen to be a music student, senior in high school. I didn't really get too detailed, but I can if you'd like. If anyone wants to talk more PM me or comment about it. It's not the best, but its pretty decent. Considering the high amount of both korean and japanese students I have, it made me uncomfortable. One particular video, a woman is speaking korean and he calls her japanese. It's silly, but kind of rubs me the wrong way. Italian guy talking about spaghetti and the like. If you care about this sort of thing, they really sort of lean into stereotypes in some of the videos, too. That's because they go kind of wacky with the settings and stuff. They speak incredibly fast, and I've seen a lot of my low level english speakers really struggling to find out whats going on. I think when producing the videos they sort of left my kids out in the dark. My class is 99% english language learners. They're quirky and they make my kids laugh, but the real value in quaver, I find, is the lessons themselves. The quaver videos themselves aren't the best. Sure, it's great to call on prior knowledge, but I can see students lose interest when it's a song they've done before. My biggest gripe with the songs is that they re-use a lot of them for different topics and different grade levels. Some are just sort of.there, and I found myself looking for the connections to the lesson from time to time. Some are really well thought out, catchy, and really drive the idea home. These songs are sometimes hit or miss, too. It's sort of frustrating to teach a full song sometimes because they don't do a great job breaking up parts. Like, the songs are just sort of put on screen with the words sing-a-long style. While there are a lot of songs that the company has made, they don't really support audiation. Theres a pretty solid recorder section and even a beginner ukulele section for 5th grade. That being said, it was a great resource to cover things that I wasn't sure how to teach, or at least gave me some good ideas for how to create my own lessons which is really great for first year teachers. It's marketed as a curriculum in a box, and I agree a lot with what /u/Idahogirl556 said about my degree being worth more than pushing a button. There are some actually well done lessons. I'll talk more about this stuff in the cons section, too. The kids are engaged when we use it, so I guess I'm using technology in my classroom "more" than I normally would. Sure, I could make many of the games and stuff with the regular SMARTBOARD tech, but this stuff is pretty polished for what it is. Here's my mini review.Īs you would imagine, it's great for technology. My school purchased quaver before I started there and it was expected of me to use it once I started there.
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