Monday, August 31, 2015

New portal to engage students in music


For the benefit of Corporation school teachers and students, an online portal which acts as a teacher’s training resource for music was launched on Friday.

Anil Srinivasan of Rhapsody Music Foundation said their Learning Management System (LMS) has about 440 lesson plans for students from classes I to class X.

“Every lesson has been crafted in such a way that teachers may be able to use it easily, whether or not they have been directly trained by us. It is a free resource to use in classrooms and for teachers to deliver lessons to students,” he said.

The portal comprises of videos which has lessons with instructions and also videos donated by various cultural missions from the Chennai Music Library.

Corporation Commissioner Vikram Kapoor said they will be rolling out equipment to launch in schools that is similar to the learning management system. “I shall discuss with the team and see how these music lessons can be integrated into the system. Like science, I think we need to take music to all classrooms,” he said.

S. Thamarai Selvi of Chennai High School, West Mambalam, said she was eager to begin lessons with this new portal. School children also gave a performance.

Source | The Hindu | 31 August 2015

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