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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