This is my first ever blog, so I want to experiment to find out what I do. This has been created as I am following the MOOC from The University of Sydney on ‘The Place of Music in 21st Century Education’.

Technology is ever apparent in my daily life and I have seen just how quickly it evolves. From remembering taping my walkman to my bike for my rides home from school, to buying my first CD player when I left home for college. I had catalogued all my CD’s on an excel spreadsheet, filtering according to instrument, composer and era etc.  After that it was the gift of my ipod classic, which saved me hauling my CD’s around the world, and the creation of playlists according to album and then to the discovery of Spotify and Apple Music that gives me access to so much music and the ability to create playlists for every possible reason and the chance to discover new music unlike ever before.

When I think how my own classroom has changed too, its mostly because of technology advances and I feel that I need to get more out of what is already happening around me and just by doing a course such as this online, is all part of that process. Hopefully this blog will teach me a thing or two and hopefully I also have something worth sharing with others.