Music, Creativity and Technology: An Example from Actual Practice

Step 1: Find music notation scribbled on a bathroom wall.

Step 2: Take a picture of it with your cell phone camera and post it online to ImageShack:

http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ix9.jpg

Step 3: Post a link to that photo on Reddit for others to see and discuss:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7bqjc/music_found_in_the_toilet/

Step 4: Transcribe melody into Noteflight and create a custom arrangement of "Toilet Melody":



click on Noteflight logo to launch score at Noteflight.com

Step 5: Repost Noteflight arrangement back on Reddit for others to discuss:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7bqjc/music_found_in_the_toilet/

Credits:
Photo = TrippingChilly
Music Arrangement = Skynare

If this is how young people are using technology in their lives, how can we draw on this in the classes we teach?

-Alex Ruthmann