I would link my H5P video here, but it does not seem to want to work! Regardless, I spend around 20 minutes or so adding elements to my screencastify video, as well as exploring around the site quite a bit to see what options were available, and I now feel like I have a grasp of the basic concept of H5P interactive elements. It took me quite a while to figure out this resource, but it seems to be very powerful and can have a lot of possible uses. I am interested to find new ways to utilize this in the future, especially in a music context. There is an endless amount of high-quality music education content on the internet, but often it is focused on concepts that may not be perfectly applicable to a music classroom. With editing tools and H5P, as well as screencastify, it can be easier for me as an educator to better curate and tailor this content to the needs of my students and to the content outcomes of the course I am teaching.

In our last class, we also discussed the idea of a flipped classroom, where students are expected to learn or interact with the material before class, allowing the class time to be used for higher order thinking (as per Bloom’s Taxonomy). This is in contrast to a more standard model where direct instruction can take up a majority of the class time, and students often need to do additional work outside of class on their own in order to practice or demonstrate the concepts covered in class. As a music teacher, a flipped classroom is both perfectly in line with the standard way an ensemble is run as well as being opposite of what is needed, depending on the situation and content. Being a performance-based course generally, there is an expectation that each player/student should be practicing their own parts at home and within the band class the teacher/conductor facilitates putting those parts together. However, at the same time, it can be very difficult to find ways for students to learn some of the higher order concepts and ensemble skills in their at-home practice and thus requires in-class direct discussion. So, the nature of music classes in some ways encourages both flipped and non flipped classroom models at the same time, though it is good to be aware of the distinction.