In this recipe, we are going to work on the theory of bilateral thinking, that is to say that both hemispheres of the brain work together. The right side of the brain will put bits of information together to make an entire picture of the piece of music that they are listening to; while the left side of the brain will understand the language (writing).
In order to illustrate this theory, we are going to work with a diagram clock using music. Out of a piece of music, students are going to think of twelve aspects to explore and they are going to carry out a writing activity afterwards.
We are going to enter the following website: http://www.archive.org and we are going to choose a piece of music. In this recipe I have chosen to work with classical music concerning Christmas. You may chose any other type of music you like, because students may find it easier to connect the piece of music to different aspects concerning a well known holiday.
Enter the previously mentioned website and choose a piece of music to embed in our Moodle course. The chosen piece of music for this activity is 'Ding Dong Merrily on High'.
After choosing the piece of music, we are going to embed said piece of music in a Forum or you may also choose a chat activity. Through this interaction among themselves they are going to establish which twelve aspects they have to consider in order to write an article based on the said piece of music. In this case, we are going to design the activity through a Forum, so these are the steps that you are going to follow:
- Click on Add an activity, and select Forum.
- Complete both the Forum name and the Forum introduction block.
- Return to the website, http://www.archive.org/details/DingDongMerrilyOnHigh, and click on embed this, as shown in the next screenshot:
- Click on play, as indicated in the following pop out window, as shown in the next screenshot:
- Click on embed this and copy the embedding code.
- Go back to the Moodle course. Click on the Toggle HTML Source icon and paste the embedding code.
- Click on the Toggle HTML Source icon again, the following will appear, as shown in the next screenshot:
- Click on Save and return to course.