Task #9 – Network Assignment for Golden Record

I was part of Group 2 in the data set, consisting of myself, Shawn Lau, Melody Martin and  Sarka Kubelikova. Here is a screenshot of our connected network:   The next image shows the 5 songs that all members of my group shared. List: Johnny B. Goode Morning Star/Devil Bird Wedding Song Jaat Kahan Ho …

Task #8 – Golden Record Curation

I approached this task with the mindset that the included works should show as much diversity as possible, not just in the cultural origin of the music but in the sound and/or instrumentation. As a music teacher, I tried to think about the instrumentation and musical construction of the pieces to arrive at the final …

Task #7 – Mode Bending

The task for this week was to engage in mode bending by redesigning the task  from Week 1 titled“What’s In My Bag” using the principles of the New London Group (1996). My original assignment was linguistic design and is now being shifted towards an audio design. I wanted to transform the context of my original …

Task #6 – An Emoji Story

Please click here first to read my emoji story! This process was much more challenging that I had originally envisioned. Upon first glance, the assignment seemed fairly easy, for it seemed that my only task was to  insert some emoticons on a page to tell a story. However, once I began the process, I found …

Task 4 – Manual Scripts (Option #1)

I normally type everything out instead of writing by hand. I found this task very difficult, because I rarely do it and find the process overall to be slow, laborious and inefficient. In terms of mistakes, you can clearly see the places where I just crossed words out that I didn’t want to use, instead …

Task 1 – What’s in your bag?

My name is Brian Ham, and I teach Elementary Music and Middle School Technology Elective at a K-12 school in Saudi Arabia. For this task, I decided to use my school bag, which I would normally carry everyday that I go into work. Of course, with the onset of COVID-19, I have been working everyday …