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Stetson School of Music Marching to a Different Drummer
9/12/2006
According to Bobby Adams, professor of music education at Stetson, as well as director of the university symphonic band and coordinator of instrumental activities, the ceiling-mounted document camera is especially useful for presenting large drill charts to students. “Each student in a marching band has an assignment that involves specific and often complicated movements that are all choreographed,” Adams says. The ELMOs allow the entire class to view the charts simultaneously, so that students can see each movement as it relates to others. The camera allows Adams to display clear images of the full charts to the class on a large screen mounted on the wall, then zoom in to focus on individual assignments.
Previously, “communicating band movements to students was very difficult,” explains Adams. “The document cameras changed all that by making it easy for all of the students to clearly see the charts and for instructors to highlight individual movements so that they can be easily studied. It’s a superb teaching tool for showing different formations.”
Along with the document cameras, typical equipment in Stetson’s multimedia classrooms includes Sharp data/video projectors, Panasonic DVD players, Crown amplifiers, and JBL speakers. In addition, classrooms in the School of Music include a Mackie mixer, Apple Macintosh computer to play digital recordings, and a Sony CD unit and a turntable to play the school’s archived music collection, which includes thousands of compact discs and LP recordings.
ELMO document cameras have also been installed in multimedia classrooms at Stetson University’s College of Arts & Sciences, School of Business Administration and College of Law.
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