I just saw that my last post was on November 12. I feel ashamed, and apologize to all my followers: I am sorry, but have been extremely busy with school etc. Today and mostly tomorrow I will try to get you updated on all the things I did in the last few months, and boy, that were a lot of things.
First of all I will get started with telling you about the playing tests we had. In groups, we had to play the song Funky Town, by Lipps Inc. Now you're probably wondering what is so special about this. Well, the special part was that we got to grade our classmates. For my group I did the vocals, whilst other people played a drum, did percussion, and several others played the keyboards. Our performance went quite well. We had three shots at it, and I feel that the second one was the best.
After doing our own test, we looked at the others. It felt somewhat strange, judging upon your fellow classmates and friends. It made it somewhat hard to stay objective, but I believe that in the end I was. Most people listened more closely to the music probably, paying attention to right notes and grooves etc. I have to say that I did not listen more closely, because I always listen very closely already. This is a hard thing to explain, but to say it very bold, I listen to songs in a much more technical way. This method of listening is exactly what you need when grading.
Having the power in the classroom sounds very nice. It was somewhat odd though. In a way, I felt that I was in the wrong place, even though I had already graded other people before. It did feel good though. I thought that the way of grading was fair, because we grade people of which we know how hard they are trying: we have done the same thing. I do feel that I was fair in grading others, because I did look at it quite critically, and in the end my grades also corresponded with the grades of Mr. Weisser. I also must say that I feel that my classmates graded me fair too.
The rubric that we used for grading was created by people from our class, as they got the most grades. I did not really like it though, even though my own grade might have been lower when using the rubric I created. The one we used focussed a lot more on effort than on quality, and I feel that this does not make sense. Our rubric on the other hand did focus on the quality of the piece, and I therefore feel that it was better.
More posting soon to come, so keep your eyes open.
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