This video will help provide a broad overview of one aspect of Irish Music and a beginning introduction to some key people, places and ideas. Students will now begin their individual cybersleuthing journeys to investigate/explore things/ideas that personally resonate after having viewed this documentary. They will compile and organize, as they proceed, a categorized list of ideas, questions, sources and links. They'll be able to cull from this list, many ideas and sources for their formative blog postings in our "Blog as Journal" project and their summative VoiceThread work.
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There's no other profession in the world where you can get to meet such amazing characters – the real people of the country that you go to. Music kind of invites you to walk into these lives. They're not great academics, or geniuses – they're just ordinary people, like you and me. That's the lovely thing about music, and it's the same with art and the same with poetry. This semester, we'll explore traditional and contemporary aspects of Irish music, share research and reflections, and provide collaborative resources for further study and discussion.
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