Prezis

The game I made a Prezis presentation about is called Doremi, which is an ear training game. It is aimed at students ranging from 3rd to 5th grade. Doremi is a very good game for teaching students notes, intervals, key signatures, scales, and reading music. Prezis is a wonderful online alternative to Powerpoint, and even adds some additional dimensions that make it more interesting to go through. These two programs combined can make a fantastic education tool for both teachers and students.
Doremi demonstrates ISTE Standard 2a: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. Doremi is designed as a pitch instructional tool, primarily helping with ear training exercises. In order to train your ear, you must practice by listening to and identifying different intervals. Doremi excels at this learning task by forcing the students to interact with the game. It does this by using computer technology to play and teach notes. After hearing the notes, the student must then identify the interval that was played. This program also excels at teaching the student different scales and key signatures, but that is more of an additional teaching tool and is not what the program was created primarily to do. The students can then apply what they have learned to other music skills, such as singing, playing an instrument, and composing. Especially with singing, students need to be able to hear intervals well, and this program helps them improve on this skill. Non-singers must be able to hear pitches too to make sure they are tuning well with the other instruments. Ear training is never a mastered skill, but one that requires constant time and practice. Doremi uses digital technology to make a game that is not only educational and helpful in ear training practice, but also fun at the same time.