Following the upcoming Version 2.0 iteration with MuEd 105 students this year (AY 2023-2024), it is proposed that this vocal jazz workshop be transformed into an Open Educational Resource (OER) applicable to vocal jazz learners outside the U.P. College of Music. Version 2.0 iteration evaluation (Kirkpatrick model-based) must inform the creation of a subsequent OER Version 3.0
Transforming the 3-day vocal jazz workshop into an Open Educational Resource (OER)
The entire e-portfolio, including the learner manuals and teacher manuals alongside relevant instructional and assessment materials, will be potentially made into an OER. Following the definition of OER as “Open educational resources cover[ing] a wide range of online formats, including online textbooks, video recorded lectures, YouTube clips, web-based textual materials designed for independent study, animations and simulations, digital diagrams and graphics, some MOOCs, or even assessment materials such as tests with automated answers” (Bates, 2015), the whole project can be shared with the Creative Commons organization. I will seek to have the following license:
“CC BY-NC-ND: the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially” (Bates, 2015).
I have to choose the most restrictive license primarily because this workshop is designed mainly for singers who have training in Bel Canto, Opera, or Classical singing methods and techniques. The instructional design in the workshop is carefully patterned after the instructional designer’s immersion in Music Education 105 (Voice Pedagogy). The instructional strategies also transition from didactic to experiential learning approaches, capping the workshop with a masterclass at the end. Users of the OER should then stick with the flow of the instructional design from start to finish and must not just use a portion of the workshop, in order to ensure a holistic learning and user experience. Users of the OER have to appreciate the bridge connecting a Classically informed Day 1 followed by a more jazz-oriented Day2, all the way through to an actual jazz masterclass on Day 3, and eventually a televised performance by the student/s, enabling technology to redefine a learning experience.
Nevertheless, pedagogical/instructional adjustments may be made to the curriculum of this workshop pertinent to the target learners. Prior to any such instructional modifications to the workshop's curriculum, the instructional designer must first be consulted.
I emphasize that this workshop has been designed and developed in reference to a formal typology of learning in which student performance is formally facilitated by a teacher, albeit following social-constructivist learning theories.
Important Modifications Depending on Target Learners:
Day 1-3 target audience can be
senior high school students (preferably 10th graders)
and/or vocal music/voice pedagogy majors/students in music schools/conservatories/colleges
Day 1 Professor/Instructor Qualifications- must be familiar with or an expert of Classical/bel canto singing
Day 2 Mechanics- how to organize the online community; where to conduct research if not at the UP College of Music
Day 3 Masterclass- can employ not only Lorna Cifra but any other qualified vocal music professor or jazz practitioner/pedagogue
Important Points for Modifications in Detail
Day 1 Student Requirements
Vocal Performance Majors who are taking a voice pedagogy course in tertiary institutions, as well as music education in senior high schools
Grade 10 students taking a music class in Second Quarter (Course Code: MU10AP-IIa-h5: Jazz a. Instrumental forms: ragtime, big band, bebop, jazz rock). It is essential to note that in the Senior High School music curriculum, only instrumental jazz is introduced. Hence, the necessity of providing vocal jazz content to broaden the syllabus. (SHS music curriculum available at https://www.academia.edu/38078710/K_to_12_Curriculum_Guide_MUSIC_Grade_1_to_Grade_10 )
Basic requirements
Academic:
For tertiary students: must be currently taking or have taken Voice Pedagogy or any equivalent course.
For senior high school students: must be in tenth grade and have already taken lessons in instrumental jazz following the DepEd curriculum
Must be familiar with basic Classical vocal dynamics (phonation, resonation etc.)
Must be interested in multiculturalism especially in music and the arts
Technological:
Zoom usage
Vocaroo.com usage
Basic internet navigation skills
Day 1 Teacher Requirements
Must have a background in voice pedagogy- singing mechanism (bel canto, Classical)
Background in vocal jazz is desired but not required
Day 2 Requirements (mainly for students)
Facebook navigation, Facebook account
Must join Vocal Jazz Educators Facebook page or any online Facebook page created by instructional designer
Self-paced independent study, research-based work--- students can go to the UP library if needed
May contact instructional designer for a link to helpful OER resources on vocal jazz
May contact instructional designer for the creation of an interactive online learning community of jazz educators, practitioners and students
Day 3 Requirements
Masterclass Teacher:
Must be a practitioner of vocal jazz
A degree in jazz vocals or equivalent vocal jazz performance experience
Must have a background in Classical music
Must have conducted vocal jazz workshop or taught vocal jazz students
Masterclass teacher must perform the masterclass as patterned after the Lorna Cifra masterclass during V 2.0 iteration
Must have an experiential, constructivist way of teaching
Televised student performance following Day 3 may be organized in a non-televised manner outside the classroom (depending on available resources)
Note: As an OER, Version 3.0 may be equipped with the same curricular content, objectives, instructional materials/resources, activities, and learner and teacher manuals as available to Version 2.0 in this e-portfolio, with the caveat that the above-mentioned important points for modification are carefully accounted for.
Instructional Designer's Contact Information:
Pharaway “JazzyPhar” Lacdao
Email: pslacdao@up.edu.ph
Mobile #/ Viber: 0977 600 1817
FB Messenger: JazzyPhar Lacdao