Music and Drama – online and together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Music and Drama – online and together

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Musiandra – Music and Drama online and together

Context/background of project

Music and drama live on the interaction of those who are on stage and the audience. The teaching of drama and music suffered to a great extend during the times of COVID-19, especially when there were lockdowns. The teachers and the learners had to find media and online solutions in order to keep up the training and the creative situations. Unfortunately, we then realized our limits and the barriers which new methodological and IT tools meant to both teachers and learners. This is why we want to address especially the creative sector since online teaching can mean a totally new and enriching field of creativity. But instead of providing virtual games, the interaction of energetic individuals is in the focus of the Musiandra project.

Often the age group also has a big impact on those who use the new media. In our project Musiandra, the teachers will be of different ages and also the learners will be of different age groups. That way the affinity to the use of new media will support the willingness to learn from experts in one field who may be totally ignorant in another field of studies. Most important of all is to make the learning situation fun and something to look forward to. So far, many colleagues have been frustrated and disillusioned. Musiandra wants to show that online teaching can be successful and that it will have a special meaning when there is transnational cooperation at the same time.

Objectives of your project

There are three objectives that we pursue mainly:
1 – Create a compendium for teachers of music, drama and foreign languages in which we collect advice for online teaching
– in real time cooperation
– using hard- and software which is easy to handle
– with hints as to latency qualities
– with methodological teaching recipes
– giving examples of our project activities with the implementation by using videos of the project activities/classes
– making sure that all copyrights and data protection laws are compolied with
(This compendium will be available online. There will be options in order to innovate, update, add contents and evaluate the contents. In addition there will be blogs, podcasts, perhaps padlets, apps and other formats which could help making the project and its outcomes more attractive.)

2 – Create a movie (screenplay, storyboards, music, setting, directing, acting, filming, cutting) with adolescent students

3 – Create a “making.of movie” which documents the processes of transnational cooperation in the music classes and the film development. The individually filmed music classes can also be used as a “stand alone” class.

4 – Disseminate the project outcomes to a greater public

Number and profile of participants

There will be two partners from Berlin, Germany, and one each from Isafjördur, Iceland, Charenton, France, Bodö, Norway, Barcelona, Spain, and Izmir, Turkey.

Description of activities

a – First there will be a survey on the experiences that all teachers and learners at our institutions have made with online teaching situations. There will be questionnaires.
b – The teachers of band classes and of individual classes will get together and will make detailed teaching plans for the project period.
c – If COVID-19 allows it, there will be meetings: teachers, learners, general public (in project meetings and in concedrts). In case the real meetings are impossible, there will be virtual meetings and concerts with (partly) streamed performers and/or perhaps video conference concerts.
d – HIgh school students will be creative in the field of drama and invent a play which will be the core of the Musiandra film. They will also film it and present it to the general public. This activity demands workshops in creative writing, filming, cutting and dissemination. One element should also bepicking or composing the suitable film music. They will be supported by the theatre Volksbühne Berlin.
e – All learners and teachers who actively participate in the Musiandra project will document the online learning activities in videos. (Of course copyright laws and the personal rights will be attained!)

Methodology to be used in carrying out the project:

Trustful cooperation

A short description of the results and impact envisaged

– The compendium, the film and the concerts will provide evidence that online teaching can be very dreative and that it will lead to excellent outcomes.
– As a consequence, teachers and learners will overcome their barriers as to accept online classes in the field of music, drama and creativity.

Finally the potential longer term benefits
– Musiandra will be a successful embassador for online teaching in creative subjects, especially in the vulnerable fields of audios and coordinated movements. The compendium will survive the project and will be improved and extended also after the project.

And most of all, we will learn from each other and with each other

Project Website

http://www.musiandra.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191620 Eur

Project Coordinator

OSZ TIEM & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Conservatoire de Musique André Navarra
• UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
• Listaskoli Rognvaldar Olafssonar
• Karabağlar Atatürk Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Leo Kestenberg Musikschule
• Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz