Middle C, Sort Of

So, I was on a gameshow last night on Iowa City cable access. Uh, if you really want, you can digg it?



I remember quite some time ago talking to another TA (I don't remember who, or even if they were a music TA) about how weird it is to write on a board--how odd spelling is, or music notation, when it's giant and right in front of your face. With that caveat, music fans may want to skip to 17:50, where I get a question I (or, you know, a third-grader) should slam out of the ballpark, but I only sort of get it right.

Which begs the question of the century in music pedagogy: do they make whiteboard rostrums? Yes, I know there are whiteboards with music staves already on them, but there's just something about the thought of seeing a teacher line up five pieces of chalk, each broken in its own weird way, that gets lost in this new age of markers.

Of course, who's ever been in a classroom that had two working dry erase markers, let alone five?

What did I learn about myself? (A bulleted list)

• I'm a big giant nerd
• I don't know anything about beer.
• I don't know anything about science.
• I'm utterly reliant on a calculator for even basic arithmetic
  
• I'm super nerdy.
• I talk with my hands.
• I make funny faces.
• I fidget.
• I talk with my hands, a whole lot.
• I make funny faces, a whole lot.
• I fidget, a whole lot.
  
• I'm nerdy.
• I need to brush up on the British new-wave.