Good experiences on cooperation

Vi r Muscic project started 1st of February 2009. Within nine months we have had several good experiences on common virtual experiments both in teacher education and in virtual music classes. In general, Virtual meeting experiences have been positive and expected sustainable impact is seen valuable due travelling between three participating countries and five organisations was reduced dramatically compared to traditional meeting and education arrangements. It's time to present what we have achieved until now.

As the project is divided into four work packages, the first report was also structured according to them. Shortly, following results have been achieved in different WP's:

WP0, Management (Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences)
- Common meetings have been organised both virtually and face-to-face. In addition, information and publicity activities and project bureaucracy are taken care within this WP.

WP1, Methods and Practices (Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Musikhögskolan i Piteå)
- Research papers on "Music Education over Distance" and "ICT as an expansion of the music teacher profession".

WP2, Teacher training (Oulun seudun ammattikorkeakoulu)
- Technical definitions on suitable equipment
- Establishing further cooperation between different music education schools
- Virtual music education pedagogy training "Basic Course of Educational Technology"
- First common international workshop 11.-12.9.2009

WP3, Virtual Classes (Särestön kamarikonsertit ry)
- "Levi Master Classes" 22.-27. June 2009, including also section when distance teaching from Finland to Japan was tested for the first time with small children playing violin.
- "Olos Virtual Classes" in autumn 2009.
- Different virtual testings have been run in addition to other virtual classes which have been orgnanised.

Samples from classes will be linked to these pages later.

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