Technology and Multiple Intelligences - Musical/Rhythmic

artwork These "music smart" people learn best through sounds including listening and making sounds such as songs, rhythms, patterns, and other types of auditory expression. They are able to use inductive and deductive reasoning and identify relationships in data. Provide students with audio and video recorders to capture their musical expressions. Ask them to choose appropriate music to go with a slide show, artwork, or poem. Create and record hand-made instruments. Add other intelligences such as drawing patterns of music or writing about music and sounds.

Roles: They like to choose and compose music for multimedia presentations. They like to see and hear patterns, so they may be good at sequencing a presentation. They are good listeners, so ask them to look for things that might be missing after watching a videotape.

Technology Tools

Video and audio recorders - digitize singing, musical instruments
Sound and music files
Music clips
Music generation software
Animation - Macromedia Flash
Music composition software
DVDs and CD-audios
Interactive books with audio elements
Audio notation in word processors
Music sharing sites