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~ A web based tool I might use while teaching is the music-creating program Finale. It allows you to write music and play it back so that you can hear the rythms and chords you ahve created. It is most helpful when writing percussion scores because drums and percussion instrumets do not rely on pitch (minus the keyboard-type instrumnets) and you can still hear your musical ideas with the computer genreated sounds, (the computer sounds are similar to those on an electric keyboard when you change from the piano sound to a different one)
Finale is aprogram that must be purchased, but here is the website if you want to read about it and it's different features. http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx
~I would most like to learn to use a grading program because all teachers need to use them and be familliar with them. They are extremely helpful to teachers and allow them to enter and calculate grades much faster than by hand in an ordinary grade book.
~I am sure that I will learn to use a grading program either in a class later on as I move toward my major, or when I get my first teaching job and its forced apon me to learn it. Thjere might also bea teahcing seminars that help new teachers get accustomed to these programs.