Soul goddess Nina Simone may have sung about the 22nd Century, but we’re still in the 21st century. And school rewards systems should involve more than stickers and badges, right? It may not be obvious at first glance, but rewarding students for their music reviews is one of the central features behind the Rockhaq school music journalism community.
Team Rockhaq are pleased to say that Rockhaq founder Michelle Dhillon has been invited to make two appearances on SNC Radio as part of South Nottingham College’s Student Radio week. The first interview will take place on Mike Mayor’s Rock Show at 11am on Wednesday 25th April 2012, where Michelle will talk to Mike about …
We’re super pleased to say that Rockhaq music review blogs have just been embedded into more Music teaching units, this time for Level 3 BTEC Music Technology students, at South Nottingham College.
Almost like when Bob Dylan went electric in 1965, we’ve been threatening to go responsive for a while now, and we’re pleased to say we’ve finally done it! Ok, maybe it’s not quite as epic as Dylan’s transformation, but it kinda is for us.
Rockhaq is a Music Journalism community – so we think it’s time we emphasised the ‘journalism’ part! We didn’t plan on launching this for our Rockhaq students yet because we are just piloting our music reviews blog with a few schools right now. But we’ve decided to have some fun!
What are the Creative Media students at South Nottingham College gaining from using Rockhaq blogs inside and outside of lessons? Find out and see how it has been embedded into Edexcel’s BTEC in Creative Media Production.
We’re piloting the Rockhaq school music reviews blog with colleges in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Here’s how it’s been embedded into the Media curriculum for Sports Journalism students at South Nottingham College.
We’ve had some amazing comments and feedback from college students and teachers about the Rockhaq school music journalism community – and we decided to share some of the feedback here with you now.
Boom! Did you know that 50% of our pilot students are using Rockhaq in their spare time, outside of lessons and some are even writing music reviews on Friday nights and at the weekend?!
Another stop-press announcement to say that Team Rockhaq are very pleased to confirm details of our second Rockhaq pilot college for students to write music reviews on our Rockhaq blog this year.
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