Name: The Record Company Game: Gamification of Project-Based Learning
Start: 2025-06-06T10:45:00-0500
End: 2025-06-06T11:15:00-0500

Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.

Friday June 6, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am CDT

Classroom 101 - Legacy Building

This session will explain and discuss the results from the first year of implementing The Record Company Game. Session participants will understand The Game Rules, The Rate Sheet, Timeline, Services Rendered Form, The Bank spreadsheet, and see student produced deliverables so they can implement The Game in their classrooms. Created by Barbara Freedman, the game is being played by students in the Greenwich High School Honors Electronic Music Composition & Studio Production classes. The purpose of the game is to give students real life experiences of what it is like to be an artist signed to a record company. Students play the role of the “artist” and be “hired” by the school Record Company for which they will receive a “Signing Bonus”. Students will produce professional level digital deliverables associated with the release of one musical recording (a “single”). Deliverables include the recording, social media posts, press releases, and other marketing tools. Students can earn “money” by doing work for other students the Record Company (Services Rendered). Bonuses and Late Fees may apply and are preset before the game begins according to the Rate Sheet. Prizes will be awarded for the student who engages the most number of students to work for them on their piece, the student who works for the most number of other students on their music, the composition itself, and other prizes that may be determined by the teachers along the course of the game.

Speakers

Barbara Freedman

Teacher/Adjunct, Greenwich High School/Montclair State U

Named the 2012 TI:ME Music Technology Teacher of the Year, Barbara Freedman has been teaching Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School in Connecticut since 2001. She is the author of the book “Teaching Music Through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology... Read More →

Friday June 6, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am CDT
Classroom 101 - Legacy Building 3775 Central Avenue 129 Music Building Memphis, TN, 38111

K-12 Education, Demonstration

APME Memphis 2025

Barbara Freedman

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