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Noteflight Notation Project

 



I enjoyed exploring Noteflight. It was relatively user-friendly and straightforward to learn independently. However, while using the free version, I experienced a few glitches. First, inputting lyrics and indicating how long words should be held became finicky and challenging to control. In one instance, I spent several minutes unsuccessfully trying to remove a dash from a rest. Additionally, formatting options with the free version are relatively limited, and I found the shortcuts on Musescore to be more effective for inputting note values and pitches. However, I think Noteflight can be quite effective as an educational tool. At our school, our students have one-to-one Chromebooks. Because this is a free online platform and not a program that must be downloaded, this technology is accessible to every single one of my students. With a simple five-minute tutorial, my third to sixth-grade students could easily input melodies, participate in dictation exercises, and compose their own melodic lines. With younger students, I plan to use Noteflight to demonstrate the concept of time signatures. When the selected note value was too long for the remainder of the measure I was editing, Noteflight immediately corrected the note to fit the measure length exactly. I will do several experiments with my Kindergarten to second-grade students to see if they can "catch Miss Cichocki's mistakes" using Noteflight's rhythm tools.

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