Indigenous Genres on Digital Keyboards: Vitalizing Choral Worship in the Methodist Church Ghana

This research examines digital keyboard workstations for choral accompaniment in the Methodist Church Ghana from an Ethnodoxological perspective. The Methodist Church Ghana has a strong choral tradition and is known for using indigenous African musical genres to inspire congregational singing and liturgical music. Digital keyboards are adaptable and versatile, making them ideal for Christian worship and inspiring the Methodist Church Ghana composers to write and arrange music rooted in traditional African genres. Choral keyboardists often accompany choral ministrations using rhythmic patterns programmed and played on digital keyboard workstations. However, little academic research has been conducted on the spiritual implications of using digital keyboard workstations in Ghanaian Christian choral music. This qualitative research utilizes an Ethnodoxological framework to investigate the cross-cultural dynamics of digital keyboards in choral worship within the Methodist Church Ghana services. The study employs a combination of literature review, surveys, observations, and analysis to accomplish this objective. The study aims to contribute to the growth of African Christian choral music and worldwide worship by providing resources for choirs of all Christian denominations that use digital music keyboard workstations to integrate traditional music genres with choral music into their worship

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1994.

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1994

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1994.

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1994

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1994.

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1994

Using Information Communications Technologies to Implement Universal Design for Learning

The purpose of this paper is to assist Ministries of Education, their donors and partners, Disabled Persons Organizations (DPOs), and the practitioner community funded by and working with USAID to select, pilot, and (as appropriate) scale up ICT4E solutions to facilitate the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), with a particular emphasis on supporting students with disabilities to acquire literacy and numeracy skills. The paper focuses primarily on how technology can support foundational skills acquisition for students with disabilities, while also explaining when, why, and how technologies that assist students with disabilities can, in some applications, have positive impacts on all students’ basic skills development. In 2018, USAID released the Toolkit for Universal Design for Learning to Help All Children Read, section 3.1 of which provides basic information on the role of technologies to support UDL principles and classroom learning. This paper expands upon that work and offers more extensive advice on using ICT4E1 to advance equitable access to high quality learning. Like the UDL toolkit, the audience for this guide is mainly Ministries of Education and development agencies working in the area of education, but this resource can also be helpful for DPOs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) wishing to pilot or spearhead ICT initiatives. Content for this paper was informed by expert interviews and reviews of field reports during 2018. These included programs associated with United Nations, Zero Project, World Innovation Summit, UNESCO Mobile Learning Awards, and USAID’s All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development. Relevant case studies of select education programs integrating technology to improve learning outcomes for students with disabilities were summarized for this document

Accessing information by voice

Getting up to date agricultural information to rural farmers has always been a challange, especially in areas with low literacy rates. A system to read out text, available via mobile phone, could help reach many more communitie

Localizing languages

A partnership to provide technology in African languages is helping to make content and software more accessible to people across the continen