Author: cfmclean

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Garageband is Great

Subject: Design and Technologies

Year Level: 6-7

Strand: Design and Technologies processes and production skills

Sub-Strand: Planning, producing and evaluating design solutions

6.7 Generate, develop, evaluate, communicate and document design ideas and processes for a range of audiences, using some relevant technical terminology.

Link to the resource: http://www.apple.com/au/mac/garageband

Cross-curriculum Priorities and General Capabilities:

  • Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT)
  • Personal and Social Capability (PSC)
  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
  • Literacy (LIT)

Links to other Learning Areas:

  • English
  • Music

Classroom Activities:

Garage band gives users a range of opportunities to make recordings, create music, edit audio, add loops and mix a project, which can then be turned into a podcast! Effectively an entire music studio is available to those with Apple computers/tablets/phones to record sounds from live events or from musical instruments, or even learn how to play the instruments via online lessons. Recordings can be arranged, trimmed and manipulated to attain desired effects and there is also an option to synchronize video frames with the audio project.

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Mindmap: Creating a presentation

Here is my link for task 3:

http://www.mindmeister.com/450865868/creating-a-presentation-using-digital-technologies-that-conveys-a-message-from-fifty-ways-to-change-the-worldchange the worldshopping bagsWe are what we do

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Giving a Voice with Voki

Subject: Digital Technologies

Year Level: F-2

Strand: Digital Technologies processes and production skills

Sub Strand: Using digital systems and creating and interacting online

2.4 Identify, explore and use digital systems ( hardware and software components) for personal and classroom needs.

2.6 Work with others to organise and create ideas and information in the form of text, images and audio using information systems.

Link to the resource: http://www.voki.com/learn.php

Cross Curriculum priorities and General Capabilities:
Critical and creative thinking (CCT); Personal and social capability (PSC); Information and communication technology (ICT) capability; Literacy (LIT)

Links to other learning areas:
English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, The Arts

Classroom Activities:
This engaging and interactive software can be used as a great tool for classrooms. Students and teachers can create their own avatars that can speak through the user’s voice or through typed text. It encourages participation from less confident children and makes the learning more fun and interesting.

Avatars can be incorporated into presentations, lessons, online discussions/blogs, virtual interactive classrooms for collaborative learning opportunities and can even be embedded into blogs and websites. Teachers and student can also creatively design avatars for iconic literary figures and record the dialogue for these characters.