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Become your own Virtual DJ

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Subject: Digital Technology

Year level: 5/6

Strand: Knowledge & Understanding and Processes & Production Skills

Sub-strand: Collecting, Managing & Analysing Data and Digital Systems

Possible Curriculum Links:

Collect, sort, interpret and visually present different types of data using software to manipulate data for a range of purposes (ACTDIP016)

Collect, store and present different types of data for a specific purpose using software (ACTDIP016)

Link to the Resource:

http://www.virtualdj.com

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities:

Critical and creative thinking

Personal and social capability

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Cross-curriculum links:

The Arts: Music

 

What is it:

Virtual DJ is a computer program that allows students to create their own music mixes or mix together already existing songs to create a new track. It allows students to experiment with speed, tempo, loops and crossfading. This program also enables the students to mix videos to go in addition with their music track including fading and transitions.

How to use it in the Classroom:

One example of how this program can be used in the classroom is to teach students about different way to represent data through sound. students would use the program to create an end product by mixing together existing sounds. this teaches students that sound is a type of data and that they are able to manipulate it. This shows their understanding that sound is made up of data.

 

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Music as an option – GarageBand

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/garageband

 

 

Garage Band is an app that is primarily through Apple apps. There is the ability to download on PC’s but may take downloading other apps.

 

This site is amazing in letting students from the age of 8 onwards to compose their own music using digital technologies.

 

Digital technologies and music can be linked to literacy and maths. Maths can be aligned with music in numerous ways. Structure, patterns etc.

 

For example:

Learning notation in music reading is understanding fractions. The whole note is the whole, half is the half, a quarter is a quarter and on and on.  I have used this diagram below as well as a simple pie cut into pieces. Kids get it. If you put the pieces on the floor and let them manipulate them in real life, the idea of fractions becomes real. They understand the space and proportion.

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Isle of Tune

Subject: Digital Technologies

Year Level: 5

Strand: Digital implementation

Sub strand: Implement and use simple programming environments that include branching (decisions) and iteration (repetition) (ACTDIP020).

Link to the resource:

http://isleoftune.com

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities:

Literacy
Numeracy
Information and Communication Technology Capability
Critical and Creative Thinking.

Links to other learning areas:

The Arts (Music)

A classroom activity using this resource:

This is a fun way for students to practice programming that includes repetitions.
This activity can be used to promote creative thinking, literacy and numeracy.
Isle of Tune is available as a web based tool or an app for mobile technology. It allows pupils to compose or recreate well know tunes in a fun way.

 

How to use Isle of Tunes:

Briefly…

Laying road

1. Lay down some road

Trees lamps

2. Add houses, plants or lamp posts along the road (or a combination)

3. Place a car on the road

Drum pattern

4. Press Go.  As the car drives past each element on the road it will make a rhythmic or melodic sound. At the end of the road, it turns around and plays your creation in retrograde 🙂

 

 

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iMovie

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iMovie is a video editing software application created by Apple and comes pre-installed on Mac computers and iOS devices.

It is an incredible application, which provides basic, ‘no-frills’ editing tools to put together a movie from a set of video clips. You are able to import video footage using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras or the computers USB port. iMovie can also import video and photo files from a hard drive. You are able to edit the photos and video clips and add titles, themes, music and effects, including basic colour correction and video enhancement tools and transitions such as fades and slides.

Students can share and publish finished iMovie projects as movies to any number of social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, or through iTunes.

Subject: Technologies

Strand: Digital Technologies – Processes and Production Skills

Sub-Strand:

  • Collecting, managing and analysing data
  • Digital implementation
  • Designing
  • Producing and implementing
  • Collaborating and managing

Year level: Year one to Year six

Cross-curriculum priorities and General Capabilities:

  • Literacy;
  • Information and Communication Technology;
  • Critical and Creative Thinking;
  • Personal and Social Capability;
  • Ethical understanding; and
  • Intercultural understanding.

Links to other learning areas:

  • English;
  • Science;
  • The Arts;
  • Humanities and Social Sciences;
  • Health and Physical Education; and
  • Mathematics. 

How to use this resource:

For a great iMovie tutorial, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbzDXk4vKk

Another fantastic way to use iMovie, is to record yourself reading a text and then insert your recording into iMovie. If you have students with hearing difficulties, you can import a video of yourself (or someone else) signing! A great YouTube demonstration on how to do this can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60RqTYp4xhQ&feature=youtu.be

 

References:

ACARA. (2015). Australian Curriculum. Retrieved from http://v7-5.australiancurriculum.edu.au

Apple Inc. (2015). iMovie for iOS – Apple (AU). Retrieved from http://www.apple.com/au/ios/imovie/

Bove, T., & Rhodes, C. (n.d.). Knowing What You Can Do with iMovie – For Dummies. Retrieved from http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/knowing-what-you-can-do-with-imovie.html

IPad Teachers. (2015). Add Sign Language Videos using iMovie on iPad. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60RqTYp4xhQ&feature=youtu.be

SCSA. (2014). Digital Technologies. Retrieved from http://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/p-10-curriculum/curriculum-     browser/technologies/digital-technologies2

Ultimate YouTube Resource. (2013). iMovie: Tutorial For Beginners. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbzDXk4vKk

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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.

Download Garage band for Mac

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Designing a musical instrument

Theme: Rainforests

Overall task: Students create a rainforest soundscape as a group. Students must include their handmade instruments in their soundscape.

This is the design stage of the program. Students design an instrument and sketch their instrument with a step by step method of the creation process.

Year: 4

Learning area:  Design and Technologies processes and production skills

Focus: Generating, developing and evaluating ideas

Content Descriptor: 4.6 Generate, develop, evaluate, communicate and document design ideas and design decisions using both manual and digital technologies

Materials needed: Materials depend on the instrument of each student.

Focus questions: What sounds are heard in a rainforest? What instruments can make these sounds

LESSON SEQUENCE

ACTIVITY ONE

Students work in groups to collaborate an idea for their rainforest soundscape. They brainstorm their ideas on a share piece of paper. As a group students decide which instruments they will need in order to create the sounds need for their soundscape.

Group Brainstorm

ACTIVITY TWO 

Students begin designing their instrument. Students look at how to structure it and what materials are needed to create their instrument.

Rainstick Design

ACTIVITY THREE

Once student have constructed their design on their instrument they need to write out a plan that describes the steps needed to create their instrument. Including the materials need.

Instructions to creating a rainstick

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iMovie Apple application

Subject: Design and Technologies

Year Level: 5-7

Strand: Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills

Sub strand: Planning, producing and evaluating designed 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

https://www.apple.com/au/mac/imovie/

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities

Literacy (LIT)

Critical and creative thinking (CCT)

Personal and social capability (PSC)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Links to other learning areas

English, Science, Society and Environment, Health, Drama, Music

A classroom activity using this resource

The Apple iMovie application allows both students and teachers to create there own educational videos. I have seen this app being used in the classroom by students for: presentations, timelines, performances and videos for classroom blogs.

The user is able to create their own video. This may be a video made of a collection of photographs telling a story or a recording of an event or a combination of both. Through the iMovie app the video is able to include text, voice overs, music and power-pointslide effect changes.  Students are able to express their knowledge in their own unique way and the thought of a video can be transformed into so many different ideas for a child, making it compatible for most learning areas.

How to use this resource

In order to use this application you will need an Apple product that supports iMovie eg. iPad, Mac Computer.

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Garage Band

Subject

Design and technologies

Year Level

6-7

Strand

Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills

Sub strand

Planning, producing (making) and evaluating designed 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

https://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.

A classroom activity using this resource

This would be a great resource for music teachers in allowing students to gain the confidence in being able to create music on the computer. This can be a difficult piece of technology to use however through the use of of tutorials provided by the program it becomes easy enough to use. There are multiple tools provided to help learn about putting music together, whether it be making music with instruments or making the score. Using Garage Band allows students who wouldn’t normally have access to instruments create music. Garageband allows students to bring music to life and allows the students to take ownership over their own learning and creations. The students can also record their own sounds and voices to produce presentations which can be used in other subject areas within the classroom.

How to use this resource

In order to use this application you will need an Apple product that supports Garage Band, such as a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air or iMac. On most Apple devices Garage Band is already installed, so there is no need to purchase Garage Band, only set it up and begin use. There are tutorials on Garage Band that will help create your new piece of audio or written music, which also includes 40 different genre-based lessons.