FETC
Collaborative Composer Project
Carol Broos and Brenda Muench
Powerpoint Presentation: ComposerCollaborative_FETC10.key.pdf
Main Website: http://composerproject.wikispaces.com/
Videos: Composer Videos 2008-2009
Introduction Video
Prezi Presentation
Composer VoiceThread
Programs and websites used:
Sunset Ridge Fifth Graders
- iTunes - Hooked on Classics - List of Compositions and Composers - composers.xls
- Google Maps, Google Forms - Find a Grave (Facts about the Composer) placed in Google Maps by Mrs. Broos
- Internet - Simple Facts
- Skype - First skype call - meet and greet
- VoiceThread - Google Forms for user names and passwords (Education Account)
- BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF - website for avatar
- Set-up VoiceThread account and practice VoiceThread
- Google doc of all usernames and passwords
- On clipboard on desk
- iTunes/GarageBand - listen to composition, edit in GarageBand to 30 seconds
- Discussion of Copyright
- Visual - Flash, Claymation, Legos, Movies
- Complete Project and post on website
- Listen to "Classics for Kids" podcasts
- Login to VoiceThread and post what "fact" was incorrect
- Comments from Iroquois West Third Graders, reply back
- Final Skype call
Iroquois West Third Graders
- VoiceThread set up (Free Account)
- Create Avatars - BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF
- Skype - First skype call - meet and greet
- Listen to "Classics for Kids" podcasts
- As a class, students decide on what they are going to say on VoiceThread
- Discussion of "digital footprint"
- Students comment on Music Composer Videos from Sunset Ridge
- Students read comments and comment back
- Final Skype call
Composer Videos 2008-2009 - Link
- Rossini - William Tell Overture
- Bizet - Farandaole (L’Arlesienne)
- Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
- Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
Composer Videos 2009-2010 - Link
- Williams - Jaws
- Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumblebee
- Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King (VoiceThread) - In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
- Williams - Close Encounters