K12 Online Conference

December 2009 

Carol Broos - Sunset Ridge School, Northfield IL, US (beatechie@gmail.com)

Carol Vrotny - Grass Lake School, Antioch IL, US (cvrotny@gmail.com)

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Questions for discussion:

1. What has been your experiences in composing music? Do you have specific guidelines or have students create music, then give direction.

2. How are you reaching gifted and talented musicians within your class?

3. Should music be a “stand-alone” art or should we always have music and art tied together to create multi-media projects?

Websites and Files on Presentation

www.vtmidi.org - Vermont Midi Project

www.sibelius.com - notation software

www.lazertron.net - Gaming website, won national award

www.chordsville.com - three year project, student composed, directed, and produced all material

www.cmusicmaker.com - composition website

Student Videos

Number 47 - Eighth Grade - Flash, Piano Keyboard, GarageBand 

Uniqua - A podcast from a seventh grader

How To Create a GarageBand song

GarageBand, not GarbageBand article (pdf download)

How To Compose a Song using Notation

Composition at Sunset Ridge School

Music Curriculum

Sunset Ridge Music Curriculum

Student files on

www.carolbroos.com

Alien Attack Fourth grade - first GarageBand song with a theme

Jazz Fifth grade - first GarageBand

Holiday Fifth grade - Using a movie from Sibelius

Burger Blast Sixth grade - Screen shots of Inspiration, with a story and a song

Sammy and Olivia Play Fifth grade - piano only, recorded, then placed in GarageBand

The Three Pigs - Sixth grade, stories with piano keyboard

The Pencil Sixth grade - Using Flash and GarageBand

The Need for Speed Sixth grade - ELL student, drawings in flash

Turtle Dove Sixth grade - Sibelius and GarageBand

Dance Sixth grade rap

Presents Sixth grade - Piano Keyboard, story, and GarageBand

GFIII  - Sixth grade - GarageBand, Flash, iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie

3rd Trimester Eighth grade - composed own loops on keyboard - NO piano lessons

Spring Storm - Music Composition and performance

    Composition

    Movie

Number 47 - Eighth Grade - Flash, Piano Keyboard, GarageBand 

Uniqua - A podcast from a seventh grader

Teacher Files

www.carolbroos.net

Sunset Ridge Teachers - two day workshop

     Quadratic Formula

     Mr. Bean

Additional Websites

Superchord - Musical composition and video of movie score show

    Composition

    www.chordsville.com

Lazertron - gaming site

www.lazertron.net