Category Archives: Uncategorized

Technology is amazing!!!!! Today we had so many cool gadgets to play with! Highlights included: Makey Makey (painting with lead paint and attaching small alligator clips to the picture which produce noises when the pictures are touched – art made interactive!) Jaycar Short Circuits (You can make your own guitar pedals and so much more!)Continue reading “September 25th”

Playing with LittleBits – Electronic Building Blocks! SonicPi – Coding our own music! The amazing guest lecturer, Rowena also runs incredible workshops for high school girls with her company “Girls’ Programming Network”. Visit her website for more information https://sites.google.com/site/girlsprogrammingnetwork/.

We took over Recital Hall West to film Lolita performing James Humberstone’s composition ‘Fantasia’.

These websites use games to teach students about music: https://learningmusic.ableton.com/ http://rhythmdr.com/ https://teachedm.com/ http://isleoftune.com/ (great for sequencing) https://melodics.com/

Here’s a screenshot of some of the features I practiced using within iBook Author.

When using Google Images, filter the results so that you are certain you aren’t breaking any laws. Websites such as Pixabay are a source of photos which are free to use.

Learning how to make high quality music videos for future students using ScreenFlow. We got to learn how to sync various video footage of the same performance and switch between different camera angles to form a music video.

My Mixed Bag Arrangement: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wSrjYMwyr2QDySKSMl2imNjDrCXSbasE?usp=sharing To produce my own arrangement of John Williams’ “Welcome to Jurassic Park”, I utilised numerous resources including recordings on YouTube and various arrangements on Musescore.  The foremost YouTube video I studied was ‘Jurassic Park (1993) – Welcome to Jurassic Park Scene (1/10) – Movieclips’ which showed the scene from theContinue reading “Mixed Bag Arranging”

This week we were introduced to numerous music notation programs including: Photoscore StaffPad Notate Me (Not as accurate as Photoscore and StaffPad) Notion (great playback) Flat (really easy to use) Note Flight (able to buy and sell music notation) Dorico Musescore (we practiced writing music): Best James Quote: “If your class doesn’t work, turn itContinue reading “August 21st”

In the second week of Technology in Music Education we succeeded in becoming professional techies. We were able to practice setting up, using and packing down a $36,000 camera set which included cameras, tripods, handheld cameras, LED lights and a softbox. We also practiced setting up dynamic and condenser mics both into a digital soundContinue reading “August 14th”