PE_4

Adobe SoundBooth is an application I am continuing to learn about because it is a part of the Adobe C5 kit.  I believe I ewill eventually combine many of the attributes of Adobe by connecting sounds and visual images to make great presentations. 

First I went to the URL www.adobe.com/products/soundbooth/.  There I downloaded the overview of the program.  The designers made SoundBooth ffro recording, editing and mastering audio so it can be used in any Adobe program especially video. Sound effects are also available for adding excitement to any presentation. I tried to visit the Garrick Chow tutorial and Firefox crashed while attempting it. Lynda.com tutorial explains further editing capabilities.   :Like removing unwanted room noise or scratches from a vintage LP/album.

Another screen shows how sound effects can be added by manipulation the green positive bar or the red negative bar on a graph using integers as the quantity of measurement.

As the tutorial plays it gives the student an audio example of the effect.  Similar to Garageband Adobe Soundbooth has prerecorded scores that allow you to use them at will because they are copyright free. One of the greatest features is the speech to text  capabilities so you can speak into a microphone and the program will convert your audio to text.

 Obviously Soundbooth is a great tool for video professionals and presenters to use for enhancing their final products.  I hope to continue using the features for my technology inclusion into my music class.

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BP_9 Web 2.0

One of the issues I face is my ability to use real-time teaching tools.  The WiZiQ website is such a Web 2.0 tool.  One of the best features is the capabilities to write or use existing lessons available on their URL http://www.wiziq.com.  The website is designed to be used by teachers globally.  I found a lesson about instrumentation with colorful drawings and spelling.  The website has links for teachers to meet and collaborate.  There is a portion that helps you as an educator to prepare lessons and exams. We as educators are also dealing with our own multiple intelligences.  I like visuals and audio lessons.  There are video lessons available for students and teachers.  I like the fact that you can search for classes in order to learn about as subject you may need to brush up on.  I imagine myself enrolling in course and sending students to the website to encourage rigor and engagement in and out of my classroom.  WiZiQ is user friendly so the elementary student and the college student can find resources to fit there current needs as a student.  It can be found on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, yahoo Groups and more. This Web 2.0 is worth using as a support system for parents that need to connect to teachers and subjects when they are trying to help their students at home.  Parents can network with other parents world wide about school and student issues. As the teachers, parents and students become a learning community the possibilities of academic achievement increase.

PE_3

Each one of these programs is available in the Adobe Creative suite.  This is another platform to engage students and prepare them for future projects, assignments and careers. But first, I need to learn how to use them myself check out their URL at:
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Another sound editing software that I hope to use is Sound Booth which is a part of the Adobe suite.  Audio recording, editing, and mixing is an important part of applications in music technology. The tutorial I found on Lynda.com shows the learner how to apply basic features within the Adobe Suite.  I am trying to use these tools to encourage student participation this program is a good addition to my action research. Here are some screen shots of my very first recording with sound booth.  

PE_2

Google docs is much more powerful than I first imagined.  Although we have used it for our early team projects I often found myself wanting to learn more about the capabilities of Google docs hoping I could keep up with the fast paced life of being a teacher and student family man.  Lynda.com offers a great start for my studies. I first watched the Chapter. 1. Welcome to Google Apps | Now playing: Introducing Docs for Google Apps. This over view helped my to gage the lessons that apply to my action research..  I found that Google docs is more useful for me that Microsoft Office because it is Internet-based, the spreadsheet, presentations and the word processor are much more versatile because files are accessible world-wide and the Google docs applications will load into Adobe PDFs and Microsoft Office.

PE1

GarageBand is a great tool for students to learn music. Ideally for me  I will  instruct students to click in the Garageband icon which looks like a small guitar at the bottom of the Mac screen. Once open the visual display has a list on the left that give the user or student the options of starting a new project, learning to play a guitar or piano. There is a lesson store where you or your students can learn to play a song from internationally known artists. The Magic Garageband is the feature listed next and that is the one I want ted learn more about because it allowes the student to create songs within the genres of Blues, Rock, Jazz Reggae, Funk, Latin, Slow Blues, Country, and Roots Rock.  There are two more listings.  One is “IPhone” and the other is “Recent Projects”

I wanted to better understand the features of Garageband that would allow my students to create songs from the genre of their choice so I went to Lynda.com.  There I found tutorials about how to create songs using “Magic Garageband.  The Magic Garage band has pictures of instruments positioned within ech geanre selected.  As a performer I can see the extended lesson in why certain instruments should be grouped together.  As presented in the tutorial I realized the ability to change instrumentation adds to the possibility of students learning about timbre. The tutorial explains how to adjust the level of each instrument so each student can mix the loudness of each instruments to fit their personal taste..  Another effect is Magic Garageband can shuffle the instrumentation during the play mode.  I am hoping to make connections to the iLife by Mac.

I am trying to learn many of the great features in my Macbook.  I have recorded and podcast but now I am adding features that my students can use easily. Garageband has a feature called Magic Band it has prerecorded samples of instruments playing genres like Reggae, Rock, Jazz, Blues, and Country.  I learned to add a microphone and add a track for vocals. I sang a few lyrics to show students what they could do.

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