Rolling Along

The wikispaces website is in full use and the kids are loving it.  I find them logging in over the weekend to have discussions on the discussion board.  They think it is amazing that they can interact with me and with each other outside of the school day.  The students are constantly asking for me to post more clips and questions that they can peruse at home.  We'll see how long the fascination with the website lasts.


Vacation days, assemblies and field trips have consumed large quantities of our class time as of late so the kids have not had much opportunity to work on GarageBand in the past two weeks.  We're going to jump into GarageBand again on Thursday.


The assignment for Thursday is as follows:

• Create a 32-bar song in AABA form. 
• Each section of the song should be eight bars long. 
• Include at least two loops in each section- a percussion loop and a melodic loop. 
• Save to the folder on the StudentShare.  

We are also going to spend a bit of time discussing the elements that contribute to an interesting and cohesive song.  At the moment the kids are mostly picking loops that they think sound cool but the different sections do not sound as if they are at all related to each other.  My hope is that the kids will eventually be able to create a coherent finished piece.