In a Flash

 

Website - www.carolbroos.com

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This is taught in the second year of the curriculum.

 

Purpose, decide what you want

Each project has a specific purpose. If you are going to put it on the internet, that is one purpose. Showing a movie with music is another purpose. Making a DVD is an entirely different purpose and different presentation. The purpose should scream back at you.

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Start small, let it grow!

Take baby steps, and let it grow. The smaller you start the more successful the project will be. A thirty-second presentation is fine.

 

Will you LET me, not will you TEACH me.

I have a project-based curriculum. I keep my guidelines open and have NO rubric. The moment I started without a rubric, the more creative projects outside the box I received. Let the students work.

 

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Curriculum, start with the story, build to movie scoring

Make sure they are experts in each level before going on.

I start with Sound Studio (easier than Audacity)

 

Fourth grade projects

•    Keyboard stories, creating moods

•    Sound Studio, recording voices

•    GarageBand, no pictures

•    iTunes, burning CD’s

•    File-sharing, limited posting

 

Fifth grade projects

•    Garageband, with photos

•    iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie

•    iWeb and commenting

•    Flash

•    Sibelius compositions

•    Spectacular Projects

 

Sixth grade projects

•    Everything posted and commented upon

•    Garageband, with photos/movies

•    More room for individualization and personalization

 

Seventh and Eighth grade projects

•    Individual and personal

 

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Tech Tips

•    Movie scoring

        Sibelius has free .mov without sound, must own Sibelius

 

•    Flash with Garageband

        You can make flash, keynote or powerpoint .mov to export. 

 

 

 

To export your movie from Flash

Open file in Flash, export file as a movie. Save in Movies. Use .mov

 

 

 

 

Open up Garageband (as a movie score) and drag and drop it in the .mov file

 

 

 

How to have your iPod read your movie.

You are in iTunes. Highlight the file you want converted. Go to advanced and convert selection for iPod

 

You are in iTunes

 

 

 

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Examples of Podcasts using Garageband: www.carolbroos.com and www.beatechie.com

 

Flash and GarageBand

• Pencil
• French Custom

 

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