Digital Audio Some items that GarageBand Can Do:

1. Digital AudioSome items that GarageBand Can Do: • Create • Record • Edit • Multi-track recording • Digital-great sound quality • Microphone • Mixer • Mixing tracks into one track • Movie scoring • Burn music to CD to upload to website • Podcasts

2. Teaching Applications Using GarageBand • Rehearsing in Parts • Creating Accompaniments • Improvisations • Compositions Show Holiday Concert Folder

3. GarageBand Podcasting

4. Podcasting • What is it? • Pod (Programming on Demand) + broadcast = podcast • Do I need an iPod? • No • What tools do I need? • Software • Hardware • Computer with Internet access

5. Podcasting • Assessment • Enhancement to a current unit • Meet several of the MENC National Standards • Teaching Tool • Educational Tool for parents • Students express their creativity

6. Podcasting • Software that meets an elementary music budget: • Audacity (MC/PC) - freeware, audio • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Goldwave (PC) - free evaluation version, $19 for one year • http://www.goldwave.com/index.php • TrakAxPC - freeware (or Pro version for $24.95), audio and video • http://www.trakax.com • GarageBand (MAC) - $ iLife, audio and video • http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ • Acoustica Mixcraft (PC) - $, audio • http://www.acoustica.com/

7. Podcasting • Hardware that meets an elementary music budget: • Computer with Internet Access - Think RAM • Microphones: • Computer’s Internal microphone – free • Blue Snow Ball $ • http://www.bluemic.com/ • Portable Recorders: • MicroTrack II $$ • http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrackII.html • Zoom H2 $ or Zoom H4N $$ • SoundTree: Korg Sound-on-Sound • iPod/iPod Touch (2nd Generation +)/iPhone application ($) • http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/italk

8. Podcasting • Teachers: • Choir Warmups • Teaching a Song • Dance Macabre • http://mrsmuench.com/ • Tools/Enhancements: • Modest Mussorgsky from Classics for Kids (http://classicsforkids.com) • Cat • Elementary Students’ Podcasts • Radio WillowWeb (http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/archive.php?iid=3912) • Many Voices for Darfur Project - Norris Elementary School in Southampton, Massachusetts; Butler Elementary School in Sacramento, California; and the Odyssey School in Denver, Colorado • My students

9. Podcasting • Steve Jobs Demos Podcasting • GarageBand makes it easy! • Demonstrate

10. Text: • In Integrating Technology in the Elementary Music Classroom at CCSU, we learned how to create wikispaces for our music classes, how to utilize Audacity and GaragBand, and evaluated music software and music websites.

11. Where you can post podcasts: • Where can I post a podcast for people to download? • Your website • Your school’s website • Your free wikispace (10 mb or less) • http://www.podomatic.com • http://www.mypodcast.com/ • Publish to iTunes: http://www.ehow.com/how_2027326_publish-podcast-itunes.html

12. Why podcast? • Excellent assessment tool! • Enhancement to a musical unit. • Very hands-on project for the students. • Post on website, wikispace, etc so the parents can access them and see a glimpse into you curriculum besides concerts.

13. TrakAx For my PC friends…

14. Podcasting • Create a podcast that you will be able to utilize in your classroom. Or • Use GarageBand to create an accompaniment that you will use this school year Or • If you feel that you would like to work more on your wikipage or blog, evaluate software or websites,or work on your lesson plan, you may do that instead. Please use the time to work on a project that will enhance your classroom this fall.