Leshner, Sharon

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Montclair State University Digital Commons

Sonify Your LessonsInfusing creative sound and music in class projectshttp://eld.musedlab.orgDo you currently use creative sound in your lessons?What can music add to the learning process?Can you think of a time where sound helped you learn something?Overview11:00 Intro and Overview11:10 Blitz Speed Demos11:30 Hands on Breakout Explorations● Aqwertyon (Jamie)● Scratch + Music (Alex)● Makey Makey + MK-1 (Sharon)● Groove Pizza + TypeDrummer (Adam)11:45 Break12:00 Your Group Challenge: Explore interdisciplinary connections12:30 Share Ideas and Debrief Our projects work best in Google Chrome!Download from:http://google.com/chrome/the aQWERTYon-Maps keys of the QWERTY keyboard to musical scales with no wrong notes!-Play your computer keyboard like an expressive instrument-Record takes over any YouTube video-Sends MIDI out to other applications-Saves takes with a hashed URLthe MK-1 Sampler + Makey Makey- Designed by Eric Rosenbaum- In browser sampler- Record your own voice, and pitch shift it to different scales- Play back sound using your computer keyboard- Works with Makey Makey keys- Record performancesGroove Pizza- Radial drum machine for kids- Based on Ethan Hein’s master’s thesis- Place pizza toppings on a circular grid to create drum beats- Change the tempo, slices, sounds, swing, and reverb- More ‘normal’ and even sounding beats create more regular and symmetrical shapes - Effectively visualize rhythms and hear patternstypeDrummer-Turn text into drum beats in this live audio coding environment- Every character triggers a different drum sample- Explore patterns in words- Load your own samples- Saves beats to hashed urlMakey Makey-This invention kit can turn anything into a keyboard...even bananas!-Automatically maps to up, down, left, right arrows, space bar, and ‘w’, ‘a’, ‘s’, ‘d’, ‘f’, keysMIT Scratch + Music- Block based programming environment for kids- Create games, music, interactive stories, and animations with little programming skill-Use your keyboard or Makey Makey to make your programs interactive-Use patterns and sequences of events to create musicCHOOSE A MUSICAL  INTERFACE AND GET STARTED!● Aqwertyon (Jamie)● Scratch + Music (Alex)● Makey Makey + MK-1 (Sharon)● Groove Pizza + TypeDrummer (Adam)Find a group of educators who teach something different than you! Come up with 3-5 ideas for interdisciplinary connections with music and sound. Choose one of your ideas and outline a unit of study that incorporates creative sound to share with the group.Your Group Challenge: Explore interdisciplinary connectionsSoo.. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES YOU FACED INTEGRATING CREATIVE SOUND TODAY?WHY IS CREATIVE SOUND INTERESTING TO YOU AND/OR YOUR STUDENTS?Ideas, ideas, ideas! What ideas were sparked for you today?What are the first steps you can take to add music making to your teaching?

Sonify Your Lesson Using aQWERTYon

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Sonify Your Lesson Using aQWERTYon

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