Activities+for+Secondary+Music

Activities for use with technology for Years 7-12. (8-13 for NZ). These can be adapted for other grades as well.

Year 7:
 * 1) Music From Different Decades:
 * 2) Film Scores:
 * 3) Keyboard (Kids write their own keyboard themes)

Year 8:
 * 1) STOMP

Year 9: Musical Theatre: Music Genres: World Music:

Year 10: Music Technology (as a subject as a pre-cursor to MIS) Arranging:

Year 11: Music Industry Skills: VCE 1 and 2:

Year 12: Music Industry Skills: VCE 1 and 2:


 * Activities for Professional Development:**
 * 1) **Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com**
 * 2) Join the wiki- set up an account (Username and Password)
 * 3) Name your wiki (something you can remember), choose "Protected" and then K-12 Education under "Type".
 * 4) Create New Page. Type Page Title and Tags to find your page.
 * 5) Type some text in the Text Editor and press Save.
 * 6) For a web link: Copy web address (Ctrl + C) and then paste into Text Editor (Ctrl + V).
 * 7) Hi-light the web link and go to "Link". Select : Add Link.
 * 8) To add YouTube Video: Go to Widget > Video > YouTube. (Go to the selected YouTube video and there is a box that says embed. Ctrl + C (Copy) the code and then Ctrl + V (Paste) the code into the Text box and click "Save"


 * 1) **Audacity:**
 * 2) Sound Effects to be used: **[]**
 * 3) [] Soundscape Lesson Plan-could also record live sounds/found sounds.
 * 4) Skills: Import Audio: Drag and Drop from Desktop or go "Project > Import Audio".
 * 5) Skills: Cut, Copy, Paste.
 * 6) Skills: Move Audio along (Time shift tool)
 * 7) Skills: Remove Sections of Audio.
 * 8) Skills: Remove lyrics from songs.
 * 9) Skills: Change Tempo (without changing quality of sound).
 * 10) Skills: Change Pitch (Great for Voiceovers)
 * 11) Skills: Recording Audio from Computer (i.e. YouTube) []
 * 12) Skills: Getting ready to record by setting up your preferences: []
 * 13) Skills: Mixing (Pan/Volume Levels and Fading In/ Fading out..)


 * 1) MuseScore: (Download at: >
 * 2) [[file:Twinkle Twinkle.pdf]]
 * 3) Skills: Entering Notes: Ghosting Tool (N) or combo of numbers and letter names.
 * 4) Skills: Change Octaves: Ctrl + Up Arrow or Down Arrow
 * 5) Skills: Chords: Shift + letter name to stack notes for chord.
 * 6) Skills: Cut, Copy, Paste: Click in the bar (above notes) to highlight bar (to copy or delete)
 * 7) Skills: Delete Extra Bars (Highlight one bar and use the across arrow to hi-light more bars.


 * 1) Karaoke iTune Prompter (Download at: []
 * 2) [] Tutorials for Karaoke iTune Prompter.
 * 3) Skills: Import Audio and then Add Lyrics.
 * 4) Skills: Syncing Audio and Text
 * 5) Skills: Exporting Video (Goes to iTunes)


 * Interactive with a Diff:** Using either computer or IWB to create a visual drawing whilst listening to music.
 * 1) Flashpaint: []
 * 2) Jackson Pollock: []


 * Online Sequencing/Composition Tools:**
 * 1) Myna: []
 * 2) Soundation Studio: []


 * Resources for Teachers:**
 * 1) Delicious: []
 * 2) Wordle: []
 * 3) Bubbl.us/beta: []