Musically Smart Menu:

1. GarageBand (iLife, on your MacBook!)

• compose music from "loops" (drag and drop instruments from the library - a song in ten minutes!)
• compose music with real instruments
• combine both
• record yourself singing, then record yourself singing harmony to yourself!
• Listen to "Spy V" (Jason Spivey) in song 1 below: his first song on GarageBand!  Clay's first two songs are below it. They all took less than 15 minutes to make!

2. iMovie

• edit video to match a song (including any song you create in GarageBand!)
• Clay did this one in about 20 minutes, using pictures from iPhoto (in iLife on your MacBook) and a song from GarageBand, edited together in iMovie (you guessed it - also in iLife on your MacBook)

   

3. Podcasting

• recite poems as "radio shows" - podcasts
• combine them with images for an impressionistic audio slideshow
• National Book Festival Podcasts: from the US Library of Congress.  Great applications for the classroom: make your own, or use for lessons.

• NPR series that airs music clips, then asks viewers to write descriptions of the musicians voice;  also great for "word" learners (thanks to Carolyn Foote)

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