Sound, Music, Computing.

incredibox 2

incredibox

2 explore

audacity

2 sequence

2 simple music toolkit

A high-quality computing education equips pupils to understand and change the world through logical thinking and creativity, including by making links with mathematics, science, and design and technology. The core of computing is computer science, in which pupils are taught the principles of information and computation, and how digital systems work. Computing equips pupils to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of media. It also ensures that pupils become digitally literate – able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.

KLIPS- shows how music can be used in computing in order to promote creativity while also learning about sound, music and computing.

During the session we used purple mash as a resource for KS1 so that children can explore making short musical pieces using clear and simple instruments. applications like 2Beat and 2explore are more general applications while 2sequence is a more focused resource and more purposeful. it can be used cross-curricularly to subjects like history to compose a piece to match soldiers marching into battle etc. -this makes the music and the computing purposeful.

INCREDIBOX

I LOVED USING THIS RESOURCE BOTH IN SESSION, AND THEN FURTHER EXPLORING IT IN MY OWN TIME. It allows students to explore how different beats, tunes, sound effects and choruses sound together using different combinations and different amounts. It also has a record option so children can export the sound file they create and use it for different purposes around the classroom.

Soundscapes and podcasts

a soundscape is:

*a combination of musical and sometimes non-musical sounds to create an atmosphere or environment

*a soundscape is composed from sounds recorded in any environment. It can be an accurate aural portrayal of a particular location, or it can be a contrived piece aiming to create the experience of a particular location

*an aural landscape

*mood music?

we listened to different soundscapes which represented different routines or scenarios. we then discussed how these could be introduced and made in the classroom. with KLIPS children can download different sound files and use audacity to merge them together to form their own soundscape. it allows opportuniity to be creative and also to create something with a purpose and its own atmosphere.

A PODCAST

something which is pre-recorded and then listened to.

can be used in the classroom for

*narrating a story with sound effects etc

*For homework to listen to something. Go home and listen rather than go home and read.

*A bit more accessible in terms of SEN children struggling to read etc.