Musical Composition and Podcasting in the Elementary Classroom
Back in November, our absolutely amazing Elementary music
teacher, Vince Bullen, and I led an EARCOS Weekend Workshop on
GarageBand. Our goal was to spend two full days exploring
GarageBand in a hands-on, project-based environment, tailored to
the needs of both music and elementary classroom teachers. Even
with this very specific focus, we had 10 international school
teachers from around Asia join us in Bangkok for the weekend.
Thankfully, Vince is a complete expert in all things musical, so
he started the workshop off with a thorough overview of pretty
much everything GarageBand has to offer: from creating your own
music, to editing pre-created tracks, to making “magic
GarageBand” songs. Within about 1 minute of his introduction I
had learned a number of useful tricks: - How to raise and lower
the volume of a specific track (use the little “down arrow” on
any track to get the volume for that specific track) - How to
block out background noise and