JamStudio.com is a website that is designed to create music by mixing instruments, setting the tempo and selecting notes/chords. The music can be saved online or to an MP3. Once users have created their music they can listen, share or apply it to other areas.
JamStudio Project Ex..mov
- Once you have logged into jamstudio.com you can begin recording your own music.
- JamStudio allows you to choose the instrument, style, chords, and tempo.
- First, you will choose your instrument and then move over and select a style.
- What you select goes to the left hand column.
- Then you will choose your chords.
- To lengthen your song you can continue on to more pages and at the bottom, you can choose the order in which you want the pages to play.
- Lastly, you can choose the tempo you would like.
- Once all of that is complete, press the play button and enjoy!
This tool can be useful in literacy in many ways.
* Teachers can use JamStudio in the classroom by forming groups and giving the groups two opposing types of moods. Each group will then create music that conveys the words. For example, group one is given "ecstatic" and "depressed." And they are to start with one emotion and end with the other, or change back and forth, etc.
* Another lesson is creating a play and adding music to a story. This tool helps the students play around with sounds, tempo, and composing. There are many elements in a story and as they transition so does the mood. JamStudio.com helps students identify different types of moods through music as they create it along the way. With the help from a music teacher, students will learn which family of instruments heightens or relieves certain feelings. For instance, string instruments are often used to intensify fear.
* Another lesson that would utilize Jamstudio would be having students listen to music created by their fellow classmates and write down the feelings they had while listening. They also will identify and discuss which instruments made them feel certain ways. This will be a short exercise to have students begin thinking about how music and mood collaborate with each other.
Other Sources/Links
* http://www.inspiration.com/kidspiration-reading-and-writing-examples
- Inspiration can be used along with JamStudio to help students brainstorm ideas about different moods they are feeling while listening to different music.
* http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Audacity can be used in place of JamStudio and can be accessible on various types of computers.
* http://innovations2010unco.pbworks.com/w/page/28156170/Arts%20and%20Music-%20GarageBand
- GarageBand is another music producing software that is primarily made for Macs, but can be modified and downloaded for different types of computers.
Standards:
JamStudio fits into Standard 3 (Fourth Grade) under writing and composition concept 1, The recursive writing process is used to create a variety of literary genres for an intended audience.
Content Area: Reading, Writing and Communicating
Grade Level Expectations: Fourth Grade
Standard: 3. Writing and Composition
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Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)
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Concepts and skills students master:
1. The recursive writing process is used to create a variety of literary genres for an intended audience
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21st Century Skill and Readiness Competencies |
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Students Can:
- Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. (CCSS: W.4.1)
- Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer's purpose. (CCSS: W.4.1a)
- Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details. (CCSS: W.4.1b)
- Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition). (CCSS: W.4.1c)
- Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented. (CCSS: W.4.1d)
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. (CCSS: W.4.3)
- Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. (CCSS: W.4.3a)
- Choose planning strategies to support text structure and intended outcome
- Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. (CCSS: W.4.3b)
- Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. (CCSS: W.4.3c)
- Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. (CCSS: W.4.3d)
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. (CCSS: W.4.3e)
- Write poems that express ideas or feelings using imagery, figurative language, and sensory details
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Inquiry Questions:
- How are literary genres different in form and substance?
- How does a graphic organizer assist a writer?
- How does writing create a visual image for the reader?
Relevance & Application:
- Different forms of literary genre can express the same ideas in different ways.
- Learning to write with strong words will increase how readers will perceive the messages writers are trying to convey. (Write about an event using formal and informal language.)
- Writers who connect their personal experiences to writing will increase their skills.
Nature Of:
- Writers include personal experiences in their writing.
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