Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please write a comment on this post in which you share the music you made and write about the process of making the music.
As you consider what you will write, think about the following questions...
1. What is the very best thing about this tool or the way in which you use the tool?
2. What might be improved - on your part, or the part of the tool? How easy is it to find helpful tutorials on the site/tool or on YouTube?
3. What are some of the potential risks and benefits for teachers and students using this tool?
4. How easy is it to keep your work and make use of it with other tools?
5. How might students represent their learning (in your actual content area) using this tool?
Thanks in advance for your great thinking!
Some tools you might consider...
SoundTrap: Create and record songs and podcasts. If Google Drive and GarageBand had a child...
Flat.io: If Google Docs and Finale/Sibelius had a child... This is music notation on the web.
Incredibox: Fun digital beatbox(ish), you can control quite a bit and record your work.
Twisted Wave: You can record and edit audio, and it plays nice with Drive!
Soundation: Online audio creation/editing studio...
Quaver Music: All sorts of fun music education tools, especially great for music beginners
UJAM: Create, remix, share...
NoteFlight: Web based - create, view, print, hear and share professional quality music notation
Vocaroo: Simple voice recording, easy to embed
AudioTool: Super fun mix of audio recording tools in the cloud with Google sign in!
~Chris
I made a song and feel like a musician!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are a musician!
DeleteWow! What program were you using? I didn't really get anything accomplished.
DeleteWell SoundTrap was very fun! I look forward to collaborating!
ReplyDeleteA tutorial would help:)
DeleteNot sure what I am doing? How do I use the guitar and rock out?
ReplyDeleteI love incredibox because it is easy.
ReplyDeleteI agree! I found incredibox easy to use. I think it would be easy enough to navigate for my Kindergarteners. They would love that their creations could be saved and listened to many times.
DeleteI couldn't the sound to work :(
ReplyDeleteI used Soundtrap. Pretty easy to add in your own "beats". I could see students tying this in with poetry!
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of incorporating ELA!
DeleteGreat idea!
DeleteGreat idea!
DeleteReally liked how easy it was to quickly create using Soundtrap.
ReplyDeleteSound Trap is fun, but I need a quieter place. Frutchey was just jammin out too much for me to hear what I was creating.
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DeleteI still have some blank cassettes if you want to borrow one.
DeleteYou're too young to even know about a cassette tape!!!!
DeleteSoundTrap seems difficult to figure out, however fun to play the piano.
ReplyDeleteThe tool Incredibox could be used to teach patterns and symbols with my first grade students with simple drag and drop commands.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how Sound Trap allows you to use many different variations of different musical instruments.
ReplyDeleteSound Trap was pretty cool because it was user friendly but I cannot figure out how to delete a sound. Anyone know?
ReplyDeleteI just selected the sound and pressed the "delete" button :)
DeleteI just selected the sound and pressed the "delete" button :)
DeleteI used Sound trap, but need more time and a quieter place.
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was cool. Need more time to play!!!
ReplyDeleteI liked playing with the piano on Soundtrap.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what I'm doing with this music but I love it!
ReplyDeleteSounr Trap seems really fun. There is a lot the kids could do with this.
ReplyDeleteI don't know exactly how it works
ReplyDeleteYeah, understanding how things work can really clarify things.
DeleteMade something that sounded like background music!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how Sound Trap allows you to use many different variations of different musical instruments.
ReplyDeleteI made a song and feel like a musician!!!
ReplyDeleteCould this work for your students?
DeleteI didn't get to explore the music, but I DID get to play with the 3d pen. I'd need to play with it a lot more for my design to look good, but I can see many ways I could use this in my classroom. http://www.amazon.com/Scribbler-3D-Pen-Printing-Doodling/dp/B00OT2SI9A
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I used Sound trap, but need more time and a quieter place.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely more time. It's too hard to practice and apply in nano secomds
DeleteI got sidetrackeed.
ReplyDeleteComments should have positive and specific feedback. Maybe ask a critical and respectful question.
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was fun and rewarding because it was so easy! It didn't matter what I did, it turned out great. I'm going to introduce my 3rd grade granddaughter to this, because she is really creative. I can sit back and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI like the Flat program. As a music teacher, this would be great to have my students compose (create) their own pieces to play on their recorders. I like that they can hear it in a playback so they can hear how it is supposed to be performed. They can evaluate how it sounds and change it on the spot.
ReplyDeleteWhat grades do you teach and do your students have chromebooks?
DeleteBeth, What if students used soundtrap to record their practice?
DeleteI teach K-5 music. My students do not have chromebooks, yet. We are supposed to get them in the fall. Using soundtrap would be a great tool for them to hear themselves practice. I didn't think of that possibility because I didn't realize that could be done.
DeleteThis is awesome! They are such sponges at that age.
DeleteThis is awesome! They are such sponges at that age.
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ReplyDeleteI spent a bit of time on the Soundtrap application, which I found to be very familiar to Garageband. I feel this tool would be useful in my classroom as I could have students spend time on creating their very own sound designs on performance projects that I assign. I like that it is so closely formatted like garageband and that students would be able to pick up on it very quickly. I think one drawback of soundtrap is that it offers so many options that some people or students may get sidetracked by going through all of the features. I also think Incredibox is a useful tool for a very quick, simple project. However, SOundtrap save and share feature is much more user friendly.
ReplyDeleteThe opportunity to be introduced to these tools is awesome. However, I wish I had more of an opportunity to play around and explore them. How can I utilize this in a more structured way in my classroom?
ReplyDeleteI tried the SoundTrap website. I think it is the best because it seems like it is the easiest website to use. It allows you to actually look at each track and build your song. I feel that it would be the easiest for elementary kids.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a musical in any way, so Incredibox was easy. I could manipulate the sounds and make them sound pleasing for me, but I did not feel like I was "really" making music. Soundtrap was intimidating.
ReplyDeleteI completely understand about Soundtrap being intimidating. I felt the same way. Soon enough, the kids were doing so many awesome things that I had to start playing more myself. Did you find any great tutorials?
DeleteI teach first grade and really liked Incredibox because it seems as an easy way to introduce music to my students. My concern would be keeping them off of this during instruction time. Is there strategies to use Soundtrap with younger children? I am not familiar with loops or composing my own music.
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was a really easy to use site and the characters on the site added to the fun of it.
ReplyDeleteSoundtrap had a lot of variety compared to the other two sites. I liked the ability to browse all of the loops as well as being able to play different instruments. It also helped that it was very similar to Garageband.
Flat was a really interesting site to me. I like that they had different sounds like the Star Wars sounds but I would have really liked some kind of tutorial so that I could understand it a little better.
From my short review/test of the three music website options Soundtrap is the best because it has the best tutorial video. The other two sites would improve with better tutorials visual or audio. Major drawback would be students not having/bringing headphones and having to listen to so many different tunes being created at the same time.
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was my favorite because it was visually more fun and it was the easiest for me to use. Soundtrap seems the most interesting for my students to use due to its seemingly unlimited options. Students can barrow and create their own as well as save it for free!
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ReplyDeleteI thought that incredibox would be easiest for my younger students to use because it is simpler. Soundtrap would be best for my older students to use because it is slightly more complicated, however more can be made with it. How could you use this in an art classroom without taking up the entire class solely on playing with the music portion?
ReplyDeleteVisually, Incredibox surpasses the other options. For students who are not so musically inclined it is more fun and interesting to watch the sounds you create.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Icredibox. I think students will really enjoy making different sounds/beats. I teach primary age and they will get a kick out of dressing the avatars and how that changes their sound. I also like that their creations can be saved and published.
ReplyDeleteHere is my work: https://goo.gl/j3V7Lw
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was fun and rewarding because it was so easy! It didn't matter what I did, it turned out great. I'm going to introduce my 3rd grade granddaughter to this, because she is really creative. I can sit back and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThe opportunity to be introduced to these tools is awesome. However, I wish I had more of an opportunity to play around and explore them. How can I utilize this in a more structured way in my classroom?
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was sooooo fun!! I think kids would really get into this!
ReplyDeleteIncredibox was sooooo fun!! I think kids would really get into this!
ReplyDeleteSoundtrap has a lot of great features and capabilities, much more than I could finish with in 5 minutes, but I did start something I want to continue to play around with.
ReplyDeleteThere are some aspects of this technology would be helpful in my job.
ReplyDeleteUsed incredibox to create sounds. I created things that sounded "right" together but did not know how much of each piece was appropriate.
ReplyDeleteAdventures with Incredibox --> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kc4gigHfPOXzk2SXFIRnhrWWs
ReplyDeleteI'm learning how to use Incredibox to support writing in the Arts!
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-mZ7M7W5LICLXp5dXV2VzZFYW8/view
I'm learning how to use Incredibox to enhance student writing!!
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-mZ7M7W5LICLXp5dXV2VzZFYW8/view