Today I was reading Dr. Scott Watson’s blog of comments from his participants for his summer course titled, “Using Technology to Unlock Creativity.” The comments from his participants are so wonderful and informative that it makes me hope that Scott will teach this course again because I would like to take it.
One item that I read about was that the participants really liked a presentation that Wayne Splettstoeszer gave about internet resources. One of the participants mentioned groove lab. When I went to check it out, I realized that I had visited this site before. It is an excellent site because it allows you to easily create your own drum groove with numerous instruments. Once you created your groove, you can save it as a wav, aiff, or au file. When you do that, you can import this audio file into GarageBand or other digital audio software and use it as a loop. Therefore, you can have your elementary students successfully create their own drum loops. The possibilities for where that can lead in your music classroom are endless!
I took my first two TI:ME courses with Scott and he is one of the most dedicated and patient teachers that I know. If you ever get the opportunity to take any of his summer workshops, I would highly recommend it!
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