Comments on: Name Chant: An Activity That You Can Do With Your Students During The First Few Days Of School http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/ Amy M. Burns's Blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:22:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Amy Burns http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-126 Amy Burns Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:44:26 +0000 http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-126 Thanks John! I am so glad that you will use the lesson and adapt it for your classroom. That's why I put lessons on the website and blog--so teachers can use them and adapt them to fit their students. Have a great 08-09 school year! Sincerely, Amy Thanks John! I am so glad that you will use the lesson and adapt it for your classroom. That’s why I put lessons on the website and blog–so teachers can use them and adapt them to fit their students.

Have a great 08-09 school year!

Sincerely,
Amy

]]> By: john Crever http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-125 john Crever Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:37:28 +0000 http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-125 Very Cool Stuff Amy. I've checked out the whole website. We've met before, don't ask me where, I used to be in the private school world but am currently answering a call to teach in urban Newark. I stumbled onto your site via the Soundtree page. I've been exploring the possibility of integrating more technology into the music curriculum. I'm a pretty straight forward Kodaly teacher who steals shamelessly from whoever and whatever I think might be useful and fun. I won't be able to be at the Soundtree inservice in Aug, I'm on heavy duty child care this summer, but it all looks really wonderful. I also enjoyed the blog, I'm going to try the name chant, but I'd like to modify it for my students: all sing the first two bars, individual sings his/her name in two beats, all echo the child's name the next two beats, all sing some syncopated answer for the next two beats (probably containing some sharp "oo-oo"s, then all sing the student's name in one beat (beat three of m.4) and take a breath for the last beat before moving onto the next student. Anyway, thanks for the idea and you cool website. I'll come by again sometime. Very Cool Stuff Amy. I’ve checked out the whole website. We’ve met before, don’t ask me where, I used to be in the private school world but am currently answering a call to teach in urban Newark. I stumbled onto your site via the Soundtree page. I’ve been exploring the possibility of integrating more technology into the music curriculum. I’m a pretty straight forward Kodaly teacher who steals shamelessly from whoever and whatever I think might be useful and fun. I won’t be able to be at the Soundtree inservice in Aug, I’m on heavy duty child care this summer, but it all looks really wonderful. I also enjoyed the blog, I’m going to try the name chant, but I’d like to modify it for my students: all sing the first two bars, individual sings his/her name in two beats, all echo the child’s name the next two beats, all sing some syncopated answer for the next two beats (probably containing some sharp “oo-oo”s, then all sing the student’s name in one beat (beat three of m.4) and take a breath for the last beat before moving onto the next student. Anyway, thanks for the idea and you cool website. I’ll come by again sometime.

]]> By: Amy Burns http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-122 Amy Burns Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:55:05 +0000 http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-122 Hi Richard, Thanks for the heads up with TrakAx! That's amazing and it is free for PC! I am going to play with that more on my MacBook Pro. I love having a computer that can run both platforms. I know of Acoustica's Mixcraft for PC, which is similar to GarageBand, but cannot perform the photo/artwork that GarageBand can do. They have a demo version which works well for a short amount of time. The price of that is now $64.95 (http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/). Amy Hi Richard,

Thanks for the heads up with TrakAx! That’s amazing and it is free for PC! I am going to play with that more on my MacBook Pro. I love having a computer that can run both platforms.

I know of Acoustica’s Mixcraft for PC, which is similar to GarageBand, but cannot perform the photo/artwork that GarageBand can do. They have a demo version which works well for a short amount of time. The price of that is now $64.95 (http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/).

Amy

]]> By: Richard McCready http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-121 Richard McCready Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:45:07 +0000 http://amymburns.musiced.net/2008/07/28/name-chant-an-activity-that-you-can-do-with-your-students-during-the-first-few-days-of-school/#comment-121 This is a nice activity to start the year, Amy. This might work really well in middle school too, particularly with an Urban beat using Garage Band. I love your suggestion of Band-in-a-Box too. Are you familiar with TrakAx? It's a great alternative for this sort of lesson for teachers who do not have Macs and need an easy-to-use looping sequencer. It's for PC and it's free, very colorful and intuitive. You can find it at www.TrakAx.com - you should check it out. This is a nice activity to start the year, Amy. This might work really well in middle school too, particularly with an Urban beat using Garage Band. I love your suggestion of Band-in-a-Box too. Are you familiar with TrakAx? It’s a great alternative for this sort of lesson for teachers who do not have Macs and need an easy-to-use looping sequencer. It’s for PC and it’s free, very colorful and intuitive. You can find it at www.TrakAx.com - you should check it out.

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