An Incredible Way To Teach Music Using iPads In The Classroom [Video]

What happens when you take a classroom of students, add 24 iPads as well as sound recording gear and then throw in a live band? A pretty catchy song that gives you hope for the future of music in the digital age. Sounding like a professionally recorded and mixed track, Neil Johnston of Store Van Music (UK), created the song in a british classroom as you can see in the video below. The song has gotten so much acclaim that it’s actually now on sale at iTunes ( iTunes link ). [FYI: Neil contacted Edudemic to let everyone know about the new experiment and how it's helping students with their music, rhythm, and learning. Store Van Music is actually starting a tour where they’ll go to schools in the UK and help the students create outstanding music using iPads and their minds. Their stated goal is to put a stop to the 80% dropout rate of students in the musical arts. Get It In Your School Store Van Music is planning a US tour of the northeast in November and a southwest tour in January.

Wire the World If you’re ever unsure about the working status of a well known website such as Twitter or Facebook, check out Down Right Now to see if it’s up or having technical issues. It’s a great resource to keep you in the know instead of sitting there refreshing or wondering if your network is having issues. What to do if Down Right Now itself goes down? Time for some R & R! Sixth grade Spanish has turned a new leaf in learning with today’s in-class lesson! This week’s iPad in the classroom lesson had students taking iPad2’s around the library take first take pictures of activities they both like and don’t like to do. This lesson is so incredible in a myriad of ways that engages the student right from the beginning with the use of the iPad2 to take pictures rather than get started with the educational apps for the lesson. Music 4 the Classroom Garage Band, Beatwave, Barrel Tones, Virtuoso Piano Free, LoopJ, MadPad HD, and Six Strings Here are the apps and my take on each one.

Technology in Music Education The 4 Best iPad Apps That Can Make You A Better Musician We’ve posted the best iPad apps for musicians before but now, lets take a closer look at the best apps to help musicians learn a musican skill or develop their pre-existing skills. Here are the 4 best apps to make you a better musician: Karajan was featured on our list of the 5 best iPhone apps for musicicans a few months ago and now that there’s an iPad version of the app it may be the best mobile learning tool for music. The app provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords, scales, pitch and tempo where you can either click the right answer or play it on a simulated piano or guitar thanks to the Multi-Touch screen. Now musicians can train their ear and work on their piano/guitar skills virtually anywhere. Practice makes perfect and with a built-in headphone jack you can do your roommate a favor by not forcing them to hear you work your way to perfection. Price: $9.99 Price: Free Piano Man is Guitar Hero for pianists without the fickle virtual crowd. Price: Free

iPads 4 Learning @ Manor Lakes College Music Education Blog - Music Educators, Music Teachers and Music Technology Teaching Music « iPad and Technology in Music Education The app that will help teachers love creating Unit Plans and creating reports for their Administration! It is that time of the year that teachers everywhere (In the US at least) are heavy into the planning of this school years curriculum that will excite, motivate and push students to achieve new heights! Of course one goal of using technology as a teacher should be to make our life simpler and more effective. So I of course use my iPad and Laptop to try to make Lesson Planning as effective as possible. The State of Michigan, as well as the US Government, is demanding more and more reporting from us teachers every year. That means I really need to be able to create reports for my principals in an effortless manner – IF I WANT TO CONTINUE TO LOVE TEACHING! Enter two apps…. DayBook Pro is an app that is not the easiest to figure out the full potential of though, in fact I have complemented the developers several times on having an app that had great potential but was seriously lacking!

Thinking of an iPad for your classroom? | Music K-8 Tech Talk iPads are cool. iPads are fun. And iPads are amazing tools for personal entertainment and productivity. But are they worthwhile tools for you to use in your classroom? As one who has worked with an iPad since their first week of release and who had high expectations, I will hope to give you a balanced look at the iPad and its potential for the future. - The iPad is at its best when consuming media. Pictures, videos, and the other media around you look GREAT on the iPad. Books and magazines take on a whole different life, and if they have been enhanced for the iPad, they are even better. – For those of you new to iPads, iPhones and other iThings, an “app” is an application that lets the iPad (and other devices) do a specific thing. I could list favorite apps for the rest of the story, but I will limit it to a few that teachers are talking about on the Mailing List: – Play the keyboard (FREE) – Play drum set or bongos (FREE) – Play the five different mallet keyboards ($1.99).

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