Category Archives: Music
Animate to the Beat to win!
This year Kudlian Software, creators of the award winning I Can Animate, are supporting the DCFS’s Tune In – Year of Music by launching an exciting competition that challenges pupils to become animators and composers! Animate to the Beat invites … Continue reading
Georgia Wonder – Remix Competition
At TeachmeetBett09 Georgia Wonder performed their new song ‘Girl You Never Knew’ and announced their remix competition: On the 23rd February 2009 Georgia Wonder will launch their remix contest aimed at schools and colleges across the British Isles. Pupils and … Continue reading
Video on the cheap
Despite the obvious learning opportunities it offers, sometimes it’s difficult to justify buying a digital video camera for everybody. There are limitations to using a DV camera; usually you need to connect the camera to the computer to get the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, English, Enhancing the curriculum, History, Music
Tagged Art, busbi, Design and Technology, elearning, English, Enhancing the curriculum, flipcam, Geography, Hardware, History, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Maths/Numeracy, MFL, Music, PSHE & Citizenship, RE, video
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Free sound effects and music
I’ve become increasingly aware recently that people don’t know/ have forgotten about the rich source of ‘free’ music available from the National Education Network (via WMNet) at http://audio.lgfl.org.uk . You have to access this from a school computer – which is … Continue reading
The search for future music talent is on…
Origin8 launching today – is a nationwide challenge for solo artists and bands aged 14-18 to create a piece of original music inspired by art from London’s National Gallery. To enter – original music tracks need to be uploaded on to … Continue reading
Posted in Enhancing the curriculum, Music
Tagged Enhancing the curriculum, Key Stage 4, Music
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Free Garageband training
On 11th July Joe Moretti will be running a ‘Garageband‘ training session at STDC, the focus of the session will be music at KS2 & KS3. I saw Joe do a session in Newcastle earlier this year and was amazed … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, Music
Tagged apple, CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Music
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Rock IT 2007
The Rock IT 2007 website has just come online at: http://www.rockit2007.org.uk/ You can view this years finalist online to give you some inspiration for entering. Rock IT is a competition for school bands in the UK and Europe. When registration … Continue reading
Rock Idol 2006
You need to be in a band and to perform an original song not longer than 5 minutes in length. You will perform from your school to a panel of rock experts. The performance for the national finals will take … Continue reading