Mark Pentleton » garageband http://www.markpentleton.com A place for my music, my photos, my thoughts and my ideas Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Throughout 2010, Mark is going to try to record one song per day and post them to his website at markpentleton.com. All songs are live improvisations. Feel free to suggest a song! Mark Pentleton no Mark Pentleton markpentleton@me.com markpentleton@me.com (Mark Pentleton) Performance Copyright Mark Pentleton A daily song performed by pianist Mark Pentleton music, piano, mark pentleton, pentleton Mark Pentleton » garageband http://www.markpentleton.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.markpentleton.com Learning Zulu through song and GarageBand – ATI 2010 http://www.markpentleton.com/2010/04/26/learning-zulu-through-song-ati-2010/ http://www.markpentleton.com/2010/04/26/learning-zulu-through-song-ati-2010/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:46:56 +0000 admin http://www.markpentleton.com/?p=622 It’s a couple of weeks since I was in Cheltenham with enthusiastic teachers from up and down the country at the Apple Teacher Institute. As one of the ADEs I was leading workshops on podcasting and using iPod Touches (and iPads!) in the classroom, but one of my first duties at the conference was to do a keynote at 8:30 on the morning of the first full day of the conference. I had planned to do a session on my Mandarin Chinese Animation projects but having spent much of the journey down to Cheltenham listening to the Invictus soundtrack, full of wonderful South African rhythms and voices, I decided to do something different at the last minute.

I believe that GarageBand, part of the iLife suite of applications, is extremely useful in classrooms as a tool for providing rhythm to help learners repeat words, phrases, equations, formulae, etc. and I demonstrated this to the assembled delegates by teaching them some Zulu. Having visited South Africa for the first time last month I picked up a few phrases (which may find themselves included in a future podcast series…) in Zulu and I decided that I’d begin by teaching the word sanibonani, which is how you say “hello” to a group of people. I wanted to get in one of the lovely click sounds of Zulu, so I also taught the phrase ngisaqala ukufunda isiZulu – “I’m learning Zulu”.

The Voices and World Music jam packs for GarageBand provide some fantastic African sounds, so I prepared a backing track using some loops and a simple melody based on the two phrases. I then got everyone repeating the sounds, using the African rhythms as a background. We split up the audience, giving one half the tricky ngisaqala, the other half ukufunda, and then everyone said isiZulu together. Finally, I recorded them a couple of times chanting these phrases before putting everything together in GarageBand.

I only had 15 minutes for the entire Keynote, so I didn’t have time to put the final piece together there and then, but the idea was that the recording could then be shared among the learners, further consolidating their learning as they listened on their own iPods etc. To be honest I’d forgotten about the whole project as the rest of the ATI took over, but I remembered about the GarageBand file this morning so I’ve put together a performance using the backing track and the recordings made at ATI and you can have a listen here and let me know what you think!

Ngiyabonga (thanks) to everyone at ATI, and I hope you like it.

]]> http://www.markpentleton.com/2010/04/26/learning-zulu-through-song-ati-2010/feed/ 3 ade,apple distinguished educators,ATI,garageband,languages,zulu It's a couple of weeks since I was in Cheltenham with enthusiastic teachers from up and down the country at the Apple Teacher Institute. As one of the ADEs I was leading workshops on podcasting and using iPod Touches (and iPads!) in the classroom, It's a couple of weeks since I was in Cheltenham with enthusiastic teachers from up and down the country at the Apple Teacher Institute. As one of the ADEs I was leading workshops on podcasting and using iPod Touches (and iPads!) in the classroom, but one of my first duties at the conference was to do a keynote at 8:30 on the morning of the first full day of the conference. I had planned to do a session on my Mandarin Chinese Animation projects (http://www.radiolinguaschools.com/2009/08/mandarin-animation/) but having spent much of the journey down to Cheltenham listening to the Invictus soundtrack, full of wonderful South African rhythms and voices, I decided to do something different at the last minute. I believe that GarageBand, part of the iLife suite of applications, is extremely useful in classrooms as a tool for providing rhythm to help learners repeat words, phrases, equations, formulae, etc. and I demonstrated this to the assembled delegates by teaching them some Zulu. Having visited South Africa for the first time last month I picked up a few phrases (which may find themselves included in a future podcast series...) in Zulu and I decided that I'd begin by teaching the word sanibonani, which is how you say "hello" to a group of people. I wanted to get in one of the lovely click sounds of Zulu, so I also taught the phrase ngisaqala ukufunda isiZulu - "I'm learning Zulu". The Voices and World Music jam packs for GarageBand provide some fantastic African sounds, so I prepared a backing track using some loops and a simple melody based on the two phrases. I then got everyone repeating the sounds, using the African rhythms as a background. We split up the audience, giving one half the tricky ngisaqala, the other half ukufunda, and then everyone said isiZulu together. Finally, I recorded them a couple of times chanting these phrases before putting everything together in GarageBand. I only had 15 minutes for the entire Keynote, so I didn't have time to put the final piece together there and then, but the idea was that the recording could then be shared among the learners, further consolidating their learning as they listened on their own iPods etc. To be honest I'd forgotten about the whole project as the rest of the ATI took over, but I remembered about the GarageBand file this morning so I've put together a performance using the backing track and the recordings made at ATI and you can have a listen here and let me know what you think! Ngiyabonga (thanks) to everyone at ATI, and I hope you like it. Mark Pentleton no 1:35 BETT Presentation – Creating Revision Podcasts with Keynote and GarageBand http://www.markpentleton.com/2010/01/13/bett-presentation-creating-revision-podcasts-with-keynote-and-garageband/ http://www.markpentleton.com/2010/01/13/bett-presentation-creating-revision-podcasts-with-keynote-and-garageband/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:31:45 +0000 admin http://www.markpentleton.com/?p=123 I’m doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Reseller stand at BETT 2010. It’s for teachers who want to create content and upload it to their VLE to allow learners to learn on their mobile devices.

]]> http://www.markpentleton.com/2010/01/13/bett-presentation-creating-revision-podcasts-with-keynote-and-garageband/feed/ 0 education,enhanced podcasts,garageband,iLife,keynote,make a podcast,revision,using iLife in the classroom I'm doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Reseller stand at BETT 2010. It's for teachers who want to create content and upload it to their VLE to allow learners to learn on their mobile devices. I'm doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Reseller stand at BETT 2010. It's for teachers who want to create content and upload it to their VLE to allow learners to learn on their mobile devices. Mark Pentleton no 7:28