Inspired by recent Burgeron stories Sally Lou makes a photo of an alien.
Met with Little Sally Lou this afternoon for her computer lessons. This week’s computer classes were all about audio, so we played with audio stuff as well as taking pictures using different effects with the Photobooth app on the iPhone. The alleged alien invasions (Anna Cow’s relatives, The Boos, Don) being discussed on our site may’ve influenced this one.
I had so much fun with Sally Lou, her dad & mom that I got home too late to make a proper blog post for the family. How many other Nana’s get to have fun like this with their great-great grandchildren?
The DS106 website has this great thing called the assignment bank where students can find and create their own assignments. I wanted to do something that we could post to the site. I looked around in the Audio Assignments section and didn’t find much that seemed like a six year old Sally Lou and I could do easily together. So I created my own. And I decided to toss my 3 year old great-great grandson DJ into the mix as well. It’s a mashup duet of the two of them singing the ABC song. I recorded DJ on Wednesday night, then Sally Lou sang her version this afternoon (Thursday). With a little help from Nana Lou & GarageBand 6.0.5 they’re now singing a duet.
The Making Of….
It helps all of us learn by sharing with the rest of the family how we created something. I’ve found I learn by both sharing my process with others and reading how others have completed their projects. So here’s what I did to create this delightful duet.
I recorded both children using the iTalk App on my iPhone. The original files were in an .aifc format which I could load into GarageBand but not easily onto this site for you to listen to. I used the iTunes feature of “create mp3 version” to put them into the format that I’ve post here. And since our free site doesn’t allow us to upload audio media files, I uploaded them to Rochelle Louridge’s Rockylou’s DS106 Blog site and linked to them that way.
Sally Lou sings her ABC’s
DJ sings his ABC’s
I tried a couple of different ways to assemble audio snippets: Having DJ simply repeat after Sally Lou; the two of them singing in unison, then a combination of the earlier two attempts. With my desire to keep it short and interesting to the listener I felt the final attempt with a mix of DJ “repeating” after Sally Lou and at other times singing in unison was my best effort. Here’s a screen shot of my GarageBand workspace.
I was very pleasantly surprised when their ending segments were almost in harmony. How lucky was that?
I have a few more audio tracks from this week that I plan on editing and posting later this weekend. Stay tuned!
The Burgeron Family 