29 May 2009 2 Comments

Over 500 Ideas to Inspire!

Over 500 Ideas to Inspire!

Ideas to Inspire now has over 500 ideas! The site originally started as somewhere to host my ‘Ideas to Inspire Writing‘ presentation. Since then, Tom Barrett, Doug Belshaw, Mark Clarkson, Joe Rowing, Tony Cassidy and Noel Jenkins have kindly allowed me to add their presentations to the site, which all receive hundreds of visitors each [...]

1 March 2009 2 Comments

Composing Movie Soundtracks with Garageband

Composing Movie Soundtracks with Garageband

Last year, I taught a series of Music lessons based on ‘Movie Soundtracks’. These lessons combined Literacy work (identifying narrative / themes of short films), Music (thinking about the musical elements and how these are used within the soundtracks), as well as the use of ICT to compose new soundtracks. Here are some of the [...]