Calling all Musicians! December 17, 2008
Posted by anne marie in Music, SMART Board, Special Education, Websites.Tags: Music
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I was asked by a Special Education teacher if I knew of any websites that would incorporate computer mouse skills with music- she has a student who is very motivated and interested in “making music”. I remembered this site called Muxicall that I learned of this summer. It is a basic and very powerful flash tool designed to help teach music composition. You simply click on the various musical signs to hear that sound. When you click on play it will give you a choice of instruments- piano, strings or drums. It also is coupled with corresponding colors which is very cool! If you hold the shift key down, the mouse hovers and you can play the music continuously. It works great with the SMARTBoard since you simply touch the music signs to hear the sound.
So back to the original request– the student loved this activity! During his free time activity he is able to independently use the computer to compose all of the original tunes wants! It also has proven to be reinforcing for other students to address cause/effect objectives– especially when using the SMARTBoard. ENJOY!
**Quick directions to activate the hovering mouse when using the SMARTBoard (thanks to Jim Hollis for help with these directions). Go to your SMART tools in the task bar, select control panel, select SMART Hardware settings, make sure the pen and button option is selected and click on the picture of the mouse & keyboard. On the left side drop down menu select right click, on the right side drop down menu click floating mouse. So now the right click button on the tray launches the hovering mouse feature. To deactivate this feature simply touch the board and to reactivate it touch the right click button again. If you need to do a right click when in this mode you can still accomplish this by touching the SMARTBoard for 3-4 seconds.
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