<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've done that a couple of times but for a shorter, more concentrated period, 5 hours/ day for a week.<div>I also have 15 years of experience in teaching so I might have some advices…</div><div><br></div><div>The kids that I did this with were from grades 7-9 so they were more mature regarding learning ability, abstract thinking and coordination, and most of them also had a strong music interest.</div><div><br></div><div>We started with some basic music theory, regarding structure, instrument roles and stuff like that by discussions and by disassembling some tracks. Then we went on to learning and understanding the basics of recording (in Cubase).</div><div><br></div><div>When they had enough basic skills they worked together in making a track. One year the whole group worked together, another year they formed 3 subgroups, making separate songs.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding teaching in general, try to be overly clear, don't give to long instructions, divide them into smaller parts, make sure you have *everybodys* attention when giving instructions/lecturing. If they are sitting in front of computers, make sure it isn't stealing their attention when you're lecturing.</div><div><br></div><div>Try to make them help each other, otherwise you'll be running around like crazy in the classroom, and that hour will be over way too soon.</div><div><br></div><div>/Micke</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 5 jan 2012, at 07:02, deeplfo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I may have mentioned this in a previous post, but I am slated to teach a kids after school program class on "making music with your computer". Since schools are chuck full of Macs, I am going to base the class around GarageBand. Kids will be from grades 3 to 6, one hour a week, for about 9 weeks. I have some good ideas for the class material. Basically I want the kids to be able to get a nice little introduction to music technology, with some tangible end results, notably creating and sharing some music.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As you lot are a good wise bunch here, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone has ever done anything like this, to get some tips and pointers. Or chime in if you have any thoughts or suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Mohsen<br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>music-bar mailing list<br><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br>http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>