What a Week!

Wow!! What a great week! I saw so many people learning new skills and "being brave"!!! You all are a very special group and it was so fun to meet you. Don't let this end the learning process! You have acquired skills that are going to help make your students shine!! Keep it up!

Take a look at everyone's blog to see the process that we all went through~~

GarageBand: Follow-Up (MIDI and Radio Sounds)

I thought I’d start a blog posting on GarageBand as a follow-up to Tuesday afternoon’s session. Here are some items that need clarification:
1) Sandi asked about MIDI files in a podcast. At first, I understood the question as importing an existing MIDI file. Actually, this works via drag-and-drop. The MIDI files I was using were an old format. If importing a MIDI file is important, see me. It’s easy to drag-and-drop them.
2) Sandi’s real question was connecting a MIDI instrument to your Mac and record a song using a MIDI instrument and GarageBand. This also works. Use the Track Menu and select New Track > Software Instrument. Then, you’ll have a track for this task.
3) If you want to explore using a MIDI keyboard, I’ll bring mine to the conference.
4) I didn’t explain Radio Sounds. Atomic Learning has a great clip on this topic. Visit Atomic Learning and search for: Adding radio sounds to a podcast
4) A helpful site for GarageBand support is:
http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/
This page includes links to manuals and tips as well as a nice search box for your GarageBand questions.

If you have any more GarageBand questions, let me know!

Dick

MDMC Wiki

We have been building a Wiki to use throughout the week. Visit this Wiki for additional information on our conference topics, handouts, and web resources.

http://mdmc2007conference.wikispaces.com/

Welcome to the Milwaukee Digital Media Conference 2007!!

We are so glad that you have decided to join us for the conference. Throughout the week we will use this blog to share our thoughts on the various topics that we are learning.