Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Songsmith: The Problem

You will need to brainstorm on a problem in the society that a Song production may address. Identify a client or clients that you will need to produce music for him/she/them.

Remember at the end of the day you need to solve a problem.

Download any free music production software and start working on it. You may want to download the Songsmith software produced by Microsoft and try out its features.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/download.html

Thursday, November 25, 2010

UNIT TITLE: The Songsmith

AOI: Community & Service

AK Focus: Ethics

Unit question: How has the use of music software impacted the music production?

In this unit we will examine the impact of using music software in music production.

Your task today is to research for different music production software and compare them in terms of
  • File Size
  • Limitations
  • merits of the software.
  • Whether is suitable for MAC or PC
  • Editting

Post all your finding in this blog.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Evaluate stage : Banking Data

The evaluate stage is due 24th Nov 2010. Always refer to the assessment rubric when responding to this task

You are expected to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification in an objective manner based on testing, and to evaluate its impact on life, society and/or the environment.

You are expected to explain how the product/solution could be improved as a result of these evaluations.

Students are expected to evaluate their own performance at each stage of the design cycle and to suggest ways in which their performance could be improved.

Please use the questions as a guide to your evaluate stage.

a) How did you perform in each stage of the design cycle? What were your strengths and what were your weakness? How did you address your weekness? How did the results of testing help you? (100 words minimum)


b) What are some of the improvements that you would make to your product following the feedback from testing?

c) what were the views of the client? and How did or will the database impact on your client? What were the strengths and weakness of using the database as stated by your client? (70 words minimum)

d)Which stage of the design cycle did you perform well and which stage did you perform poorly and what were your reasons? How did solve those weakness as a student? (70 words Minimum)

e) Reflect on one the area of interaction: How does the database created relate to the Area of interaction? What are the strengths and weakness of using database in the stated area of interaction? (60 words Minimum)