This Final Song Project was a challenge for the students and for myself. The students worked hard learning all the multimedia involved in creating and embedding it into their blog. We used Garage Band, imovie, Jing, Scribd, Power Point and more to create our projects and Teacher Tube, You Tube, Scribd, Jing and Podomatic to save our files, capture the embedded code and finally put it up on our blogs.
1. Kai: Simply wants to surf and forget about school,"I just want to surf"
http://kingoglia11.blogspot.com/
2. Tim: Being white and experiencing racism in Hawaii, hip hop "Racism"
http://timrallday28.blogspot.com/
3. Sara: Memories of grandma and her love, "My Love", ballad (class very emotional)
http://keifoshosmalls.blogspot.com/
4. Duke: Making the right choices, saying no to "ice""Confusion in Life", rap (great theme)
http://dukejah.blogspot.com/
5. Analia: Etheral ponderings of life,original art, "Relics of Salvation", spiritual
http://analiaschoolblog2.blogspot.com/
* In each of these examples, each student expressed a topic or theme that was very close to each of them. Tim is tired of being harassed for his whiteness,Sara longs for her dead grandma, Duke wants to take the right path and say no to drugs and Analia, still shell shocked after her father's death, shows signs of wanting to be in a better place.And,finally Kai just simply wants to surf.
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The first song by Kai, "I just want to surf" is created by a "C" student. His work is late, rushed and labored through. In this case,he is expressing himself through his song, writing and expressing his emotions and feeling proud of his efforts. My guess that he is showing off his song to his friends and is proud of his efforts at writing, singing and using multimedia to convey how he feels. The other students are above average students who express themselves more creatively with the addition of mulitmedia.
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