Online Garage Band

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If you love Garage Band but you work at a school where budget cuts are much more likely than buying your class a mac lab full of the latest greatest software.

Then Myna is for you and me both! 

http://aviary.com/tools/myna

I have just started using it with my students this last week so I do not know all the ins and ours yet but so far I like it. It is a lot like Garageband on a Mac but not as advanced in many ways.  Though it does have a lot better choice of loops and is even linked with sound.com to get loops from. Or you can go to ccmixter.org and find loops that you can import in.

Right now with my class we are just learning how to work with and manipulate loops but soon we want to start learning to create our own content/loops.

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We go to the school computer lab and access it there. And the kids that really take off with it are even accessing the same site and all their work from home. Got to love cloud computing. The one issue we ran into at first was not all the school computers had Flash 10 installed on them. So once that was taken care of we were off.

Oh and remind the students to bring headphones if your lab does not offer them, you do not want all those sounds going off at once.

Have fun and let me know how it goes for you.

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