Thursday, March 31, 2016

Mixcraft - Day 4

Today was the last day of Mixcraft!  For your listening pleasure please enjoy these amazing tunes!
 

Mixcraft Jr. - Day 4

Today was the last day of Mixcraft Jr.! Please enjoy these amazing tunes for your listening pleasure!
 

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Mixcraft Jr - Day 3!

We are definitely getting closer to some finished products! We actually already have some finished products and they are sounding like some future Grammy winners!

 We played around a bit more with virtual instruments and learned how to properly end a song.




Mixcraft - Day 3

Today we continued our auditory pursuit of perfection.  Actually, Magnus was the only one who showed up today so he was able to rock out like the virtuouso he is.

Can't wait to hear what he's working on!

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Mixcraft JR - Day 2!

We are learning about all the key elements in all the songs we hear on the radio. Drums, bass, lead. All that funky stuff.

We also learned how to make our very own beats using the Virtual Instrument track!

Songs are sounding pretty awesome!

Mixcraft - Day 2!

Things are sounding awesome! We are experimenting with some pretty cool beats and the songs are really coming along.

Only two days left to finish our masterpieces!

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Mixcraft Jr. - Day 1!

Today was the introduction to our music making classes!

 We went over the basics of Mixcraft, the software we will be using, and how to use the huge library of samples to mold together a song. We hope to have a completely finished song by the end of our session and we can't wait for the results!

Mixcraft - Day 1!

Today was the introduction to our music making classes!

 We went over the basics of Mixcraft, the software we will be using. We hope to have a completely finished song by the end of our session and we can't wait for the results!

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Negative Space Art - Day 2!

Today was our final day in our new Negative Space Art class and everyone had a blast! We all enjoyed releasing our inner artist and painting over our vinyls. The finished produces looked awesome!





Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Negative Space Art - Day 1!

Today was day one of our two part Negative Space Art class! The kids learned the basics of what this type of craft is and we got some pretty cool designs coming along. Everyone picked out designs to send to our vinyl cutter. Now it is time to get crafty! We are taking out the paintbrushes for next class and we all are going to have our own home made Picasso!


Friday, March 11, 2016

Teen Tech Week- Vinyl Cling!

Today is the last day in our Teen Tech Week and we're ending it by making our own vinyl cling stickers! The students had the liberty to choose whatever they want and use Silhouette Studio to cut it out with the Silhouette Cameo. The results turned out to be pretty good!

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Teen Tech Week - Kahoot! Trivia

Today we had a bunch of fun playing trivia! The using the Kahoot.it platform we were able to sync up, answer questions and earn points!  Technology is awesome!


Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Teen Tech Week 2016 - Hour of Code

As part of our week long celebration of Teen Tech Week today we hosted an "Hour of Code"!


Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Teen Tech Week 2016 - Google Smarty Pins

For the second day of Teen Tech Week we played the trivia/geography game Google Smarty Pins.

Armando ended up with the high score!

Monday, March 7, 2016

Teen Tech Week - Makey Makey

Today was day 1 of PNG @ Elmwood Park Public Library's celebration of Teen Tech Week.  We'll be having a different class every day of the week and today we started things off with Makey Makey!

These little devices hook into a computer like a keyboard and allow you to use any capacitive touch object as an input device!