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Transcript:

Something we encourage you to think about is the evidence of learning process - how you collect it, how you share it and how you celebrate it. It's so much more than walking around the room and saying “how are you going kids?” Instead, at the end we get everyone to share their work with each other and give feedback. This is largely based upon the aforementioned drafting process outlined so eloquently by Ron Berger in ‘Ethic of excellence’.

So we have a few tutorials on publishing your song and saving it to google drive just depending on what you might want or need. So something that's really beautiful is coming together as a class and just sharing each other's work and we often did it in small groups of seven students. We had different stations that the students rotated around and one of those was a teacher check-in where we would sit around as a little band of seven kids and listen to each other's hottest 101. We called it the base station and set it up so that they could share their screen or we opened it up in google drive. We aimed to make it a nice visual experience too so if you click the plus you can go to all sections and that shows the whole composition. One of the big things that we tried to do is convince our students to use the mute button rather than the delete button so they can say “oh i don't like that just at the moment but i'll mute it”. This then allows us to get into the picture and then you can have a conversation with the students and say well actually if you just tweak that a little bit it'll be great. We tried to reassure them as much as possible that they didn’t have to be afraid about making a mistake. Lots of kids are afraid of making a mistake and even more so adults!

Something else that we did was to duplicate and move sections around and then mute different instruments in different variations of the same sections. This is where you can start to bring in your verse chorus format and even eventually you could talk about a bridge and explain that this is how you can build out a song without always creating new material but just by adding and subtracting layers. We always talk about how Picasso famously said “Good artist copy, great artists steal”. So rather than making things up we go all right - “What's the structure of heat waves? Let's do exactly that” and so you can map out your song in the same structure.

Essentially lesson four is to have a listen to how Glass Animals put their sections together, and talk about what, why, and how do we know this is a new section. What have they added and subtracted? And by using a process of copying or duplicating we can build out a fully realised hot hit fairly quickly. This way the students can start to understand conceptually the typical differences in verse chorus format.

So let’s do just that, here is an opportunity to build out your song and then publish it to our upload link. We’ll publish your work anonymously on the very same Canvas course you’ve been accessing today to stand as an exemplar for you to use with your students and for future participants to benefit from too. See you on the other side.