 Welcome to the K-12 online conference for 2017. This is the creativity strand presented by international educators around the globe. I'm very excited to be bringing them, their classrooms and their students to you in this video. We will start by looking at each teacher along the journey in how they use creativity in their classrooms. I got interested in thinking about using Minecraft because some of the students are really into that game and they know a lot about it. To create something using another form of expression. I grabbed you, you have to like test things out and then experiment with different notes and see what works well to you. The timing for each block to play is controlled by repeaters, like self-suit and not be weird. A lot of the students coming from the elementary school have experience in using makey makey to get around them to create their own original work and so even though our class is an instrumental ensemble class, we want to continue this tradition of creating music using at these five different types of tracks and sounds. What we're doing is controlling the sound. The A's should be like the A's I'm going to sound like a lick but there's an evasion contrast all the time. In Minecraft, we talk about just choosing sound rather than choosing the track. There's like so many different notes so you have to find which notes work well with each other. It matters what the block is that will make the note block which you want it to sound like so you maybe use dirt plus the note block is like the main melody and the others are kind of like an add-on beat to it. The students, when I've been observing them, get really into like trying different sounds and trying to create something that's special. You may seem like it's like it was really short and it was like it took a lot of time for the slides. For me as an educator it actually has been quite unexpected to turn a VIVX because not only are they thinking of it as a project that they do at school but now they're thinking about oh I might go back and maybe I'll try something else or I'll improve on the piece that I've done for the class which is what we really want the kids to do. Step in this journey will give us a new insight from a different educator around the world. Here we have Allison, director of music at the International Grammar School of Sydney Australia. Hi, I'm Allison Armstrong and I'm here at Vientiane International School in Laos where I teach music to students completing the International Baccalaureate Diploma. I've been teaching here for three years and during that time I have used the digital audio workspace or DAW Ableton to familiarise my students with new ways to compose, mix, arrange, whatever you want to call it. I'd like to share with you two projects that use Ableton and Ableton Push. One of the projects uses MIDI and the other uses audio. Both use the session view screen to look at composition as chunks of ideas. My 15 year old students begin by writing a theme using MIDI in GarageBand. The rules I set are that it must be in A minor and only use whole half or quarter notes. It's a little difficult shifting the MIDI from GarageBand into Ableton but not impossible. They also learn about compositional devices such as sequence, imitation, augmentation, diminution, inversion, contrasting using staccato and legato, octaves, tempo and dynamics. In the next stage of the project they meet with a theatre student in the middle of acting or directing a scene by Shakespeare. They take notes about the kinds of music that the director or actor is looking for and they pay attention to the intended audience, the purpose of the scene and the music within it, the atmosphere of the scene, the main characters and their movement and how they need to fit their music around the dialogue. After modifying their theme and adding an accompaniment pattern or drone, the students send me their MIDI files and I import them into Ableton. They sit with me to ensure that the sounds I choose line up with what they have in their heads. Some students from around Southeast Asia were visiting the school and I knew we were going to have three days to learn some choral music. The creation of new music is important to me so I decided to create something from scratch for the event. My 12-year-old students had recently shared with me a list of songs that they love and one seemed perfect to arrange and that was DJ Antwon's Thank You. I was running out of time to put it together so I simply listened to the song with my headphones on and improvised harmony to flush out the song. I felt pretty pleased with myself at the end of it so I then combined the harmonies together in Ableton and I started to notate them. And then I thought, what are you doing? It's going to be much easier if you literally just hit play in Ableton and teach the kids the song that way. So that's what we did. The next video comes from Norway, presented by Elder who is a fellow Apple Distinguished Educator. His students have created an amazing soundscape, sound-to-picture installation. Jane Marie Tiles is a fellow Australian educator. In this video she asks students to question what is music. Music teacher Andrew Mipsord also from Australia has just received his Apple Distinguished Educator this year with his students he is presenting on film music. This year our URAID students are studying film music and to demonstrate their understanding of the topic we've asked them to create a film trailer. We try to create learning experiences that are real and authentic. We also find that it helps if the students enjoy what they're doing. So what you're going to do is you're going to work in small groups of about three or four. You're going to come up with a genre, a style of movie. You're going to try to tell the story of that movie by creating a trailer that goes for about a minute long. So you need to work on your iPads and you're going to create a storyboard that's got some of your key scenes that you're going to use for your trailer. We got the opportunity to be in a group of three and we all got to film an act which was really fun and we made the audio for the movie trailers on our iPads. At the end of the term we had a chance to show our film to the rest of the students and they also showed theirs so we could compare all of our different movies and ideas. Trisha is a visual arts teacher from the US. Her classroom defines creativity. Welcome to Dryden Elementary School located in the suburb of Chicago. I'm Trisha Fuglestad and our program is infused with technology and creativity. We are a one-to-one iPad art room where students can make art physically then explore concepts digitally. Our students are animating and using green screen effects to build their techniques and skills so that they can creatively tell their stories. We're finding that this blend of physical and digital art is expanding students' curriculum and giving them a chance to dynamically demonstrate their understanding. The students have found creative ways to bridge the arts through the use of technology where they can infuse dance and music and voice. My name is Lauren Handenberry and they say I'm a real handful. I can't quite put my finger on it, can you give me a hand? Oh yeah, I nailed it. I now get to introduce you to my wonderful colleague at Armadeo's Vienna, Miss Lydia Campanale. In a classroom where students are free to express their creativity connecting music with movement, literature, a classroom where music lessons are never only about music itself but experiences that are linked to real life where children discover what they can do, who they want to be in the future, a place where technology is able to turn classrooms into recording studios where technology helps them using their learning at different levels in different situations. It helps them reflecting. It helps them practice and improve their skills. This is the classroom I dreamed of and now it is a reality. Throughout each of these videos you will have seen good pedagogy, the instruction of vital skills. This then leads to creativity. The lessons should not stop but keep going then. Students soon learn that if the teacher shares content they do too when it promotes their own learning. One way to do this is with iBooks or iTunes U. I have some examples there at the QR codes. In my classroom I aim to be engaging and diverse in content but I always come back to what is good teaching with Orph or Kadai. Here's an example in South Korea. The progression of these lessons I want to share the learning of my students and of me as the teacher so I put them into an iTunes U course that you can access now. This video will show you. To add a course to iTunes U you need to go to the app then you tap on the plus button up in the top left hand corner and click enroll in a course. You then enter the enroll code and the course will be added to your library. I constantly want to encourage creativity in my classroom. One unit I teach is comparing the piano music of Eric Satie to the piano or electronic scores of the music in Minecraft. We compare Eric Satie's music and then we try and write our own. So let's find a recipe for creativity. One start with an idea or lesson and build from these. Two add that little bit extra that you think might be a bit out of your comfort zone. Then with number three this is where it becomes exciting. Before you know it the students themselves bring their ideas to each lesson and it becomes something you can share document and publish. Thank you K-12 online and for all of these people for presenting and their amazing videos. I would like to extend a great big thank you from Armadeus here in Vienna and I hope you enjoyed this video.