Dance Project 1 (Block 2)

Click here to listen to my audio file of Dance Project 1.

1. Describe how to do project in simple steps for someone who wasn't in class with you.
2. Write about what new things you learned how to do in this project.
3. Write about problems you encountered and what you had to do to solve your problems.
4. Write down any questions you still have after completing the project.

How to Link from Google Drive to Your Blog

How to link your Dance Project 1 audio file to your blog:

1. Make a New folder in your Google Drive called "Music Tech" by pressing the red "new" button in the upper left corner. 
2. Upload your 39 second .mp3 file from your iMac to Google Drive>Music Tech by again going the red "new" button and pressing "File Upload"
3. Click once on the file you just uploaded to select it.



Share

4. Click on the Share button and select "Anyone with the link can view." 
5. Copy the link (Mac: Cmd-C)
6. Go back to your blog.
7. Type a sentence such as "Click here to listen to my shortened version of Dance Project 1."
8. Select that sentence with your mouse and click on the "Link" button in the Blogger menu bar.

Blogger Menu Bar

9. Paste in the link that you copied from Google Drive.  Click "Test this link" to make sure it works. Then press "OK"

URL = Uniform Resource Locator.  Most people call it a web address or a link.

10.  Go back to your blogger article and click the orange "Publish" button to see a live version of your newly created link to your song.  Click on the link to make sure it works and that anyone can listen to your song.

Press the orange "Publish" button to make your article live on the internet.

Now start typing about what you did and learned in Dance Project 1.  What should you write about?

1. Describe how to do project in simple steps for someone who wasn't in class with you.
2. Write about what new things you learned how to do in this project.
3. Write about problems you encountered and what you had to do to solve your problems.
4. Write down any questions you still have after completing the project.

WAV vs. MP3 as Explained to a Fifth Grader

I made this presentation to explain the difference between WAV and MP3 files.  I tried to make it simple enough that a fifth grader could understand it. I hope you enjoy my presentation!

Audio File Formats

Today I taught my Music Tech students how to embed a Google Slide presentation into their blogs.  It's a pretty simple procedure:

1. Go to Google Slides and find your presentation.
2. Click on File>Publish to Web in Google Slides.
3. Click on "Embed" and copy the embed code.
4. Go to Blogger and 

Analog vs. Digital

May 2015 WLA Chapel Schedule

Week 38  (May 4th - May 8th)

Theme for Week: Christ’s love motivates us

Monday, May 4:
Preacher - Pastor Zahn
Scripture/ Theme - II Cor. 4:5-15 “We believe and therefore speak”
Hymn - Austin Wright CW 586 O Splendor of God's Glory Bright

Tuesday, May 5:
Preacher- Pastor Zahn
Scripture/Theme-Eph. 2:1-10  “We are God’s Workmanship”
Hymn - Brittany Kollmann CW 379 Amazing Grace

Wednesday, May 6:
Preacher- Mr. Liepert
Scripture/ Theme- BIBLE READING PER SCHEDULE
Hymn - 

Thursday, May 7
Preacher- Mr. Liepert
Scripture/ Theme- Heb. 10:19-25 “Spur one another on”
Hymn - Sam Ewert CW 213 Forever with the Lord

Friday, May 8
Preacher- Principal Herkstroeter, Faith, FDL
Scripture/ Theme- I Peter 5:8-11 “(Stand) firm in the faith”
Hymn - Kayla Holst CW 382 My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less

Week 39 (May 11th - May 15th)

Theme for Week: The Ascended Lord reigns over his church

Monday, May 11:
Preacher-  Pastor Haag
Scripture/ Theme- Luke 24:50-53 The Ascension Account
Hymns - Richie Thiesfeldt CW 171 A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
                 Irene Rizzolatti CW 173 On Christ's Ascension I Now Build

Tuesday, May 12:
Preacher-  Mr. Bendix
Scripture/ Theme- Eph 1:15-23  Christ is the head of the Church
Hymn - Erik Nygaard CW 564 There is a Balm in Gilead

Wednesday, May 13:
Preacher- Mr. Witte
Scripture/ Theme- BIBLE READING PER SCHEDULE
Hymn - Last Four School Years' Theme Songs

Thursday, May 14:
Preacher- Mr. Witte
Scripture/ Theme-    Psalm 110:1-7 Christ reigns at the father’s side
Hymn - CW 172 Up through Endless Ranks of Angels
 Psalm 110, setting by Hannah Clark

Friday, May 15:
Preacher- Principal Kip Wilson, Redeemer, FDL
Scripture/ Theme-    Phil. 3:17-21  “our citizenship is in heaven”
Hymn - Jordan Cooper CW 405 Oh, For a Faith That Will Not Shrink

Week 40  (May 18th - May 22nd )

Theme for Week: “We preach Christ Crucified”

Monday, May 18:
Preacher- Pastor Boggs
Scripture/ Theme-    I Cor. 1:4-9  Christ has been revealed
Hymn - Brian LaRonge CW 438 In God, My Faithful God

Tuesday, May 19:
Preacher- Pastor Boggs/Brady Dettmann
Scripture/ Theme-    I Cor. 1:18-21 “The power of God”
Hymn - Hali Walker CW 580 Every Morning Mercies New

Wednesday, May 20:
Preacher- Mr. Hoffmann
Scripture/ Theme- BIBLE READING PER SCHEDULE
Hymn - Faith Worship Ensemble

Thursday, May 21:
    Preacher- Mr. Hoffmann/Jordan Calkins
    Scripture/ Theme-    I Cor. 1:22-25  We preach Christ crucified
Hymn 1 - Hunter Woods CW 387 Drawn to the Cross
 Hymn 2 - Noah North CW 279 O Word of God Incarnate

Friday, May 22:
    Preacher- Pastor Jobs, St. John, Markesan, WI
    Scripture/ Theme-    I Cor. 1:26-31 “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord”
Hymn - Jed Zabel CW 371 O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High

Week 41 (May 25th - May 29th)

Theme for Week:    The Lord HAS BEEN with us this 90th Academy Year!

Monday, May 25: Memorial Day, No School

Tuesday, May 26:
    Preacher-  Pastor Babinec, Zum Kripplein Christi, Iron Ridge
    Scripture/ Theme-    Is 41:8-10 “Do not fear for I am with you”
Hymn - Tony Griep CW 213 Forever with the Lord

Wednesday, May 27:
    Preacher-  Mr. Thiesfeldt
  Scripture/ Theme- BIBLE READING PER SCHEDULE
Hymn - Zach Clinton CW 282 Lord, Open Now My Heart to Hear

Thursday, May 28:
    Preacher-  Mr. Strusz
Scripture/ Theme- Rom. 8:37-39 “We are more than conquerors”
Hymn - Samantha Freund CW 399 To God be the Glory

Friday, May 29:
    Preacher-  Principal Schroeder
Scripture/ Theme-  Phil. 1:3-11 “I thank God every time I remember you”
Hymn - Ryan Boelk CW 451 Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Embedding Audio and Video Files from Google Drive into Blogger

I cannot take credit for what I am about to write.  The credit goes to one of my students in Music Tech class, Ryan Boelk, for coming up with this method.  He figured it out on his own after Soundcloud tagged one of his music uploads as containing third-party material (read my article "It's Not Fair" for more information on this issue.)  I'm writing about it here because I haven't tried it yet even though I have encouraged my students to try this method.  It's like the scientists who said that they invented cold fusion but no other scientists were able to replicate their methods.  I'm not only trying to replicate Ryan's methods, but also understand and improve on them.

Ryan's method for using Google Drive as a host for embedding music or videos into Blogger is as follows:

1. Upload an audio or video file to your Google Drive.
2. Once it's uploaded to Google Drive, click the Share button.
3. Set sharing to "Public" for the widest audience.
4. Copy that public sharing link. (e.g. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Wtebd6y4ISeWZPMHdSellFclU/view?usp=sharing)
5. Paste that link into the HTML side of a new Blogger post.
6. Copy the "garbage" from the middle of the link (highlighted in green above)
7. Paste the "garbage into the green portion of this HTML code: 
8. Make sure it works by switching back to the Compose side and pressing the play button.

Ryan Boelk's HTML code for embedding an audio file from Google Drive :

<center><iframe height="100" src="https://docs.google.com/a/wlavikings.org/file/d/Place the "garbage" here/preview" width="300"></iframe></center>

My replication and modification of Ryan's Method for Audio and Video

This is the second audio file I tried to embed. The first one I tried, Jason Aldean's "Hicktown", showed an embedded audio player but it had no sound when the play button was pressed. I'm not sure why. My thought was that the MP3 file was nested a couple of folders deep on my Google Drive, so I went looking for an MP3 file on the root level of my drive. That one, my own arrangement for orchestra, chorus, and congregation for the 2002 WELS National Conference on Worship, Music, and the Arts from the of the hymn "The Tree of Life" worked.

So I started to play with the height and width parameters.  Ryan specified height = 100 and width = 300, but it seemed to give too much grey space for my liking above and below the audio transport controls and squished the transport so that play time and volume controls were on top of each other (as shown below), so I modified the numbers to height=60 and width = 450 (as shown above).  That also keeps the popout window button off of the transport controls.

I would love to be able to put a title or a caption on this embedded audio file, such as you can automatically do on a picture in Blogger. I'm doing some reading on HTML <caption> tags.  Hopefully, with a little experimentation, I'll figure it out. Now for video.  After uploading a Garageband edited commercial soundtrack to my Google drive, I followed the same steps as in 1-8 above to embed the video into this article from Google Drive.  To my joy, it worked the first time.  It makes me wonder if the video link button on the editing toolbar in Blogger wouldn't do the same thing.  So, I tried it.  The video button allowed me to upload a video from my computer straight to this article.  It's the second video below (and the original 1st generation iPod commercial on which this project was based). Video uploaded to Google Drive and embedded here using Ryan's method. Soundtrack music replaced with Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" Video uploaded straight to Blogger using the video button on the editing toolbar. Original 1st Generation iPod Commercial Video

Conclusion

In order to bypass copyright restrictions on Youtube or Soundcloud for education fair use applications, Google Drive can be used to host both audio and video files.  Embedding audio and video files from Google Drive is possible using an adaptation of an embed code from Google Docs.  The key to modifying the embed code is to paste a portion of the shared URL into an <iframe> HTML embed code as described above.  Audio files