Welcome to Semester 2, 2010 at Leaside! If you've found your way here that's because you're a student in Ms. Simmons' AMM 3/4 classes.

Welcome to our class blog. This is where you will check in daily to see waht work will be assigned/completed in class, and what will be coming up. There will be links to assignment pages and other fun stuff too. This is a work in progress and a collaboration and hopefully we'll get some of your work up here soon too.

First up...what you should all be working on for your first few classes:

- completing the Theory Check-up

- completing the Student Info Form

- signing the Computer Use policy

- getting familiar with the Mac environment and with course expectations!

Year 1 Students:

- Practicing your first keyboard tasks!

- Getting started on MIDI Reading Assignment. Here are the links:

History of MIDI

Technology of MIDI

Making Music with MIDI

See the handout given in class for response actions. Happy reading :)

Year 2 Students:

- Reading the following website about Digital Right Management

- Writing a one-page, double spaced summary explaining why DRM might be relevant to Music and Computers students.

Cool Resource of the Day:

If you are new to the MAC environment, you will want to check these out:

Switch 101: Windows vs. Mac Navigation

On Windows I Used To...

Happy Mac Computing!

And for those ready to move on...

Check out the Following Youtube videos about using Finale softawre.