Media+Music

= media type="file" key="133_0694.MOV"Media Music = We have a daily musical genre of the day and/or a musician of the day. When you walk in the classroom listen to the song and in your media music notebook write down: the genre, any instruments you hear, and if someone is singing name the singer.

Personal Connection Song Your first assignment will be to identify a personal connection song. A song that evokes a memory for you. For example one of my personal connection songs is the Eye of the Tiger, "Survivor", one of the Rocky theme songs. When I hear this song it brings up the memory of college TV production class when I used the song for a TV Commercial for rugby jerseys. It also brings up the memory of me sprinting and running fast to this song (I used it as one of my workout songs). So choose a song that connects you to one of your memories in your life!!

In class you will create your 308@gmail.com (with your first initial and last name) stayed logged in and google google docs. Then create a new document, call it research. Then head to the portaportal for the media music links to research the song you selected that you have a memory attached to it. Find out the message the songwriter was sending when they wrote it and what other people think about it. Once you have created the research page - "Share" it to jfash308@gmail.com

Media Music links: Songfacts for initial research. (find out general info and what other people think about your song. If you wish to review the musical genre of the day and explore other songs in that genre or wish to listen to other genres go to either : online listening library or dizzler.com . If you find other more useful resources to research your musician. please click edit on this page . Click on link. Choose external link and type in the URL

Here is what you should find out in your research and from your personal experiences: Read and analyze the lyrics for your song then create a paragraph/report that includes the following info: 1. The Name of the song and the artist singing it, and the genre. 2. Who wrote it. Is this a “covered” song for this musician meaning it is someone else’s song and they are singing it 3. What was the songwriter’s message or point of view when they wrote this song? 4. What message do you get from the song? 5. What is your personal connection (memory) with this song? 6. What do other people on songfacts think about this song. 7. After analyzing this song what have you learned about the song's message that you did not know before. 8. How would you like to present your point of view about your personal connection song. A skit? Do you sing? Play a musical instrument? You decide how you would like to share your personal connection song.

Check out this great site for creating your own "station": www.pandora.com

=Check out this music video created at a high school:=

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= Downloading music files = Check out this news story about a college student being fined for burning 30 music files: copying music files

the song is called i can wait forever by a band called simple plan. this song is very touching to me because it brings back memories about someone i use to like. and every time it plays it reminds me of her. i think that a lot of people liked this song and that maybe the guy liked a girl and thats why he wrote this song.