The iPad pilot at Mackie Academy in Aberdeenshire has been situated in the Expressive Arts faculty. The staff met to identify where the iPad and the apps they had access to would best suit their needs over the course of the academic year. This agreement led to the creation of a rota that would enable effective sharing of the devices across year groups.

We met with Barrie Drennan (music teacher) who explained to us how he and his colleagues had planned to use the iPads in their subject area.

The S1 classes were due to be involved in inter-disciplinary learning activities that were going to involve the use of movie making and audio recording. It was expected that learners would create sound effects and soundtracks in Garageband and import them into their movies.

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The S3 classes were going to look at the composition aspect of the new Music and Technology Qualification and look at creating loops from the existing bank of samples within Garageband. They would then move on to recording their own material, which could be  used with the samples already available on the device.

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