Music and creating melodies in RunRev

[Marty Billingsley]

> "Lewis, Judy" <Judy.Lewis at pomona.k12.ca.us> writes:
>
> I've been deleting in mass all the RR emails, but accidentally (?) opened
> yours. What a surprise! I've been using HyperCard for years, but only do a
> 3-week intro with my 7th graders and my 8th graders have 2-weeks to do a
> "How To" stack. We use Inspriation to organize thoughts and links. When they
> announced Mac OSX would not get HyperCard, I tried several alternatives and
> settled on RR. The one think I really miss is that the students can no
> longer script melody lines. My HyperCard unit has always featured encoding
> music and then trying to write a new melody!

Take a look at shakobox.  (http://www.hyperactivesw.com/shakobox.html)
It's a separate stack and application that allow you to play notes,
just as in the old HC.  All you have to do is to include in your stack
an openStack script that starts the stack using shakobox.  Documentation
on how to do that is included in the shakobox stack.

This is one of the RR examples I've been trying to find time to write up
for fellow teachers.  Maybe this summer......

Have fun!

  - marty

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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools