School: McGill University Course: Media

Date: August 18, 2017 Cycle/Year: MATL

Duration: 60 minutes Location: Room 1041,
Sherbrooke 688
Learning By the end of todays presentation, students will have the opportunity to:
Opportunities 1. experiment recording technology and;
2. explore how to deconstruct a song and explain it to others;
3. work together to navigate and negotiate the challenges of
selecting an appropriate app for producing a song exploder.
Big Idea / Unit Using technology to communicate musical and lyrical ideas to others.
ESL C1: Discussion in pairs of a song and its meaning
Competencies C2: Reinvesting the text into a new form (song exploder)
C3: Creating an explanation text that will be recorded
Prof. Comp. / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
Teaching Skills
Student Skills Teamwork, reflection, comprehension, collaboration, ICT use.

Materials / Examples from Song Exploder podcast to model what the students will
Resources be doing (they can choose an artist they like)
Models of recording technologies and aps
Time Plan
Hook/Pre-Assessment
2:00-2:20 Introduce Song Exploder
Ask students what is going on in a song of their choice



2:21 - 2:30 Pair Formation
1. Students choose a song to explode in pairs
2. Determine roles
Students decide how to record their podcast

2:31 - 3:00 Learning Activity(ies) and/or Tasks
1. Students explode their song and share with the class

Post-Lesson
Reflection