GarageBand

GarageBand is a cool app available on the iPad to make audio (mp3) files, and we used it to create our radio show about the Homo Erectus Hominids.

Garageband is simple to use. To begin, you open the app by tapping the icon on your homescreen. Once it opens you will be able to create a new “song,” which is what the projects are called on GarageBand. You can hit the picture of a microphone and a screen will pop up. There are a variety of instruments you can use, but we did not use them for our project. You can hit the sideways triangle and it will start recording what ever you are saying. If you hit the wrench, which is the setting bar, you can go to metronome and change the amount of time you get to do the recording. When you do the recording, hit loop and it will give you a choice of different pieces of music. You can add some cool music to the recording. After you do that, you have made your recording. We did Garage Band to help us record a radio show about one of the early Hominids. My group did the Homo Erectus Hominids for this project and it was really fun!