<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 24, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Lee, Yvonne via alice-teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 14pt;" class="">Thanks, I will let you know how this works.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Today I showed them how to translate Treble note to </div><div class=""> alpha. and corresponding birds.</div><div class="">and show them how to change the timing.</div><div class="">and document the plot of sequence order they</div><div class="">must get the birds to sing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">please explain how to get 2 or 3 note/birds to sing simultaneously - a chord.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Brush Script MT" class=""><font color="#0000ff" size="5" class="">Yvonne Lee,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Calisto MT" class="">Hon. B.A., OCT</font></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;" class=""><font face="Adobe Fangsong Std R" class="">Thistletown C.I.</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;" class=""><font face="Adobe Fangsong Std R" class="">Toronto District School Board</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Adobe Fangsong Std R" class="">40 Fordwich Crescent</font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Adobe Fangsong Std R" class="">Toronto Ontario</font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class="">M9W 2T4</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class="">Phone 416 394 7710</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class="">Fax 416-394 7726</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Calisto MT" class=""></font> </div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Calisto MT" class=""></font> </div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#008000" size="2" face="Arial Narrow" class=""><strong class="">Why Wait, Just Do It.</strong></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" class=""><div id="divRpF965554" style="direction: ltr;" class=""><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>alice-teachers [<a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+yvonne.lee=tdsb.on.ca@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers-bounces+yvonne.lee=tdsb.on.ca@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>] on behalf of Donald Slater via alice-teachers [<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>]<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, March 24, 2016 2:39 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alice Teachers<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: alice-teacher one octave song - birds<br class=""></font><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Yvonne,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>If I understand your question correctly, you might try this.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Work your way through the tutorial, and at the end of the tutorial, exit the tutorial, and then save the world. This will save the tutorial world for you to experiment with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Alice, take a look at the sing scale() method.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will see this has each of the penguins execute their sinNote method in order.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Each penguin knows how to sing a particular note, and each note will be sung in approximately 1 second.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You should be able to create another method that will allow you to order your penguins into the melody line of the new sing that you want them to perform. This will give you the melody of your song, but not the correct rhythm.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The use of the doTogether in the singSong method is really confusing, and I would not attempt to duplicate it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Instead, I would introduce the students to parameters, and for the singNote method of each penguin, I would create a parameter, called “beat”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In each singNote method, there is a call to the playSound method (which plays the sound file recording of the note the penguin is singing). Set the duration of this playSound method to the beat parameter. (See the attached screen shot, which shows the redPenguin singNote method.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This will now allow each penguin sing a whole note (i second), a half note (.5 seconds), a quarter note (.25 seconds), and an eighth note (.125 seconds). Modify your newSong method, add ing the appropriate parameter values to create the approximate rhythm of your song.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You might also notice that I modified the howFast variable (which controls the animation of the penguin), so that it’s value is ⅛ the value of the beat parameter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions or need more explanation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class=""><span id="cid:B6DA7510-C6C8-4293-836F-83186016DCC5@wv.cc.cmu.edu"><beatParameter.png></span></div><div class=""><div class="">Don Slater<br class=""><br class="">Alice Project<br class="">Carnegie Mellon University<br class="">Entertainment Technology Center<br class="">700 Technology Drive<br class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15219<br class=""><br class="">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dslater@cmu.edu" class="" target="_blank">dslater@cmu.edu</a><br class=""><br class="">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br class="">--- Henry David Thoreau<br class=""><br class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 24, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Lee, Yvonne via alice-teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="" target="_blank">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi , <br class=""><br class="">I have difficulty showing the students how to program a different "one octave song" that<br class="">is different than the theme song to the Flintstones.<br class=""><br class="">specifically - changing the sequence, order, and the timing of the birds singing.<br class=""><br class="">I have reviewed the tutorial several times and the text book too.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">my students and I were able to search the internet for many famous<br class="">one octave songs, determined the sequence, and the timing.<br class="">yet find there is very little instruction... in the text<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">chapter one and the Appendix - to change the sequence, order and the timing of the birds singing.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Please advise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Yvonne Lee, Hon. 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