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Of course, a lot of the aesthetics would depends on the name of the event and the logo, but I thought it would help to create a chart detailing the necessary components

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Here is some mindmapping for our logo. Although it occurred to me that we'd have to come up with a name first really. That is something that the mind mapping might also be useful for.

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Everything looks good, Renee! I'll post my own plans shortly. It's true that we'd need a lot more hands if this was going to be a real event! I was thinking, perhaps the activity sheets can be inserted into each children's book as tear-outs?

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I've had a look at the Application for public place permit and the Todd Mall Activity permit and the Application for Sponsorship and were this all real rather than hypothetical, we would need a heap more people to organise it. I'm glad that we're only meant to do things that pertain to our discipline and I'm really glad that I'm not studying to be a PA, because those are some really involved forms. Whoa

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Sample list of music teachers and schools in Alice Springs

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This is the sample page of the children's book I would produce for children to take home as a keep-sake and an inspiration to keep connecting with music and the different cultures in the community. On the opposite page for each band/musician I would include a simple picture of the instrument the musician plays.

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I assume this is what the unit outline means by attaching plans to our Padlet page.

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Both look pretty good, Renee

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The AS Town Council also has a great Facebook page. I can't remember who said they were going to manage the social media side of things. This would great place to start.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/AliceSpringsTownCouncil/events/?ref=page_internal

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The Alice Springs Town Council website has several links that would be helpful to planning this project. Starting with the "Events Calendar," and then "Submit a Calendar Event." The following link would be most helpful to us I think.
http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/events/event-planning-information
It would be a fantastic resource for ANYONE planning a public event. It has links at the bottom to various applications that we would need to apply for: Banner Display Application, Civic Centre Lawns and Todd Mall Activity Permit, to name just a few.

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http://www.eventmanagerblog.com/event-wayfinding-best-practice

Here is an article about wayfinding, a concept I discovered while researching signange. Definitely something to consider, perhaps for Jane, as she is familiar with the locations?

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Hi everyone, I found a website which includes the kind of information that would be good to have on our own website -  a link to download a program was somehting I didn't initially think of, as well as links to tickets (or registration, which ever we chose). It has links to exhibitors, which for us would be the musicians.
http://tascraftfair.com.au/

I did however find the design a bit adult and boring, so looked for some examples of playful website layouts:

http://www.image-festival.com/

I noticed the above website had links to volunteer and job positions, this is something that would be also good to consider, staffing for the event!

http://www.kidscampcalifornia.com/
This is work I would probably not be trying to emulate - blocks of text, lack of cohesion.
http://www.riverwayranchcamp.com/

This website looks like a lot more fun! I think with website design for this particular event, it would be useful to have lots of images

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The activity pages look fun Rowena and the printing company looks fantastic. I'm a parent and that would grab my attention.

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What a fantastic website Rowena, I'll have to remember that one. I love 33 and 27 is very bright too.

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I think this is an example of some information that could be made into handout form: https://themusicschool.wikispaces.com/Grade+2+-+other+content+-+Instruments+of+the+Orchestra+-+the+parts+of+the+instruments

The challenge would be designing a handout which is visually good for the targeted age level. Here's an example of something that might work: http://thebirdfeednyc.com/2013/04/08/music-activity-sheets-parts-of-the-violin-and-bow/

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https://designschool.canva.com/blog/100-color-combinations/

I also found some good colour palettes on this websites. In particular I was looking for bright palettes with different colours, as I think those would work well as a visual cue to indicate that this is an event directed at Primary school age children.  In particular I thought the palettes 10, 31,33, 84, 95, and 98 could work really well.

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Here are two companies which could be used to print our promotional posters and brochures as well as signage: http://www.colemanprint.com.au/products/

http://asprint.com.au/what-we-do.html

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I think that's a great idea, Renee

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Does anyone mind if I take on Leigh's suggestions from last week: a letter of approval to the council and a letter to potential sponsors? I was also thinking a letter to the musicians/bands Jane has suggested asking them to be part of the event would be helpful.

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Thanks for the summary Leigh.

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There's a couple of questions in the study notes for this week that I thought might get discussions rolling. Clearly we all understand the benefits music can have on children (Leigh explained this really well in her ppt), what would the value & impact of our project be to/on the community? I imagine it would bring together people of different cultures and backgrounds to learn and enjoy our differences. I'm thinking that in the answers to this question we might find our "rationale."

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Yes, I agree Renee, it's a little confusing, for me I'm doing the research and posting what I have up here publicly. It seems that we're discussed more on the communication than any results.

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Thanks Rowena. I have done a little research and discovered that there is a music school in AS. (Oh dear sorry my post got interrupted yesterday by life outside of study - family drama) The Northern Territory Music School has a campus in AS, they offer instrumental and vocal programs throughout the year. There are numerous instrumental teachers ranging from piano to cello. Do I need to provide this list for Leigh or is it all just hypothetical? This is the part that has me confused.

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Hi Renee,
Leigh has posted the following summary on the CAP board :

This is our groups idea for the CAP:

Target group: children under 5 years (still deciding on the town)

The arts: music morning tea (we can do a musical scavenger hunt, a dance, singing, showing parents how to make instruments and let children make something (e.g. rice in milk container), have real instruments for children to try (e.g. students from local music school?)

Cause: introducing children and their parents to the benefits of music

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Great idea Renee to have contact details for parents who wish to contact music teachers

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Great idea Renee to have contact details for parents who wish to contact music teachers

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Nice idea Renee, sounds good :)

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Re: my discipline, I had an idea this morning that I could research and contact musicians that grew up or live in Alice Springs and collate their thoughts on how music has affected their lives. I would ask that they write it for a Junior Primary audience. Maybe these quotes could be added to signage, handouts or advertisements

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Just checking, is our cause to encourage children's engagement with instruments/music or to promote music from other cultures, or is the first option and we're using music from other cultures to promote this? Thoughts, clarification please.

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Alice Springs is a great location Jane. You've clearly put a lot of thought into this. Leigh I love the idea of music as therapeutic and educational. On the subject of education I was thinking it would be good to have a list of music teachers that could be added to Leigh's therapy/education pamphlet. If our "cause" is to encourage children's engagement with music and show the benefits of such engagement, hopefully the outcome would be that children and parents would want to explore options of doing this more regularly so lets provide them with the option of various instruments to learn. I'm happy to do the research for this.

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Wow. Jane and Leigh fantastic ideas both of you.

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Sounds good to me, Jane. I can perhaps work on signage, perhaps storyboard an advertisement for television, and design handouts for each location.

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Sounds fine to me, Leigh.

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In response to Renee's question regarding town choice, I suggest Alice Springs? Its  in the heart of Australia and alot of information is available on the internet. It has been my home town for 5 years and if you need extra information I am able to assist.  There is a library in the town centre we can use as one of the music stations. Second music station is "The Residency" which was the governors residence in 1920's. Third  music station could be on Todd Mall which is the main strip in town and there is a spot in the middle that is used for Sunday markets and entertainment. Fourth music station could be on the edge of the Todd River this could be used as a station where indigenous instruments as the Didgeridoo be used and a local indigenous representative teach and give us knowledge on the first nations people. The final station could be the council lawns which could be the venue for a grand finale. These stations are all within walking distance and not very far for small legs and the age group we are aiming for. The town has a good representative of other cultural groups. There is an American population with the US base stationed here. There is a vibrant African group with drums etc. There is an Indian cultural group in existence that we could use with the sitar. The Indigenous group could be used in the first station. We could use a Australian style country band for the final station. Once we get to the end all the groups could combine the instruments and play "Waltzing Matilda" tune. What are your thoughts?

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In response to Renee's question regarding town choice, I suggest Alice Springs? Its  in the heart of Australia and alot of information is available on the internet. It has been my home town for 5 years and if you need extra information I am able to assist.  There is a library in the town centre we can use as one of the music stations. Second music station is "The Residency" which was the governors residence in 1920's. Third  music station could be on Todd Mall which is the main strip in town and there is a spot in the middle that is used for Sunday markets and entertainment. Fourth music station could be on the edge of the Todd River this could be used as a station where indigenous instruments as the Didgeridoo be used and a local indigenous representative teach and give us knowledge on the first nations people. The final station could be the council lawns which could be the venue for a grand finale. These stations are all within walking distance and not very far for small legs and the age group we are aiming for. The town has a good representative of other cultural groups. There is an American population with the US base stationed here. There is a vibrant African group with drums etc. There is an Indian cultural group in existence that we could use with the sitar. The Indigenous group could be used in the first station. We could use a Australian style country band for the final station. Once we get to the end all the groups could combine the instruments and play "Waltzing Matilda" tune. What are your thoughts?

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In response to Renee's question regarding town choice, I suggest Alice Springs? Its  in the heart of Australia and alot of information is available on the internet. It has been my home town for 5 years and if you need extra information I am able to assist.

There is a library in the town centre we can use as one of the music stations.

Second music station is "The Residency" which was the governors residence in 1920's.

Third  music station could be on Todd Mall which is the main strip in town and there is a spot in the middle that is used for Sunday markets and entertainment.

Fourth music station could be on the edge of the Todd River this could be used as a station where indigenous instruments as the Didgeridoo be used and a local indigenous representative teach and give us knowledge on the first nations people.

The final station could be the council lawns which could be the venue for a grand finale.

These stations are all within walking distance and not very far for small legs and the age group we are aiming for.

The town has a good representative of other cultural groups.

There is an American population with the US base stationed here.

There is a vibrant African group with drums etc.

There is an Indian cultural group in existence that we could use with the sitar.

The Indigenous group could be used in the first station.

We could use a Australian style country band for the final station.

Once we get to the end all the groups could combine the instruments and play
"Waltzing Matilda" tune.

What are your thoughts?

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Hi Girls,

In response to Renee's question regarding our town choice. I suggest Alice Springs?. Its a town in the heart of Australia and has been my hometown for the past 5 years. If you require any information there is alot on the internet or just ask me and I'll see if I can help.

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Sorry just trying to get my head around the big picture (please change etc):

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Sorry just trying to get my head around the big picture (please change etc):

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- Musical morning tea (e.g. 9:30-11am)
- Venue - a community park
- Activities - scavenger hunt, instruments to play, 15min trial music session, music/instruments from different cultural groups, make an instrument (from everyday materials)
- Promotion - social media, posters, article in newspaper
- Sponsors - proposal for funding for supplies, materials and food (e.g. local businesses, Council etc)
- Approval - letter to the Council for approval to hold event in the park

I think we need to pick a town to hold the event - any ideas?

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or I could run a session on the day incorporating music and movement before the morning tea?

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or I could run a session on the day incorporating music and movement before the morning tea?

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https://www.kindermusik.com/why-kindermusik/

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https://www.kindermusik.com/why-kindermusik/

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Ok, I am still trying to get my head around this assignment.

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Ok, I am still trying to get my head around this assignment.

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I am happy to work on something therapy/educational - such as a pamphlet
for parents to take home on how to incorporate music into everyday activities????

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Shall we start posting ideas here? I have sometime this week so can start researching a few concepts on music advantages/positives to accompany our project. Will keep checking our page daily. I put my hand up for social media promotion and a newsletter/feature to distribute to creche's/kindergartens with kids within our target age. 

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Shall we start posting ideas here? I have sometime this week so can start researching a few concepts on music advantages/positives to accompany our project. Will keep checking our page daily. I put my hand up for social media promotion and a newsletter/feature to distribute to creche's/kindergartens with kids within our target age. 

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Like Jane I've clicked on everything and still not really sure about anything other than how to post here. Such fun! ;-)

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Im clicking on everything and going round in circles but slowly finding one thing at a time. At least I know where to post.

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Still working out how this whole thing works. Thankfully it looks like it is pretty simple to add things to the interface.