Student Activities
Learning Experience 4 - Feeling Happy

Freewriting

Ponder on the prompt below. Freely write down what comes to mind.

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life…

Reading & Response

Click here to read this week’s blog.
Comment on the blog by leaving a reply on the webpage.

Applying Resources

Listen to the song “I feel happy in my heart”. In your opinion – does this song contain elements of happiness? Motivate your answer.

Creating

Songwriting

1. Compose a song for children that relates to happiness or being happy. Your song must have at least 2 verses and a chorus.
   
2. Notate the melody and lyrics.
   
3. Add Guitar chords.
   
4. Create or take a picture to beautify the sheet music and make it user-friendly.
   
5. Save the sheet music as a pdf file.
   
6. Add a Creative Commons license.                                        
   

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Performing
Record your song and submit your recording as an mp3.

Reflecting

Reflect on your experience of the fourth learning experience by writing a narrative based on the prompts below.

• Could you tell a story of a peak experience while being involved in songwriting?
  
• Could you tell a story of a challenging moment during this learning experience if there was such a moment?
  
• What in this learning experience (including freewriting, responding on the blog post, analysing an existing children’s song, writing your own song related to happiness and recording your song) did you find valuable? This can include skills, knowledge, experiences, insights etc.
  
• How do you think others might benefit from the work you put in for this assignment?
  
• Can you tell me a bit more about how you experienced the integration of technology while working on this assignment?