Last updated 3 March 2011 (refresh page for more random photos)
So where am I, what am I looking for...
« Stand By Me, March 2011 »
This is the KHS Music Department site! It's been running since September 2009 and clearly isn't finished yet (these things never are!), but some of what's here (starting with the S3–6 Course info) is important to some people and hopefully proving a great help to them. We're not going to be advertising it widely (we've just added links from our main school site and intranet), but nothing you can see is top secret and you're very welcome to look around. :-)
What's been here all the time?
« Sound Engineering, March 2011 »
Well, the site was originally launched mainly to get the S3–6 Course info online as an easily updatable and freely available replacement for our old yellow 'Course Book' (which some older pupils may still have). So the S1–2 Course info and Showcase sections were started at the same time to give an idea of what else we're doing, but currently both still require considerable development to bring them to the same level...
What's been added recently?
« Packing up the old school, June 2008 »
Some pages now (February 2011) include an automagically generated selection of photos to show the kinds of things we do (yes, really, so try refreshing the page to change them!)... so perhaps you'll be tempted to come back looking for new ones (see if you can spot yourself or your friends) as well as checking up on all those important musical concepts and deadlines?
The SQA Sound Engineering and Production concepts are now (August 2010) up on the S3–6 Technology page, with the MIDI Sequencing concepts and a new S1–2 Musical Words page added September 2010.
The new Discussion area (planned for some time) finally went live in May 2010 (just in time for S5/6 study leave!). Since it's intended mainly for pupils to ask the teacher questions or get informal feedback about their work, it's naturally a password-protected area with membership by application only and unavailable to the general public.
And what am I going to find here in future?
So how about all those hints, tips and reminders the teacher's always scribbling on bits of paper? You might guess that some of them are temporary enough to go almost straight to the recycling bin (eco-friendly, non-computer type), but some of the more important reminders and better ideas can go on here (maybe in the discussion area?) where we can find them again when we need them. And that's what this website is for. Things whole groups of people need to be able to find again. Not 'advertised' outside the school, but accessible anywhere, anytime. Although you might need a user account and password to see some of it!
