Tech Lab

Kelvin Grove Computer Lab as of June 2005 = 6 Organs; 26 MIDI Piano/ Computer Student Stations + 1 Teacher Station	HEATH GRANT Computer December 2004
	Best Buy Computer #1 January 2005
	Best Buy Computer # 2 January 2005

Thank you to the following who donated organs to our music department: Thomas Organ (Organ on right)Donated by - Louis M. Baca Family Wurlitzer Organ (Organ on Left) Donated by - Mr. & Mrs. Dennis (Tracy) Roak, Kayla, Dennis, Jr., & Madison 8 ******************************************************** Spinet Organ on left Donated by Mr. & Mrs. Claude Gordan ***************************************************************** Conn Theatre Organ Donated In Memory of Milada & Arthur Fay Given by their Family: Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Slanec Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Slanec Mr. & Mrs. Stanley (Milarie) Rude ******************************************************* AND A very Special Donor who gave us our two LARGEST Organs - the Allen !**


Music Technology Community Open House was held Thursday, March 3, 2005 (Pictures below) KG Students Teaching Adults in Community to use Music Software





	Thanks to The Herald News for sending Photographer Mr. John Patsch to cover our Music Technology Open House!

The Kelvin Grove Music Technology Lab History 1997 to Present:
1997 - Mrs. Randolph (D91 music/chorus teacher) started teaching here with one piano, CD player, music books and a few Orff instruments at each building (Milne & Kelvin Grove), her marimba and a borrowed computer. Over the next few years she added other melodic percussion instruments and several borrowed electric pianos for the music students to use in music. Gradually parents started donating old MAC computers and eventually some old PCs. With board approval, she designed a plan to build a music technology lab one computer at a time through donations, grants, and fund-raising efforts. The Kelvin Grove students are so very excited to be using our finished Kelvin Grove Music Technology Lab that was started in 1997 and finished in May of 2010! We have expanded from 1 borrowed computer to 28 MIDI computer stations, 5 organs, and one Teacher MIDI Computer station. We now have 5 electric piano stations at Milne Grove School (Thanks to Joliet Junior College for donating their old computers for us to upgrade. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who donated money, helped raise funds, worked TAG Days, sold Valucards, and many other ways!!! You made a BIG difference! We have now finished the Kelvin Grove Lab after 13 years! We now need to maintain it and finish the Milne Grove Lab.
A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Mrs. Michele Wilson, our current Technology Director and the many technicians of Prairie Technology our our Technology contractor for updating and maintaining our current lab. A SPECIAL THANK YOU to Mr. Jim Pierson who originally helped set-up the music room and currently maintains the physical part of the lab. We couldn't have our lab without all of your help! Thanks goes to our past Music Technology Director, Mr. Doug Ahlfield, who originally installed software, set-up, wired, etc. all of the computers! They worked the summers 2003 and 2004 working on the music lab. Thanks to Mr. Ahlfield, who found Joliet Junior College was getting rid of their old computers. He made arrangements for us to get them FREE. He suggested we should use our music technology money to upgrade the old computers and have more for our money. Instead of purchasing only three new computers – from upgrading the JJC computers we now have 28 computers!! Thanks to our past Technology Director, Mr. Ken Jocius, for all of his hard work.
ANOTHER SPECIAL THANKS to SAM's Club (who gave us our first grant!), Best Buy, Mary Heath Foundation, PROTECH Automation, and the Kelvin Grove Chorus parents for purchasing brand new, state of the art computers with Music Ace Maestro, Sibelius, Musition, Auralia, Instruments, Compass, Band-In-A-Box, Smart Music, The Nutcracker, and other software that will track individual student progress, allow students to sing/play music and be followed by accompaniments which can be accessed from school and home by any of our District # 91 students whose families wish to purchase these programs. These computers will allow Exploratory students to edit and mix videos they create, music they have composed, burn to DVD or CD, etc. and so much more.
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Kelvin Grove Music Lab in 2004-05	2004-05

2003-04 Music Tech Lab with borrowed IGSMA pianos	2004-05 Technology Lab at Kelvin Grove
2003-04 Music Tech Lab with borrowed IGSMA pianos	2003-04 Music Tech Lab with borrowed IGSMA pianos
Music Software Used In Our Curriculum


For Detailed information on music technology classes - click on classes above. If anyone would like information or training in music technology or to join the partners in music technology for the Lockport School District, contact Randolph at 815-838-0737 ext. 140.
Feel free to come visit our music classes and see all of the things our students are learning. (Please make an appointment before coming to make sure what day I will be teaching your child.)