Project Lovelace research was funded by the James A. and Faith Knight Foundation and focused on teaching music technology to girls at a teen drop-in center (non-credit program) as well as a mixed gender K-12 music class at regional middle school (credit program). Five modules were developed for each of the programs. The modules, below, are adaptations of the in-class modules that will facilitate continued learning on-line.

Non-Credit Program

Five modules were created for the non-credit program using GarageBand, a Mac OS X-based software application that allows users to create music.

• Module 1 introduces the fundamental aspects of sound.
• Module 2 introduces GarageBand and GarageBand's loop editor.
• Module 3 discusses some of the complexities of adding instruments.
• Module 4 introduces some of the more advanced features of GarageBand.
• Module 5 explains how to export GarageBand songs to iTunes, mp3 players, and Audacity.

Credit Program

The five module credit program utilizes Audacity, a free, cross-platform digital audio software program .

• Module 1 introduces basic concepts digital audio and audio editing, and introduces Audacity.
• Module 2 explains the basic features of Audacity using copy and paste to make multiple tracks of sound.
• Module 3 explores Audacity's many different audio effects.
• Module 4 discusses some of the more advanced uses of Audacity.
• Module 5 explains how to export Audacity tracks to mp3 players, audio CDs, and to use Audacity tracks in other programs like GarageBand.