Welcome!
Thanks for attending my sessions today. Below you will find notes and links from the sessions. Click on each download button to receive the notes in your email inbox.
– Katie
1. Midnight Music Community – Special offer for workshop attendees
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2. Digital Portfolios Session
Download a copy of my presentation file.
I wrote a series of posts on digital portfolios in music education which covers all of the things we talked about during the session. You can download a copy of each one by using the button at the bottom of the post:
- Digital Portfolios in Music Education Part 1
- Digital Portfolios in Music Education Part 2A
- Digital Portfolios in Music Education Part 2B
- Part 3 is coming soon!
Other links
- Cherie Herring’s Music Tech Integrate site (includes Explain Everything template files and instructions)
- Cheryl Burgmeister’s website and article about digital portfolios
Places to find free images
- Pixabay (my favourite source of public domain images)
- Compfight
- Icons – The Noun Project
- Music notation library
- Guitar chord symbols
- Ukelele chord symbols
- Music fonts
Videos
My favourite source of videos is the Internet Archive (Moving Image Archive). Try the Animation and Cartoons, Animation Shorts, Comedy or NASA collections.
Music
My favourite source of music files is the collection by composer Kevin MacLeod on Incompetech. You can search for music by mood or genre. You will need to acknowledge the composer if you use his music in a project.
3. Flipping the Music Classroom Session
1. Flipping the Music Classroom (slides from my presentation)
2. Creating Great Software Tutorials
3. Jing Guide
4. Create a Kahoot here (to PLAY a Kahoot game go here). Also: Kahoot Pedagogy and Kahoot Tutorials
4. Useful links on Pinterest
Click here to view my Pinterest profile.
Explore the links on Pinterest to find Sibelius, links, film scoring links (look for the Wallace And Grommit videos!), video game music links, iPad links and LOTS more and more.
Like the Midnight Music Facebook page and join some useful Facebook groups:
- First of all, please join me by liking the Midnight Music FaceBook page
- Music Teachers Facebook group
- Australian Classroom Music Teachers group (you might need to ask a current member to add you. Send me a PM on Facebook and I can do that)
- I Teach Music Technology