Midnight Music Community Member Spotlight This member spotlight features Judith Bell from Christchurch, New Zealand. What do you teach and where? I am responsible for music at Chisnallwood Intermediate School (NZ year 7 and 8) in Christchurch, New Zealand. I mainly teach extra curricular music such as jazz, orchestra, rock and other ensembles as [...]
In this episode My guest today is Matt Ferrante - a music tech teacher from the Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy - a STEM school where the motto is "Dream. Discover. Design." They have a relatively unique digital-only arts program which means there is no band or chorus or even a stage. Listen to the episode [...]
For the past 6 years I have put together a list of free music technology resources in an ebook titled The Ultimate Free Music Tech Resources Guide. In this episode I share the history of the guide and share some of my favourite free music tech resources. Listen to the episode here (or on [...]
Music Quotes to Inspire: on practice, performance, and hard work If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it ~Jascha Heifetz Practice only on the days you eat! ~ Shinichi Suzuki Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't [...]
In this episode: Karla McClain uses technology - in particular iPads and Chromebooks - with her choir students to encourage creativity and to improve music literacy skills in her student-centered classes. Listen to the episode here (or on your favourite podcast app): Resources and links mentioned Tenuto app for iPad and [...]
In this episode I'm joined by Richard McCready, who runs a popular music tech course for senior students at River Hill High School. He talks about his students' composition-based projects and the online publishing process they use to share work. Listen to the episode here (or on your favourite podcast app): Resources and [...]
Free Ebook: Ultimate Free Music Tech Resources Guide 2017 Each year I put together a list of free music tech resources - websites, software and more - that you can use in your music classroom. It all began with a workshop I ran in 2009 titled Music Technology On A Shoestring. In 2012 I [...]
Midnight Music Community Member Spotlight This member spotlight features Traci Cenedese from Victoria Australia. What do you teach and where? I am a leading teacher in Performing Arts at Hampton Primary School. I teach classroom music and also manage the 15 instrumental teachers we have. Name one favourite technology tool or resource [...]
Composing movie soundtracks - or film scoring - has always been a hugely popular topic with students and teachers alike, but there are always questions around where to find movies, what to do if there is a soundtrack already, which software to use and how to approach the topic with students. I answer those [...]
In this episode: Middle school teacher Josh Emanuel from New York has been running engaging music and coding classes using Scratch software and the MaKey MaKey invention kit. Josh shares his lessons, student responses and some tips. Listen to the episode here (or on your favourite podcast app): Resources and links mentioned [...]
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