Welcome!
Thanks for attending my sessions today. Below you will find notes and links from all four sessions. Click on each download button to receive the notes in your email inbox.
– Katie
1. Midnight Music Community – Special offer for DAYTiME attendees
The Midnight Music Community is a professional development community for teachers who want to learn more about using technology with their students.
There are 12 full online courses, lesson plans, help and advice all available to you as soon as you sign up. Katie is in there every day personally answering questions and you can connect with other teachers with tech questions and problems just like you.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR DAYTIME ATTENDEES
DAYTiME attendees can take advantage of a special offer of more than 20% off the regular subscription prices :
For more information about the Midnight Music Community click here
2. GarageBand for iPad Session
Please click on the download button below to receive a copy of the notes.
Extra notes
Click on the button below to download a copy of the presentation file I showed at the beginning of the session (includes the Choose Your Own Adventure Remix instructions).
Download iPad GarageBand slides
Other useful articles
3. 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.
4. Formative Assessment Session
Links to resources below. Don’t forget to search for existing quizzes where possible, before creating something from scratch. Save or “favourite” the quiz so you can find it easily in the future. In many cases you can also copy/duplicate the quiz and then edit it if it doesn’t quite suit your needs.
Assessment resources we looked at:
- Create a Kahoot here (to PLAY a Kahoot game go here)
- Plickers
- Playposit
- Socrative
- TED-ED (we didn’t get time to look at this one!)
- Google Forms
- QR Code generator (QR Stuff) – this is the website I use to create QR codes
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