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Soundtrap for Education and Listenwise Partner to Offer Professional Development for Podcasting to all Teachers

AnnouncementEdublog AdminAugust 12, 20190

End-to-end Listening and Podcast Creation Tools for the Classroom are Easily Accessible to Teachers through Personalized Professional Development Soundtrap, a Spotify company, and Listenwise, a listening skills-building company, are partnering to combine Soundtrap’s easy-to-use audio and podcast creation platform with Listenwise’s audio news resources and step-by-step teaching pedagogy to give teachers the Professional Development tools…

Finding the Right EdTech Solutions for Your Classroom

AnnouncementEdublog AdminAugust 1, 20190

As you return from a well-deserved vacation and start planning your 2019-20 school year, we want to take some time to remind you about our Soundtrap for Education platform and share with you a few of the exciting new classroom opportunities that continue to shape our comprehensive slate of offerings. It’s an exciting time –…

Summer Creative Challenge

AnnouncementEdublog AdminJuly 24, 20190

Submit Project Here Taylor Haun, Soundtrap Education Specialist, has broken down for you with some examples:

The 3Ds – A Framework for Using Audio in the Classroom

How-toEdublog AdminJuly 1, 20190

This guest post was written by John R. Sowash. Audio is a hot new way to learn and interact with information. Virtual assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home and the rise of podcasting and audio books are easy indications that audio is on the rise as a method of communicating and learning. But how…

Choice and Voice Through Student Podcasting in a San Francisco High School

Use CasesEdublog AdminJune 17, 20190

Guest blog submission by Rebecca Pollack. Rebecca facilitates the Creative Writing program at Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School in San Francisco Bay Area. When she’s not reading, writing, planning, or grading, she can be found chasing her two young children around the local playground. Our most recent project explored how media,…

Soundtrap Supports Student-Centered Classrooms in Malmö at EAS

AnnouncementEdublog AdminJune 3, 20190

A couple weeks ago 350 teachers and student delegates met in Malmö, Sweden for the 27th European Association of Music in Schools Conference. The theme of the conference was “The School I’d Like” which emphasized student-centered classrooms and encouraged music teachers to design their teaching around the individual students. The courage to trust the students…

Girls Make Beats in Maryland

Classroom CollaborationsEdublog AdminMay 28, 20190

Guest post by Richard McCready Girls Make Beats is a music production club at River Hill High School, in Clarksville, MD. Music Technology has been a curricular option for all students at River Hill since I began teaching there in 2007. Over the years I noticed how all Music Tech classes had very few girls…

Soundtrap for Education Named SIIA Education Technology 2019 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Tool for Student Creation or Expression

AnnouncementEdublog AdminMay 12, 20190

Soundtrap for Education earns prestigious industry recognition for student creativity and expression Stockholm, Sweden, and Palo Alto, CA – May 9, 2019 – Soundtrap, the online collaborative music and podcast recording studio, today announced that Soundtrap for Education was named a 2019 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Tool for Student Creation or Expression…

Soundtrap & Noteflight: Better Together!

AnnouncementEdublog AdminApril 22, 2019

We’re excited to announce a brand new offering from our partner, MusicFirst – Noteflight Learn and Soundtrap for Education bundled in a single subscription. Every music student should learn to compose music using digital tools, and this is an ideal pairing! Soundtrap for Education and Noteflight Learn Bundle Do your students create and compose music…

Colorado Spanish Students Find Ownership, Accountability and Creativity Using Soundtrap

Classroom ExamplesEdublog AdminApril 21, 2019

Below are just a few words we’ve recently received from one of our inspiring world language teachers… “Soundtrap has been a truly collaborative tech tool for my students learning Spanish. In our recent project, students who do not always attend class or do work for me actually finished their songs and presented them to the…