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El galardonado podcast en línea y estudio de música llega a los estudiantes de América Central y del Sur BETT Conference, Ciudad de México, México y Estocolmo, Suecia – 10 de octubre de 2018 – Soundtrap, el estudio colaborativo en línea de música y podcast está siendo cada vez más aceptado por profesores en México…
One Canadian teacher brings teachers from Nigeria, Romania, US and Canada together under the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Teaching sustainability helps our kids understand the world’s economic, social and environmental issues. Through this lens, my students and others like them around the globe are using music to promote a sustainable development agenda to…
Andrea Huskie from Lansing High School in New York had a great experience with their Soundtrap trial last year. Their students used the software to produce mini podcasts for the NY Times Podcast Contest and had quite a few recognized for their efforts! Above, one of 10 winners of their contest: “Steel City Academy Podcast” by…
Huge shoutout to Stacey Wright, an Instructional Technology Integrator at Chesterfield County Public Schools. She has graciously shared with us her recent professional development presentation to their district Performing Arts Teachers. Read, learn, use, adapt, enjoy! Here is a link to make a copy via Google Slides. Thanks again, Stacey!
Guest post by John Churchville. Mr. Churchville, a music educator from Ann Arbor, Michigan, reflects on his experience at the 2018 Association for Popular Music Education National Conference. Recently I traveled to a town just outside of Nashville, Tennessee called Murfreesboro to attend the Association for Popular Music Education (APME) National Conference. This yearly event…
Guest Post by Gabriel Carrillo, Instructional Technology Specialist from San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Carrillo is also the creator and host of the Edtech Bites Podcast. STEAM schools are popping up left and right. In fact, many STEM schools are now incorporating the “A” into their curriculum and rebranding themselves as STEAM. In all fairness, they…
Earlier this summer we posted Planning Soundtrap PD in the Fall? Part I which featured Education Specialist, Meredith Allen, breaking down her thoughts and solutions to problematic common teacher professional development practices. Now we’d like to follow up with some resources created by Jocelyn Kervin, a Digital Literacy Resource Teacher in Ontario. She has created an AMAZING…
The following is a guest post authored by Alycia Pindar, a K-8 music teacher at Sir William Stephenson PS in Whitby, Ontario. She is Bonus Mom to two amazing kids and Wife to a spectacular and supportive husband. She loves exploring the world, especially because that’s where the best food is. She reads while walking, plays Ultimate…
By Aoife Kimber Podcasts are now grabbing the attention of 42 million Americans above the age of 12 who listen to podcasts at least on a weekly basis, and monthly listeners are growing up to 24 percent a year. That’s four times the number that go to the movies every week according to a 2017 Edison…
What are the biggest problems with common teacher professional development practices and how can they be fixed? Aristotle said: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Sometimes I feel like our leaders miss this target when planning and facilitating professional development for educators. We are individuals. We learn differently from each…