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Guest Post by Bruce & Erin Upstead Great American Epic is a classroom and after-school podcasting experience that creates student agency in the American Dream by helping students identify and celebrate the core American values. All to answer the question: What makes America great? In creating student podcasts, we are not asking students what will…
By Michael Peterson (Coach Mike), teacher, Abraham Stockton School Knowing the Neighborhood I’m an educator at Abraham Stockton School, PS 297, in Brooklyn teaching fifth-grade kids aged 10/11 about wellness – everything from the physical to emotional and social wellness. I grew up in the very same neighborhood that the school is in. We are…
Shedthemusic’s Production Through Performance curriculum is a new take on the music technology class. The student-centered course uses a flipped classroom philosophy to deliver an exciting method of learning how to create pop music using the piano keyboard as the primary instrument. There are twenty-eight projects that are separated into six units covering the basics of how…
Guest blog post by Zach Diamond, Music and Music in Spanish Teacher to 6th-9th graders at DC International School. Listen to this: No, this little song isn’t perfect. It wouldn’t get played on the radio – if we’re nitpicking, maybe the gain’s a little high on the voice; the sounds the girls make before they sing should…
Guest post by Gordon Fischer For the past two years, I was blessed to live and work at a Teachers’ College in Uganda. During my time at Mukuju PTC, the students and I developed a tight bond through history lessons, dramatizations, poetry, and debates. The biggest accomplishment was constructing a basketball court and neighboring public health…
We have had some incredible educators recently show up on the Soundtrap for Education team’s radar. Meet Danielle Sorrentino, Karen Pace and Annmarie Buonaspina, educators from Long Island. Here’s how it all went down: Danielle’s colleague Karen Pace invited the Soundtrap team to present to their entire middle school faculty to kick off their PD day…
Dear Soundtrap Team, I am Kelly Perez, the band teacher at PS 200 in Brooklyn, NY and my students and I love cupcakes, integrating technology into our classroom and finding new ways to make music! I wanted to share with you our unit on Jingle Bells. The student objectives included learning to play a simple…
By Shelley Emslie Four years ago, I was introduced to Soundtrap by a colleague; ironically, the music teacher, Brianne Fuzesy, and I have not looked back. My approach is not linear, nor is it conventional. I do not teach about note value, rhythm, or beat. In fact, my students just dive in; head first! Often, grade-level…
Stockholm, Sweden and Andorra November 22, 2018 (original release) The Government of Andorra’s Ministry of Education has purchased a countrywide license for the Soundtrap online music and podcast recording studio. Soundtrap’s browser-based music and podcast recording solution will be rolled out to all the children in this country, starting with a small group this year….
Soundtrap has been partnering with the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings (CEEAS) to spark original musical creations among youth in American juvenile justice facilities. CEEAS works with instructors in these facilities to maximize teaching and learning in order to help students succeed after release, whether in further education or jobs. Soundtrap provided free…