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Guest post written by Chris Heille, Director of Product Innovation at Jamstik. This piece was originally published on the Jamstik blog here. THE JAMSTIK WORKS WITH SOUNDTRAP! We’re excited to announce the integration of the jamstik with Soundtrap—an online music studio that operates directly in your Google Chrome browser! Our friends at Soundtrap decided that…
Guest Post by Jarrod Schindler, Breanna Reilly, Liam O’Connell from Marist College Canberra. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Acknowledgment We wish to pay respect to all Indigenous people of Australia, both past & present, and further acknowledge the important role that Indigenous people continue to play within our…
Written by Heath Jones – Music Technology, McConnell Middle School I teach music technology at McConnell Middle School in Gwinnett County, Georgia. We are one of the largest suburban school districts in the country located approximately 35 miles east of Atlanta. Working in a school system this large has its pros and cons, but one of…
Top leaders, innovators, and trendsetters announced to millions interested in creating a better future for learning with the help of technology. The finalists for The EdTech Awards 2018 have been announced to a global online audience of millions of educators, technologists, students, parents, and policymakers interested in creating a better future for education. Now in…
Written by Bill Manchester Student-created podcasts are a great way to fuse multiple disciplines together and allow students to take ownership of their learning and assessment. Generally, students find it very engaging and podcasting tends to produce very genuine reflections of student learning. However, creating a high-quality podcast is a time-consuming endeavor. Serial, one of the…
Guest Post – Bob Habersat is the guitar, music theory, and music technology teacher at Oak Lawn Community High School in Oak Lawn Illinois. He is also a co-founder and content creator for the free music education website shedthemusic.com. Soundtrap is, without a doubt, one of the most brilliant tools that has come out for music…
Guest post by Lio Chulak. Technology is breathing new life into our school’s music program. Until recently, our music program at ORT Argentina in Buenos Aires, a private Jewish school that is open to the entire community, lacked adventure. As the school’s academic director of music, I wanted to take music to a new level—one…
I met Beth Hollenbeck at the APME Conference in Denver, Colorado last summer. After a short conversation over dinner I soon realized that she is a rock star doing AMAZING things for her students. As a fellow music educator and kindred spirit, we have stayed connected the past several months. She recently shared via email…
Guest post by Sara Andreas. Sara (Libby) is in her 10th year of teaching Middle School music. She taught for 7 years in Bullhead City Arizona (Fox Creek Jr. High) and currently teaches in Grain Valley Missouri (Grain Valley South Middle School). Mrs. Andreas has an Associates in Science from Cottey College, a Bachelors of…
Guest post by Vickie Morgado. Vickie is an elementary educator in Ontario, Canada. She has taught multiple grades and worked as a technology coach. Vickie believes in empowering her students to take charge of their learning to create positive change in the world becoming agents of change. She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum Studies from Brock…