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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…
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…
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…
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…