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PUSH FOR PODCASTING. Educator Josh Allen (pictured above), a tech integration specialist at 3,000-student Lewis Central schools in Iowa, has broken the standards barrier and helped teachers put students in control of their learning. “Podcasts push students to collaborate in authentic ways and to have academically rigorous conversations around text,” he says. In this article, Josh explains…
Soundtrap was recently used for collaborative game production at the National Girls Learning Code Day. In this collaborative experience, learners worked together to build a video game that addresses a social or environmental issue and works towards change. Learners explored the game industry by experiencing what it’s like to work on different project teams, within a…
Guest post by David Dover. David is the Music Technology Instructor at North Gwinnett Middle School in Sugar Hill, GA. He is a veteran music educator in instrumental music and music technology for 20+ years, a music technology standards revisionist for the state of Georgia and Gwinnett County, and a contributor to the music technology…
This was originally posted from Stephen Key’s personal blog. Stephen is a Google Certified Educator and Trainer as well as a Band Director at Bondurant Middle School in Kentucky. For the past 10 years, not only have I taught middle school and high school band, I have had to teach courses in “General Music” and…
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…