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A unique and exciting professional development opportunity is coming to Orlando, Florida next month. Join your fellow music educators for Amplify the Future of Music: Opening Doors for All Students, November 6-10, where we’ll all come together to lead the music education profession’s direction, engage with colleagues and inspire one another to guide music students…
Written by Monica Brady-Myerov* Podcasting is exploding! I used to work as an NPR reporter, and eight years ago the industry was wringing its hands fearing the death of radio. What we didn’t foresee was the rebirth of interest in audio in the form of podcasting. Recent research indicates that 51% of the US population has…
Soundtrap for Education has partnered with Make Music Matter on a unique collaboration with Sweden’s national school project Make Music Matter! and ABBA The Museum. The project will start this September and run until 2020. The application is open until September 20, 2019 and approximately 300 schools have registered so far. More information can be…
End-to-end Listening and Podcast Creation Tools for the Classroom are Easily Accessible to Teachers through Personalized Professional Development Soundtrap, a Spotify company, and Listenwise, a listening skills-building company, are partnering to combine Soundtrap’s easy-to-use audio and podcast creation platform with Listenwise’s audio news resources and step-by-step teaching pedagogy to give teachers the Professional Development tools…
As you return from a well-deserved vacation and start planning your 2019-20 school year, we want to take some time to remind you about our Soundtrap for Education platform and share with you a few of the exciting new classroom opportunities that continue to shape our comprehensive slate of offerings. It’s an exciting time –…
Submit Project Here Taylor Haun, Soundtrap Education Specialist, has broken down for you with some examples:
This guest post was written by John R. Sowash. Audio is a hot new way to learn and interact with information. Virtual assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home and the rise of podcasting and audio books are easy indications that audio is on the rise as a method of communicating and learning. But how…
Guest blog submission by Rebecca Pollack. Rebecca facilitates the Creative Writing program at Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School in San Francisco Bay Area. When she’s not reading, writing, planning, or grading, she can be found chasing her two young children around the local playground. Our most recent project explored how media,…
A couple weeks ago 350 teachers and student delegates met in Malmö, Sweden for the 27th European Association of Music in Schools Conference. The theme of the conference was “The School I’d Like” which emphasized student-centered classrooms and encouraged music teachers to design their teaching around the individual students. The courage to trust the students…
Guest post by Richard McCready Girls Make Beats is a music production club at River Hill High School, in Clarksville, MD. Music Technology has been a curricular option for all students at River Hill since I began teaching there in 2007. Over the years I noticed how all Music Tech classes had very few girls…