10 Music Educator Channels to Check Out – Spring ’21
This week’s video is a roundup of ten music educator channels worth looking at. There are so many educators working hard to give value back. In what is likely to become a quarterly series, here is my first batch. As well as all their free content, lots of the channels have websites, social groups that…
Setup and Manage Your Class in BandLab
✅ VIDEO NOTES In this week’s video I am talking about how to setup BandLab right so your students or pupils in your school, trust or district can all continue to access their compositions and assignments as them move up the school. And the correct people in your organisation have the correct roles to manage…
Intro to Teaching Music With BandLab
✅ VIDEO NOTES Today’s video begins a new series about using BandLab in blended learning. It’s a long one as I am introducing the site and tools, and first composition using the loops library. As well as that, this week’s ‘Teacher Read’ is my first look at ‘Digital Minimalism’ by Cal Newport. 00:00 intro 00:28…
Ableton’s Online Music Tools
✅ VIDEO NOTES Today’s video shines a light on the great web tools and learning resources made by Ableton, and provided freely on their website. I drive around the different areas available with a few quick demos of what is available to you. If you’ve never been to ableton.com it’s worth the couple of minutes…
14 Ways to Teach Music Using Audacity | Part 2
✅ VIDEO NOTES Today’s video is the second in my series about how to use and teach with Audacity. It covers 14 more examples of ways to use the app. This includes rounds and ostinato, found sounds and sound walks, making backing tracks, recording podcasts and stories, and editing speed, tempo, key and pitch of…
Teaching Music Using Audacity | Part 1 – Recording and Editing
✅ VIDEO NOTES Today’s video is the first in my series about how to use and teach with Audacity. It covers the basics of the app as well as then my first batch of examples about how to use it in teaching music. This includes recording performances and compositions, how to add backing tracks and…
Tips to Use OneNote to Teach Music Part 3 | Audio Bookmarking
✅ VIDEO NOTES This is part 3 of my OneNote for music teaching series – this time about audio bookmarking in music files and student’s own recordings. In this video I talk about using OneNote to teach music by bookmarking points in a piece of music, such as a choir track to help rehearse, and…
Tips to Use OneNote to Teach Music | Part 2 – Embedding
✅ VIDEO NOTES This is part 2 of my OneNote for music teaching series – this time about Embedding files and content. OneNote is a note taking app for organising pages into folders. In this video I talk about using OneNote to teach music by embedding video content, recorded lessons, forms and surveys, different audio…
Tips to Use OneNote to Teach Music | Part 1 – Images & Inking
✅ VIDEO NOTES OneNote is a note taking app for organising pages into folders. In this video I talk about using OneNote to teach music. I cover using the app and in the browser, both through Office365 and Teams, or through a free Microsoft account. This is part one of a series on OneNote. In…
