The Music Tech Teacher Podcast

Looking for music puzzles or games that you can use to reinforce musical concepts in a fun way? There are a number of free websites that let you create your own puzzles super-fast. In the next few podcast episodes I'll introduce you to a few of my favourites, starting today with the flexible bingo creation tool Bingo Baker.

Flipgrid is a fantastic free tool for teachers - it's a video response platform that allows you to set an assignment for students where they will respond with a video.  One of the great things about Flipgrid is the camera that you use to make videos. In this episode, I'll share 3 types of videos you can make for your students.

In this episode, we'll discuss how to use choice boards in music education. We'll cover what they are, the benefits of using them, how students complete them, and some choice board topic ideas you can use right away.

Have you had your school concerts cancelled? All those rehearsals and nothing to show for it :( So what can you do?  There are a few different ways you can capture all the hard work that your ensembles have put in over the past months. In this episode, I'm going to discuss three approaches you can take to creating a video that celebrates the achievements of your music ensembles.

This episode is a follow-on from episode 104 where I shared 5 important tech tools to consider for teaching remotely.  Today I want to share some specific tips for creating teaching videos. Being able to create short, effective teaching videos is an important skill to have and it's become even more important now that many educators are teaching remotely, or planning to.

This episode is going to be a little different and we're going to take an unscheduled break from our theme of the month. With the outbreak of the Coronavirus, there are a number of schools that have closed indefinitely and many other schools are preparing for possible future closures. This has meant that educators are now teaching remotely - they are at home, teaching students who are in their own...

We are continuing with our Canva-themed month! Canva is a fantastic graphic design software tool that is free to use.  I've been talking about the ways you can use it as a teacher to create your own teaching materials, but it also works really well for student assignments.  Instead of giving students a written assignment, you could ask them to create something visual to show what they know. Here a...

In this episode we're continuing with our Canva theme for the month and I'm going to share 12 different ways that you can use Canva for your own needs as a teacher.

In today's episode we'll be talking about Canva, the online graphic design tool, and how to use it to create beautiful teaching resources for your classroom.

We've reached episode 100! This year, Midnight Music: Published 38 blog posts Released 25 podcast episodes Hosted 12 free live music tech training sessions Welcomed 100+ amazing members into the Midnight Music Community Had over 1,000 people sign up for Freebie Fridays on our Facebook page We'll talk about each of those things in more detail, starting with the podcast.

The basic concept of an escape room is that students work in teams to solve puzzles or answer questions to discover a secret code - or series of codes - which will allow them to "escape" the room or solve a mystery.  And they only have 30 minutes to do it! If you've ever been interested in setting up your own escape room for your music students, this episode will help you get started.

At this time of year, I often see an increase in student art projects shared on social media. Creating artwork that represents student learning can be a great project in any subject.  Something I saw a music teacher share years ago was soundwave art - a visual representation of a soundwave that had been printed out and added to a picture, but the best part was that it wasn't any old random soundwa...

Continuing with our accessibility theme, I've invited Phil Heeley on to the podcast to talk about his work with his business Inclusive Music.  Phil has worked with students of all abilities over his 30 year career including the elderly, those with special needs and disabilities, and he also works in mainstream UK education with primary-aged students right through to university age.

Our current theme on the blog and podcast is accessibility and today I have a guest on - a music educator named Alex Rees from the UK - to talk about what he has been doing with special needs students.  Alex is a freelance music and sound technologist, a music producer and education consultant from Wales who manages creative learning projects both in and out of schools. He works with a range of yo...

The next few podcast episodes and blog posts on MidnightMusic.com.au fall into our Accessibility theme.   In addition to sharing apps, software and other tech gear, I'll be talking to a couple of music educators about their experiences working with special needs students and students with learning difficulties.  I know many of you are looking for ideas in this area and the good thing is that the r...

Today's episode is the final one in our productivity series and it's all about templates.  I love templates for many reasons and they can truly increase your productivity! I share the benefits of using templates, some ideas for places you can incorporate templates into your everyday life and give some tips on how to save them.

Over the past few years I've tried very hard to be more productive.  We all have the same amount of time in a day, a week, a year - but it comes down to how you use that time.  Today's episode is another productivity-related one and it's all about making use of unexpected pockets of time in your day.

A member of the Midnight Music Community recently asked -  how can I manage ALL of my links, resources, ideas, and videos so I can find them easily? I ended up running a live training session to explain some of the ways that I manage to organise my digital "stuff" and I thought it would also be of interest to teachers listening to this podcast.  If you're a member of the Midnight Music Community y...

Google Calendar is one of my most frequently-used tech tools.  Do you want to learn some tips for using calendar more efficiently and effectively?  In the first podcast episode for our Productivity themed month, I share some of the Google Calendar shortcuts and hidden features that you might not have yet  discovered.

For the final episode in Back to Basics month I share 3 apps that your students can use to create digital portfolios.

In this episode, I'll be talking about the two software applications that I think every music teacher should know how to use. The ones I'm referring to are music apps and they are both SO useful in many, many ways: for you to use as a teacher, but als o for you to use with your students.  Which ones are they? All will be revealed in the episode!

In this episode of the Music Tech Teacher Podcast, I'll be talking about the best microphones for simple classroom recordings, mics for students to use, and mics for your own teaching purposes.

Our theme for this month on the blog and podcast is Back to Basics and today we're kicking off back to basics month with an episode about the differences between audio and midi files. In this episode I cover what are they, the differences between them,  when to use them and the unique super powers of each one.

There are many free tech resources that are useful in the music classroom, but not all of them are music-specific. Here are 3 of my favourite non-music free tech tools that are perfect for ALL teachers across all subject areas.

Our theme for this month is free music tech resources and in this episode I share 9 different places you can find free sound effects for music tech projects your students might be working on.   I'll also cover Tips on how to expand a limited sound effects library without downloading any extras Why it's good for students to make their own Example projects involving sound effects