The Music Tech Teacher Podcast

This is part B of a two-part series on productivity for music teachers. In this second part, we'll look at how to safely back up all of your data, how to overcome website loading issues, how to retrieve a webpage that's disappeared, how to effectively save links to videos and websites, how to speed up the student assessment process and how to learn or transcribe songs fast.

Technology is a big part of my everyday life and has helped me improve my productivity in many ways. Over the next two episodes I'll discuss some of the tech tools that I use on a daily basis to make me more efficient and organised. In part A we'll look at how to save ALL your passwords without having to remember a single one, how to keep track of your to-do list and how to be kind to your future...

In episode 4 I talked about 19 different ways you can use just one iPad in music education, and I wanted to follow that up today with some ideas for using a single computer with your students. I know that some of you don't have constant access to devices that students can use hands-on which means that a lot of the time you are just working with your own laptop. Even if you have just one computer,...

Scanning music can turn your paper music library into a portable digital library that's with you at all times. It can also help you get notes into a notation software program like Sibelius, Finale, Noteflight or MuseScore super-fast. But what exactly is

What if you don't have access to multiple iPads in the music classroom? What can you do with just a single iPad? As it turns out - quite a lot! I'll discuss some of the ways you can use your own iPad with your students, from identifying notes of the staff

There are many times during the school year where you need to assess the progress or understanding of students in your classes, but with the technology tools available these days that process can be fun for both you and your students. I talk about 4 different formative assessment tools that work well in the music classroom.

I recently arranged a song sitting at my keyboard and realised afterwards that I had only used the resources available to me on my iPhone (which I was holding at the time!). Using a small number of apps on my phone, I worked out lyrics, chords, song form and did a recording of the arrangement. In this episode I'll talk about the methods I used in the "olden days" and how I manage to speed up the p...

In this episode of the MTT podcast, I talk about why podcasts have been one of the best sources of education and inspiration for me over the past 8 years and why I think they are an effective and convenient way to learn. I also discuss my current favourit

Welcome to the Music Tech Teacher podcast!  In this episode, host Katie Wardrobe talks about the new show and what's to come: music technology tips and ideas especially for music teachers.