Music Ed Tech 4U Podcast

One of the easiest things to do as a teacher is to slow down, give clear directions and also ensure that communication is effective both ways, as part of the online lesson. You can also think about the way you confirm understanding, while also considering different ways to engage and assist the student. Here, some simple ideas related to organizing and pre-recording tracks to assist your students are discussed, including ideas about tempo, count ins, and the development of materials that can be prepared and shared with several students. 

One of the easiest things to do as a teacher is to slow down, give clear directions and also ensure that communication is effective both ways, as part of the online lesson. You can also think about the way you confirm understanding, while also considering different ways to engage and assist the student. Here, some simple ideas related to organizing and pre-recording tracks to assist your students are discussed, including ideas about tempo, count ins, and the development of materials that can be prepared and shared with several students. 

In this episode, the idea of screencasting and using the image of your main computer screen, accompanied by your own voice, or a combination of other sound sources is discussed. This podcast highlights the value of using your powerpoints, keynote presentations, pdf's, combined with webpage links or realtime software demonstrations, to create a range of easy to access, screencasts for teachers and music educators to access and develop online learning. Here the easy to use software Screencast-o-Matic is highlighted, while also discussing how the use of screencasts assist learning as you can flip content before or after a class, and allow students to access and review material multiple times to consolidate their learning. Students who are unable to attend can catch up as needed, or review the material multiple times. In an online world, when teaching music or other subjects across a range of settings, and devices, this is a really useful tool to become familiar with and use in your preparation of teaching resources and online material. The best thing is that screencasts are not too big in file sile, making them easy to upload or share.

In this first episode, we give a very general overview of some key considerations with sound and sight when developing online learning with reference to different teaching approaches, talking about different types of microphones, camera angles and also the way you can adapt these to assist with your online teaching.

If you are looking at how to plan your semester for teaching music online, this is the episode for you. We get down to the basic step-by-step outline of what you should be considering to not only get you started, but how to finish, that new online music course!

Can you teach choir class online? Listen to this episode to discover some of the effective online activities you can use for your online choir class or online ensemble performance groups.

Looking for some asynchronous activities to try in your online music classroom? In this episode, we highlight we basic to advanced activities that you can try out with your students.

In this first episode, we give a very general overview of some key considerations with sound and sight when developing online learning with reference to different teaching approaches, talking about different types of microphones, camera angles and also the way you can adapt these to assist with your online teaching.

Looking for some asynchronous activities to try in your online music classroom? In this episode, we highlight we basic to advanced activities that you can try out with your students.

Can you teach choir class online? Listen to this episode to discover some of the effective online activities you can use for your online choir class or online ensemble performance groups.