The Music Tech Teacher Podcast

If you or your students are creating videos which include music and you intend to share them online, you will need to find audio tracks that you are legally permitted to use. In this episode, I'll share nine places to find free and legal music for your video and audio projects.

Today I share some of my favorite places to find images and clipart that you might need when creating teaching materials like worksheets, presentations, interactive Google Slides activities and more.

Today - we need to talk….I want to give you all some tough love tech advice.

I want to talk about all those things you know you should be doing but are procrastinating on or burying your head in the sand about.

I'm going to go through 6 things you need to do which will:

• improve the security and safety of your devices and data
• speed up your device
• give you peace of mind
• good job for the holidays!

I've been listening to podcasts for around 12 years now and it's a daily thing for me. Most of the time I discover new podcasts through word of mouth, so I wanted to share some of my personal favourites in this episode and the next one so that you all might find some new things to listen to.

In this episode and the next one, I'll be sharing some of the education podcasts that I listen to regularly.

Abelton Live is a hugely popular software choice for professional music producers and DJs and the program that your teenage students probably want to learn the most. In this episode of the Music Tech Teacher podcast, Abelton's Education Specialist for Australia/New Zealand Matt Ridgway and I discuss how Abelton is being used in schools, where to find free lesson plans and learning materials and how you can get your hands on free Push controllers.

Many of you will know that one of my favourite tech tools is Canva - the online graphic design tool. Canva adds new features all the time so in this episode I decided to share some recent new additions, plus highlight some of the features that have been available for a while that you might not have noticed. After you've listened to the episode let me know if you learnt something new!

Back in December 2021 we ran a music tech survey where we asked you about the types of devices you and your students use, what you wanted to learn more about and which apps or sites were hits with your students. Here are the results of the survey - which included a couple of surprises!

Bill Henry is the creator of Mr Henry's Music World - a popular Youtube channel and website that provides educational music content for teachers, parents and students. Bill and I delve into his video creation methods: techniques, equipment, the time involved in producing videos and much more.

Welcome to part 2 of our listener questions. In this episode we discuss how to economically print QR codes from Flipgrid, what to learn when you start using a new notation software program, tips for editing sound in iMovie and how to set up sound equipment.

Today I'll be answering some tech questions that were submitted by you - the listeners of this podcast. In this episode we'll hear from four teachers and I'll answer questions from another 5 teachers in the following episode.