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 homes. There’s a lot of discussion about this online and many teachers are being asked to formulate plans for remote teaching just in case.

In this episode, I cover the tech tools that can help you teach remotely.

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 are 6 Fun Student Assignments Using Canva.

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.