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Today we welcome back Shawna Longo – a music educator from New Jersey – for the third time. Shawna has just finished creating a full online course for Music First and I thought it would be great to have her on to share some tips for tackling course and lesson design when you’re starting from scratch.
Links
- Free training: Music Technology Curriculum Ideas for Middle School Students
- Music First
- Tic Tac Toe assignment template examples
- Shawna’s advice to students: 3B4me (ask 3 people before me)
- Guitar strings mnemonic: Eddy Ate Dynamite Goodbye Eddy
Tips for creating learning materials:
- Map out broad topics/areas first, then units, then individual lessons
- Create a standard structure or guidelines for yourself
- Provide more than one activity type so students can choose to showcase their knowledge in their preferred style
- Design the course materials with generic instructions to give yourself flexibility in the future
Sharing Spotify playlists
- Locate the playlist
- Click/tap on the More button
- Choose Share
- Select Copy Playlist Link or Copy Embed Code (or one of the other options)
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The Midnight Music Community (MMC) is an online space for music teachers interested in learning more about music technology. There are online courses, lesson plans and lots of other resources for Chromebooks, iPads, Macs and PCs. Professional development certificates are available for all training undertaken by MMC members and I am in the Community everyday, personally answering questions and offering advice to members.
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