Simple Tech For Music Teachers - Interview with Cheryl Burgemeister

Cheryl’s biggest passion as a teacher is ‘Brain-based’ learning, actively engaging the whole child and bringing technology to the primary music classroom, in a meaningful and fun way. We talked a little about tech for music teachers and how to get the most out of readily available computer software in your music room on The Music Room Podcast...Cheryl was a classroom teacher first, then a music teacherAs well as being a school music teacher she has been working in Australia and NZ with EdNet (link below)The easiest place to start with tech in music classes is recording students to give them feedback or feedforwardUse the recordings, audio or video, to provide ‘evidence’ as recordings are more reliable than notesRecording allows you to be more present to the student’s work rather than assessing it as you goRecordings are also more meaningful for the students than notesAudacity (see link and tips below) or Quicktime on your computer can also be used to recordiPads or tablets are also suitable for recordingLabel recording files in a meaningful wayDrag or drop recordings into PowerPoint or Keynote to create a digital portfolio for students, maybe with a photo of the students work inserted or a rhythm pattern displayed of what they performedYou can also record directly into PowerPointPowerpoint is becoming the most commonly used toolTeachers Pay Teachers is a good resource for PowerPoint and other resources (see link below)Google Classroom (see link below), best used on Chrome browsers, is an education focussed version of GSuite (similar to Microsoft Office products but online)It houses and stores student work, allowing for easy marking on your laptopStudents can work on shared Google Slides documents (similar to PowerPoint)Google Classroom also integrates with Bandlab (see link below) Recipe Beer Soup (Leoš Janáček)Beer soup, you say? Though the dish may seem strange, it was favourite of Leoš Janáček from childhood. He recounted his preparation for beer soup in a letter to his fiancée, Zdenka Schulzova: “I did make a beer soup for myself the other day. Cooked the beer, beat one egg very foamy, threw in eight sugar cubes, and as the beer was cooking, poured in this egg batter. My God! From the first swallow I had a flashback of my mother and her beer soup.”Quote “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything” - PlatoUseful Links:Chery’s website Mrs B Music Room - https://mrsbmusicroom.comCheryl Burgemeister on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-burgemeister-972a35129/ Music EdNet - http://www.musicednet.com/Home.aspx Audacity - https://www.audacityteam.org/ Google Classroom - https://classroom.google.com/ Teachers Pay Teachers - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ BandLab - https://www.bandlab.com/Bushfire Press - https://www.bushfirepress.com Bushfire Press Facebook Community (for discussions and info) - https://www.facebook.com/bushfirepress.community/ Mark Leehy Email -