Below you will find notes from all of the workshops I have presented. If you like my work, please support me by buying me a coffee. thank you for your support.
2021 & 2023 Workshops
Australian Society for Music Education – Queensland April 2021 and REMIX 2023 National ANCOS Conference
Click on the links below to download the resources:
Remix simple composition PowerPoint Handout.pdf
Yr 7 Music Songlines Work Sheet.pdf
Chord Card major & minor Hookpad colours.pdf
Scale Card major Hookpad colours.pdf
Scale Card 2 octaves major Hookpad colours.pdf
Chrome Music Lab Song Maker Composition PD Tch Notes.pdf
4 Chord Pop Phrase Composition Recipe Cards.pdf
4 Chord Pop Phrase Analysis.pptx
2019 Workshops
DAYTiME Website
Coding the Elements of Music
Coding the Elements of Music Notes
Creative Media Arts Merging Music and Video
Creative Media Arts- Merging Music and Video Notes
How to arrange a song in GarageBand on iPad recording only 2 bars!
How to arrange a song in GarageBand on iPad recording only 2 bars basic notes
2018 Workshops
DAYTiME Website
STEAM Powered Music
Stem Education uses an interdisciplinary or integrated approach to teach the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This workshop will show how to authentically add the A (Arts – music) to STEM education.
- Get hands on with the design making process
- Look at the Australian Curriculum and how we can link across science, mathematics, design and digital technologies, ending with the summative assessment task ticking of music outcomes
- Examples for junior, middle and upper primary covered
Session Notes: STEAM Powered Music
CREATING EPUBS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM
Learn how to create ePubs using Book Creator and how it is possible for your students to become iBooks authors.
- Create a “What Instrument is this?” sound book
- Rewrite and record children’s songs as picture books
- Combine GarageBand and Book Creator to create an information book about subjects such as Instrument Families
- Jazz up your student’s research projects to include sound and video
- My student’s favourite project… create your own sound icon storybook! See how my students recorded and arranged a 2 bar melody for each Nativity character, creating a Nativity Sound story, imitating the print picture books that come with sound buttons
Session Notes: ePubs in the music classroom
Blog Post: Creating ePubs in the Music Classroom
Blog Post: Digital Portfolios
2017 Workshops
Inventing and coding music instruments with Scratch, Tynker and the Makey Makey
Teach your students to code their own virtual music instrument. Combine your Scratch project with the Makey Makey invention kit and make your very own MIDI instrument.
Latest research shows coding is an important skill to learn in the primary school years and provides opportunities for cross-curricular learning in mathematics, the sciences and The Arts.
Scratch is an online and offline, computer based, coding program used to teach the basics of coding games and apps. Appropriate for grades 3+.
Scratch and Makey Makey Blog Post
Scratch and Makey Makey Session notes
CODING IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM
From coding songs to coding your own instruments. Learn about the difference between computer coding software and coding apps being used in primary schools and how you can effectively and authentically include coding projects in your music program.
We will look at Scratch (computer software), Tynker and Hopscotch (iPad apps), and additional hardware such as the Makey Makey.
Session Notes: Coding in the Music Classroom
SINGLE LESSON GARAGEBAND ACTIVITIES FOR THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM
Are you wanting to include GarageBand into your units of work but don’t want to spend multiple lessons focused on creating a piece of work on the iPad? See how one activity in your lesson can be extended using the iPad. The activities demonstrated focus on dynamics, tempo, rhythm patterns, melodic rhythms, texture, tone colour and form. Examples include how I transformed a drone and pitch map lesson, where I always struggled to get student participation, into an activity my students wanted to repeat time and time again.
Session Notes Single Lesson GarageBand Activities for the primary classroom
CREATING EPUBS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM
Learn how to create ePubs using Book Creator and how it is possible for your students to become iBooks authors.
- Create a “What Instrument is this?” sound book
- Rewrite and record children’s songs as picture books
- Combine GarageBand and Book Creator to create an information book about subjects such as Instrument Families
- Jazz up your student’s research projects to include sound and video
-
My student’s favourite project… create your own sound icon storybook! See how my students recorded and arranged a 2 bar melody for each Nativity character, creating a Nativity Sound story, imitating the print picture books that come with sound buttons
Session Notes: ePubs in the Music Classroom
Previous Workshops
DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS
Digital Portfolios are a fantastic tool for assessment and showcasing student work from formative to summative work samples.
Explain Everything is an App that offers classroom teachers the opportunity to ‘App smash’ bringing together into one file: images, PDFs, word processing files, video and audio files directly from other apps or from cloud storage such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Providing a portfolio of student work in one presentation file.
Other apps shown will be Book Creator a more simple app best used in the junior primary classroom to achieve a similar outcome.
Digital Portfolios: blog post
Digital Portfolios: session notes
10+ MUSIC CODING PROJECTS TO CREATE USING SCRATCH & THE MAKEY MAKEY
Teach your students to code their own virtual music instrument. Combine your Scratch project with the Makey Makey invention kit and make your very own MIDI instrument.
Latest research shows coding is an important skill to learn in the primary school years and provides opportunities for cross-curricular learning in mathematics, the sciences and The Arts.
Scratch is an online and offline, computer based, coding program used to teach the basics of coding games and apps. Appropriate for grades 3+.
Scratch and Makey Makey Blog Post
Scratch and Makey Makey Session notes
COMPOSING AND CREATING IN CODE ON THE iPAD
Hopscotch is a popular, simple classroom coding iPad app used to teach the basics of coding games.
Teach your students that coding can be used to create their own music instrument. Learn how to arrange simple performances to well know songs such as Hot Cross Buns and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as Cheryl walks you through her 8 week unit of work.
Your students will be amazed at what they achieve.
No music experience necessary, a great way to integrate music into your STEAM teaching.
Composing and Creating in Code on the iPad: Blog post
Composing and Creating in Code on the iPad: Session notes
ADDING TECH – REDEFINE THE CURRICULUM RESOURCES SITTING ON YOUR SHELF
Learn how to look at the print resources you already own, or would like to buy, and turn them into an activity using technology. Do you have:
- 1 or more iPads
- An Interactive Whiteboard or a Data Projector
- A computer lab or a trolley of laptops/macbooks
Utilise apps/software/online resources to add depth to your music lesson and bring your activities off the page and onto the screen.
Adding Tech: Session notes
iPADS, IWBs AND RECORDERS
One of the world’s oldest instruments meets one of the world’s newest technologies! Let Cheryl show you where recorders and iPads come together – with the exciting new Bushfire Press program, ‘Recorder Room’. Videos, music tracks, charts and live presenters (well – filmed live), all at your fingertips on the iPad screen. And the students can practise at home to videos and look at the next lesson’s videos as well.. Cheryl will also be demonstrating ‘The Interactive Music Room’ (iPads/IWBs), ‘Music Room Tech’ (iPads), We’re Orff (iPads).
iPad’s, IWB’s and Recorders: Session notes
INTERACTIVE POSTERS
Learn to create and use QR codes and Dropbox as tools for teacher delivery and student projects: delivering content and sharing files. Gain ideas on ways for students to use QR codes in their own projects to add another dimension to their presentations.
Participants will need an iPad and or laptop/macbook, Apps required: Pages and a QR Code reader such as i-nigma. Additional useful apps: Explain Everything, Book Creator.
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