A Brighter Future Through Music Technology Education
This January, I was honored with two incredible awards. Thank you to everyone who has supported Soundteched. I am endlessly grateful and look forward to continuing this important work!
Yamaha 40 Under 40
Excellence in Education
TI:ME Technology
Teacher of the The Year
Music Tech Series
The Yamaha Series includes four separate articles designated to curriculum and resources for elementary, middle school, and high school music technology education. Be on the lookout for future publications here: https://hub.yamaha.com/professional-development/
Magazine Articles
Upcoming Clinics
Upcoming Clinics
October 23-26th, 2024
Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center
Madison, WI
Inclusion Through Creativity: Games, Activities and Projects for Learning Digital Composition at the Middle Level
This session focuses on providing a long-term curriculum structure for integrating digital audio composition apps in a middle school ensemble class. Walk away with ready-made lessons to use with your performing groups for practicing important aspects in composition, remixing, arranging, and recording. Reinforce concepts with easy-to-learn web applications, discover performance technologies for students with disabilities, and explore opportunities for showcasing students’ music within the community.
December 18-21st, 2024
McCormick Place West
Chicago, IL
January 23-25th, 2025
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA
The Future of Audio Education in Primary and Secondary Public Schools
How do we train the next generation of engineers? This session will examine the current climate of public education while highlighting a successful K-12 public school music production and engineering program in the United States. Using the web-based DAW, students starting at the age of 8 are learning essential audio engineering terms, recording techniques, and multi-instrument skills for producing, composing and recording music. Based on a hybrid model, this example curriculum blends fundamental audio engineering skills with state and national standards for music education. Learn how music technology is creating more opportunities for diversity, accessibility and inclusion in public education while fostering students' creativity and excitement for audio engineering.
February 13-15th, 2025
MMEA Midwinter Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Teaching Music Production with Soundtrap (Interactive Workshop)
Engage and excite your students with Soundtrap, a web-based digital audio workstation. This session provides a basic overview of the workstations controls, recording features, virtual instruments, and audio effects. Explore interdisciplinary lessons, essential key terms and projects as well as Soundtrap’s administrative controls for adding users and creating assignments.
Songs, Games, and Projects for Learning Digital Composition (Interactive Workshop)
Learning how to compose using a digital audio workstation (DAW) can be exciting and overwhelming for our students. Simplify music production with songs, games, activities, and projects that will encourage team-building and spark creativity. Supercharge composition projects with web-apps, explore ways of fostering a supportive classroom, and explore new ways of showcasing students music.
Session Title: Audio and MIDI: Electronic Composition in Secondary Education
Session Description: The web-based digital audio workstation (DAW) is becoming an essential tool used in K-12 general music. This session provides a well-balanced sequence for teaching key terms, production techniques, and age-appropriate composition assignments. Along the way, students will engage in fun STEAM-based learning games and activities, collaborate on career-based projects, and develop their knowledge of music with reflective practice.
Session Title: Teaching Music Production with Soundtrap
Session Description: Engage and excite your students with Soundtrap, a web-based digital audio workstation. This session provides a basic overview of the workstations controls, recording features, virtual instruments, and audio effects. Explore interdisciplinary lessons, essential key terms and projects as well as Soundtrap’s administrative controls for adding users and creating assignments.
Session Title: Teaching Digital Music Composition with Noteflight
Session Description: Learning to write music with digital notation can be challenging for young students. This session merges music production and music theory pedagogy to outline a series of engaging and relevant lessons for beginning composers. Learn how to utilize Noteflight’s key features, navigate admin controls, and integrate with music production web-apps
Giving every student equal access to making music.
Digital composition tools are an easy way to bring music into a classroom of students who consider technology as essential as breathing. Music technology is the glue that connects instrumental/compositional technique to the sound students understand and relate to. This technology includes audio-making software that lets every student, regardless of musical ability, explore valuable learning partnerships and author his or her own musical experience. Tools encourage design thinking through students’ natural curiosity, and encourage new forms of problem solving through recreating and invention.
Maplewood Public Schools, Maplewood, MN
Students use Launchpads alongside Ableton Live to create their own arrangements, as well as condenser microphones to record their own raps and songs using Soundtrap
Hanover Public Middle School, Hanover, MA
Students learn about the history of hip hop and try their hand at an interactive turntable!
Pioneer Charter School of Science, Boston, MA
Using MIDI compatible Casio keyboards students are learning basic chord structure to then transfer into the DAW.
Past Clinics
Past Clinics
September 6th-8th, 2023
International Conference
Hasselt, Belgium
Keynote Presentation: The Future of Audio Education in Primary and Secondary Public Schools
How do we train the next generation of engineers? This session will examine the current climate of public education while highlighting a successful K-12 public school music production and engineering program in the United States. Using the web-based DAW, students starting at the age of 8 are learning essential audio engineering terms, recording techniques, and multi-instrument skills for producing, composing and recording music. Based on a hybrid model, this example curriculum blends fundamental audio engineering skills with state and national standards for music education. Learn how music technology is creating more opportunities for diversity, accessibility and inclusion in public education while fostering students' creativity and excitement for audio engineering.
August 7th, 15th & 22nd, 2023
Educator Certification Course
Using Soundtrap to Facilitate Problem Solving and Collaborative Skills in the Classroom - August 7th (6:00-7:00pm)
Customizing Soundtrap for You and Your Students Needs - August 15th (6:00-7:00pm)
Creating Meaningful Assessments with Soundtrap - August 22nd (6:00-7:00pm)
April 25th, 2023
Spring Webinar Series
Loops, Beats and Producing Music with Soundtrap for EDU - April 25th (4:00-5:00pm)
March 3rd, 2024
Virtual Clinic
Peoria, IL
Audio and MIDI: Electronic Composition in Secondary Education - March 3rd (9:30-10:30 & 12:30-1:30pm)
The web-based digital audio workstation (DAW) is becoming an essential tool used in K-12 general music. This session provides a well-balanced sequence for teaching key terms, production techniques, and age-appropriate composition assignments. Along the way, students will engage in fun STEAM-based learning games and activities, collaborate on career-based projects, and develop their knowledge of music with reflective practice.
February 8-11th, 2024
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio, TX
Music Production in General Music: Songs, Games, Activities and Creative Projects for Learning the DAW - February 8th (1:45-2:45pm)
Digital composition can be difficult for active learners. Incorporate movement in your classroom with songs, games, activities and projects that will target key terms, encourage team-building and spark creativity. Supercharge composition projects with web-apps, learn strategies for supporting classroom positivity and explore opportunities for showcasing student’s music within the community.
K-12 Materials for Learning
Here you will find music technology education materials for grades K-12. Focusing on DAW music composition, these lessons cover important concepts in recording, engineering, music theory, harmony/arranging, history and instrument technique appropriate for each skill level. Lesson presentations, materials and project templates are available here as well.
Continuing Education for Teachers
Here are resources for upcoming technology clinics and teacher technology programs. From training on the latest technology to new pedagogical methods, these sessions will help you make your music classroom more engaging and successful.
Support for Communities
Education happens within the context of a larger community. Our approach extends beyond the school to help ensure students have the necessary support to do their best learning.
Gillian is the type of educator that will challenge tradition, and in turn, change music education. She is a rising star in the music field.
— Dr. Matthew Westgate (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Your presentation was one of the best at this year's conference, and one of the most interesting and exciting presentations I've seen."
— Brian Clinkenbeard (North Central College)
"I attended the Illinois Music Educators Conference in Peoria, Illinois and absolutely loved your workshop!"
— Carolyn Wehr (Illinois State University)
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