Welcome to the Music Technology Teacher Network

The Music Technology Teacher Network was created out of a desire to provide advocacy for Music Technology programs for students in grades 6-12 and to support educators who are providing the instruction in this rapidly expanding and relatively new field of music education.

Despite the widely available resources for learning the technical aspects of working with DAWs, notation software, recording techniques, microphones and other software and hardware in the field of music technology, finding practical resources for developing lesson plans, utilization and application of the NAfME music technology standards, the ability to collaborate with other music technology teachers and find engaging and relevant activities required much effort and time that most educators do not have. Music Technology Teacher Network seeks to provide an easy to navigate resource that puts answers and activities within a few clicks for teachers in the music technology classroom/lab.

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Two Levels of Membership

Basic Membership

A Basic Membership plan is free of charge and requires only that you create a member login profile. Basic Membership includes:

• Access to the Advocacy Page

  • Data supporting creation and support of music technology programs

  • Tips and strategies for communicating with administrators, stake holders and decision makers

  • Ideas for potential funding sources for establishing a music technology program

• Lesson Plan Bank

  • Access to lesson plan ideas and descriptions that are aligned with the NAfME music technology standards.

• Web Resources

  • Links and reviews of many available web resources including

    • Professional organizations

    • Online music & sound generators

    • Apps & extensions

    • SFX, foley & video libraries

    • Instructional & activity resources

• Equipping your classroom

  • Ideas, plans and reviews on how to equip your music lab

    • Basic, limited budget set-ups

    • Building a foundation with a plan for long term development

    • Professional, industry standard equipment

Premium Membership

Premium Memberships are $99 and renewable on a yearly basis *(discounts available, see bottom). Premium members receive all of the access and benefits of a Basic Membership plus:

• Lesson Plan Library

  • The lesson plan library is a collection of step by step lesson plans that are aligned to the NAfME music technology standards.

    • Lesson plans are google docs that can be copied as word documents or .pdfs for teachers to use in class or submit to admin.

    • Formatted lesson plan templates for each standard that include the dispositions, knowledge and skills for that standard. Simply fill in your procedure then delete the dispositions, knowledge and skills that will not be covered in the lesson.

    • Lesson plans include links to supplemental videos, websites, handouts or worksheets that are part of the lesson.

    • The lesson plan library currently has over 40 lesson plans with more lessons being added weekly.

• MuTechTeacherPros

  • Weekly MuTechTeacherPro blogs

    • Each week a new blog will be posted from one of our Pros covering a wide range of topics relevant to the music tech classroom

    • Submit questions or comments to the blogs to get ideas, answers or just "pick their brains"

    • Email our Pros directly if you prefer

  • MuTechTeacherPro brief bios

    • Heath Jones, Founder & Executive Editor

      • Focus: middle school mutech curriculum, instruction and assessment; professional development and consultant

      • Software and Apps: GarageBand, Soundtrap, Noteflight, Google Classroom

      • Certified Soundtrap Expert and Educator; Certified Level 1 Google Educator

    • David Dover, Contributing Editor

      • Focus: middle school curriculum and instruction; composing and arranging

      • Software and Apps: GarageBand, Soundtrap, Finale

      • Certified Soundtrap Expert and Educator

    • Wayne Langford, Contributing Editor

      • Focus: Instructional technology specialist, technology integration, learning management systems, audio production and recording

      • Software and Apps: you name it and Wayne probably knows it...

      • Digital learning presenter and consultant across Georgia and the Georgia TechEd Conference

• Collaboration

  • Teacher forum where members can post questions & ideas to the network community

  • Access to webinars and professional development opportunities

• Request or Contribute Content

  • Premium members may submit requests for specific topics for our blog section or other content. We will do our best to meet those requests or provide referrals for other resources to go to.

  • Submit lesson plans or other content to be added to the page. If you have a lesson plan that you would like to share or some other content that you think would be useful for our members, you can submit those ideas to our editors for consideration.

*Discounts

50% discount is available to 1st time subscribers or to TI:ME members (discounts may not be combined). The TI:ME member discount is available annually as long as your TI:ME membership is also renewed.

Email: heath@mutechteachernet.com for details and code