school music blog

1. Blogging and social
media for schools.
Jackie Schneider
November 2013

2. 3 good reasons
• To improve the teaching and learning
• To improve relationships
• For my own professional development

3. Improves learning
• provides world wide stage
• allows for detailed differentiation
• makes kids independent learners
• keeps work alive between lessons
• gives children ‘genuine’ voice
• gives children access to musicians

4. Builds relationships
• with children
• with other class teachers
• with parents
• with interested musicians and music
educators

5. My CPD
• repository of courses/workshops etc
• learning journal
• collection of resources in one place
• feedback from kids

6. Know what you want it
for. Everything else
follows from that.

7. How to get started
• Talk to your head/SMT and tackle e-safety
• Search the blogosphere
• Make contact with other blogging teachers

8. Great free tools
• Primary Blogger
• Audioboo/Soundcloud
• Youtube/Vimeo
• Photopeach
• Twitter
• Pinterest

9. Top tips
• little and often
• use creative commons - don’t steal!
• make blog part of school life
• pictures, picture, pictures!

10. Beaumont School Music

11. Uphall Primary School

12. Hayes School Music

13. St Teresa’s music matters

14. Next steps
• get some professionals to adopt our blog
• learn from David Mitchells “quad” blogging
• build up blogroll

15. contact me
• Jackieschneider.mail@gmail.com
• @jackieschneider (twitter)
• St Teresa’s Music Matters