May 14, 2020
Kia ora tātou
For some of you, Monday will find you teaching students face-to-face in your classroom. I hope you find time over this weekend to take a short break, as it’s been a long term already if you spent your last holidays getting ready to teach online! I’m still going to run online workshops/chats but need to know when the best time will be. Also I’m interested in knowing what topics you want me to cover. 1min survey here.
Summary to 15th May 2020
Join me this afternoon at 3:30pm for an informal debrief on what you’ve been doing for the last 7 weeks.
The July edition of Tune Me In, the MENZA magazine is looking for articles. Do you have something to share? Deadline is 25th May.
General (for all Music Levels)
NZ Music month is in full swing. Check out more details here.
The MENZA ITM working group has created some guidelines for ITMs heading into schools.
Shane has added some more links from the MoE for Health and Safety at schools.
Tips for cleaning instruments.
Mike is looking for 1 or 2 sentence responses about what activities/resources you were forced to use due to Covid-19.
The Contemporary Music Course is offering its’ online composition and theory resource for free.
Melodics is free to NZ school teachers. It supported keyboard, electronic drums and pad drumming (launchpads etc).
Showquest is now on screen for 2020.
David shared a great online resource, Teaching Rock.
Mary shared some of her resources now adapted for online.
Secondary
This is a thread on combining Achievement standards across subjects.
Professional Development and Events
NZ Music Summit 23rd May 10-4pm.
Chamber Music NZ have online coaching available.
All of the videos and digital handouts from my Menza Digital Kaiārahi workshops are up on the Menza website.
Ngā mihi
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Martin Emo
TKI Arts Online Community Facilitator
