Professional Development in Music and Movement

Come and explore how to facilitate singing, storytelling, poetry, movement and playing instruments in an integrated way into your classroom programmes. In the April school holidays, ONZA (Orff New Zealand Aotearoa) is offering teacher training 6-day courses in music and movement. This course is aimed at specialist and generalist teachers working in early childhood, primary, […]

LOOM – How to make short screen videos

LOOM is a free desktop and browser tool to capture what you do on your screen. You can include yourself in the corner via a video camera. The audio can also be captured from whatever you are running in the computer, eg Software or Browser tabs, along with a microphone.   Save yourself time and […]

Music Tech Part 2: Common issues and questions solved

Join other music educators using new music technology for an informal video chat on Zoom hosted by the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo. Following on from the recent Music Tech workshop this is a chance to ask questions that you may now have as you start to use music technology. Bring your questions.   These […]

Primary Music Specialist Chat#2: Realistic Whole School Activities.

Join other Primary Music Specialists for an informal video chat on Zoom hosted by the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo.   The purpose of this chat is to share ideas around realistic whole school activities. Please bring an idea and a question to share.   These will be collated during the event and shared with […]

Music Education Canterbury AGM

Music Education Canterbury has its 2020 AGM in a different format this year. Yes, it's  Zoom meeting. That means we won't notice if you attend in your slippers. We look forward to hearing a beautiful clarinet item from the MEC CSM scholarship winner Ryan Hong followed by an enlightening and efficient AGM. We ask that […]

Ableton Live – An Introduction

Join the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo, for an introduction to Ableton Live.   With a free 90 day fully functioning trial, it’s a great time to jump into using Ableton. If you’ve always wondered why it’s the most-used Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), come along to this introduction.   Access the free trial here https://www.ableton.com/en/trial/ […]

Itinerant Teachers of Music Chat#2: Questions and Exams

Join other Itinerant Teachers of Music for a 30min video chat on Zoom hosted by the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo, at 3pm on Thursday 7th May.    The purpose of this chat is to follow up the earlier discussion about teaching online. There will also be representatives from NZMEB, St Cecilia and Trinity College […]

Doing what you do….but in a Digital Environment

Join Martin Emo, the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi in a workshop on “Doing what you do but in a Digital Environment” This is focused on producers and performers of music to ECE and Primary-aged kids, especially those that are members of the Kiwi Kids Music Collective NZ. The workshop will include - Gaps present in home […]

Friday Debrief

Join other teachers of Music for a 30min video chat on Zoom hosted by the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo.   The purpose of this chat is to debrief the weeks of online teaching so far, and share your successes and disasters!   Feel free to bring a drink. The session will not be recorded, […]

Bands & Practical ideas for 0-2yrs of Instrument Tuition

Do you teach bands or ensembles with students with a beginning knowledge of their instrument? This could be in upper primary, intermediate or lower secondary schools in a classroom or as an extracurricular activity.   The focus of this chat is on sharing ideas, tips and resources that you use to teach students in groups […]

Getting audio tracks out of a Digital Audio Workstation

Saving, downloading and sharing. You got your students to make a track using a Digital Audio Workstation, but now what do you do with the audio? How do you save it or share it? If you teach NCEA, how do you ensure you can mark it? This workshop is for any teacher and outlines how […]

Young recorder virtuoso goes for Baroque

Arts Centre, Christchurch

Young gun musician Lily Doak has earned a soloist spot in two prestigious classical music concerts, where she is keen to show what her favourite instrument, the recorder, can do. The University of Canterbury (UC)’s School of Music presents Together Again in The Great Hall of the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora on 22 […]

Teacher Training in Music Technology MUSIC & VIDEO PRODUCTION Christchurch

St Andrew's College Christchurch, New Zealand

Producing quality videos for online submissions As a result of COVID19 many school competitions such as Rockquest and the Chamber Music NZ Competition are now inviting video submissions of school bands and ensembles. ​While these competitions don't require a top quality studio recording of your school groups, wouldn't it be nice to know how to get […]

MISTEC CONFERENCE (Music in Schools and Teacher Education)

ISME Music In Schools and Teacher Education Commission (MISTEC) Online Synchronous Forums Due to COVID-19, the seminar will be delivered as a series of four online synchronous forums. ​To attend, you need to be an ISME member and to register by 15th July. https://www.isme-commissions.org/mistec.html The 23rd International Pre-Conference Seminar of the Music in Schools and […]