MENZA Events

Music Tech and Tools 101

Join Martin Emo, Menza Digital Kaiārahi, on Wed 15th April For a 30min workshop will cover the following.   – Sound. Including what Microphones to use, what external Sound cards to use, improving your audio, and your student’s audio; – Using keyboards, pianos and pad controllers – Hearing and miking other Acoustic and Electric instruments […]

Flipgrid for music teachers step-by-step – Free webinar

About this free webinar Hey! I’m Katie Wardrobe – an Australian digital learning coach for music teachers. Flipgrid is an awesome free tech tool that allows you to easily collect video responses from students and there are lots of neat tips, techniques and innovative ideas for using it with music students. In this webinar, we’ll […]

Secondary Music Teachers – Chat with NZQA & MoE

Join other Secondary Music Teachers for an informal video chat on Zoom hosted by the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo. We will be joined by: Karen Scott, National Assessment Facilitator, NZQA Delysse Glynn, National Assessment Moderator, NZQA Matthew Stenbo, Senior Secondary Subject Specialist, Ministry of Education After a round of introductions there will be a […]

Soundtrap: An Introduction and Three Activities

Join Martin Emo, Menza Digital Kaiārahi, for a 45min workshop will cover the following:   – Introduction to Soundtrap for beginners – Tips and traps – 3 activities you could do (these could apply to current users of Soundtrap or other DAWs) – The session will end with a Q and A.   To attend, […]

Itinerant Teachers of Music Chat

Join other Itinerant Teachers of Music for an informal video chat on Zoom hosted by the MENZA Digital Kaiārahi, Martin Emo, at 10am this Friday. (Sorry that time doesn’t suit everyone) After a round of introductions there will be a general discussion about how to teach in a digital environment. You are asked to bring […]

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, […]

Developing Musical Literacy – Online and Digital Tools suitable for Intermediate and Secondary teachers.

Developing Musical Literacy – Online and Digital Tools suitable for Intermediate and Secondary teachers. Wed 22nd 10am.   Join Martin Emo, Menza Digital Kaiārahi, for a 45min workshop covering software and websites you could use to support your students theory and harmony learning.   This will include at least – Ableton Learn – Groove Pizza […]

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, […]