Media Creation for Music Educators – Level 1

We know students learn best when they take in information via multiple modalities, and it has been shown that the use of colorful and well-designed images and videos when teaching can help make content relevant for students and help them gain deeper understanding. Along with using existing media, learning to create and customize your own lesson content that supports your specific curricular goals will help spark your students’ interest and amplify their learning. This 4-week online course is for all music educators, and will focus primarily on two free and easy-to-use image and video creation tools: Canva for Education and Loom, a cloud-based screencasting tool. Other apps that can be used in conjunction with Canva and Loom will be discussed. Come learn how easy it is to quickly and effectively design media content for your lessons that will personalize your teaching and enrich your students’ learning!

Course Details

This course will introduce you to image and video design concepts that will be applied directly to the development of your own lesson content, with the intent to bring these new resources into your teaching.

Course Dates:

June Cohort: June 6 – July 3, 2022

Course Details

This course will introduce you to image and video design concepts that will be applied directly to the development of your own lesson content, with the intent to bring these new resources into your teaching.

In this 4-week course, participants will learn to:

• Easily navigate the Canva and Loom interfaces
• Design and create a variety of image-based resources that can be used independently or integrated with other teaching tools, such as Google Workspace.
• Record and edit video using built-in audio and video features of your computer or Chromebook
• Design and record tutorial videos suited to your specific curricular needs
• Add interactivity to screencast videos using EdPuzzle
• Save and share video in a variety of ways