Steve Giddings

New order of Mikey books came in! Getting ready for some upcoming events.

#mikeyverse #mikeysplace #mikeysplacebook #illustration #childrensliterature

Check this out—you get one 5-card mini pack for $10 and you could pull a single card worth $12 or more!

This pack had 1 common, 3 less common, and 1 rare card. Other packs could have an ultra-rare! Can't wait until AEX in Charlottetown.

#mikeysplacebook #tcgcommunity #mikeyverse #tcgpokémon

Activity of The Week

Project a trailer of the movie, turn the sound off, press play and count off. Try as many as you have time for (even if they are an obviously ridiculous choice)!

#musicedtiptuesday #hottaketuesmused #activityoftheweek

An exciting new partnership with the folks at Empire Music Canada. You can now purchase Steve's Music Room and Kids Division resources. Use their code at the checkout for 10% off your purchase!

Order from here: empiremusic.ca/fr/blogs/quo...

#mikeybook #rockcoach #creativemusicking #musedtech

In the last 36 hours I able to:
- conceptualize a new product line.
- design new product line.
- order new product line.
- design labelling.
- order labelling.
- order packaging.
- source it all from within Canada.

#smallbusinessownerlife #mikeysplacebook #mikeyverse #supportcanadian

If all the music notation in the world disappeared and there were no sheets, no staff, no tab or anything, how would your practice as a music teacher change?

What about in band, orchestra, or choir?

#musicedtiptuesday #hottaketuesmused
#musiced #teachingmusic

Music classes should be more like art classes. Playing the rep in large groups is important, but so is creating and if we don't make time for it every day, it is less likely to happen.

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It's important that students are given the opportunity to make their own original music in some form during every music class. It can be so easy to fall into "rehearse-the-rep" mode.

#teachingmusic

🎉 Award news!
Thrilled to announce that Mikey’s Place received Honourable Mention in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards. Recognized in Picture Books (5 & Younger) and Picture Books (6 & Older).

#RoyalDragonflyBookAwards #StoryMonstersInk #ChildrensBooks #PictureBooks #SEL #ReadAloud #mikeyverse

I'll be presenting at ISME in Montreal during the very first K-12 Symposium as part of the conference. Who's with me? Would love to be able to meet some folks there.

#musiced #teachingmusic #musedchat #musicedconference #musiceducation #isme2026

Discuss:

Should we be playing the music of musicians with controversial pasts? Why or why not?

What if students are requesting it?

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Episode 4 of Mikey's Place Low-Budget Comic. Every microphone's dreaded moment.
#mikeysplacebook #mikeyverse #mikeysplacecomic

Introducing Mike with an "e".

Sometimes, as an Island author, I feel as though I need to cater my products to tried-and-true island characters to get any traction. Certainly this would sell some books?

Just wait until you meet Guitbert Fife!
#mikeysplacebook #mikeyverse #islandauthor

Got a new toy. My first attempt at a digital drawing of Mikey and Guitar using a Huion Inspiroy 2 drawing tablet and Adobe Fresco.
#mikeyverse #MikeyArt #mikeysplacebook #illustration

It's important to specify which standard or tradition you mean. There are at least 5 major music notational systems in regular use just in North America alone. All of which are either considered traditional or standard in their respective contexts.
#musicnotation #musiceducation #musiced

Mikey's Place Low-Budget Comic Strip. #3.
The bass dropped.

#MikeyArt #childrensbooks #comicstrip

You got it!

Hot Take Time:

Discuss!

#hottaketuesmused #musiced #musicteaching

The second episode of the Low-Budget Mikey Comic Strip.
Trombone realizes that their slide is stuck. It isn't a very good slide then is it?
#mikeysplacebook #lowbudgetcomic
#musiced

I was caught in the wild at @omeaontario chatting about big ideas and having great conversation.

I did survive and came out unscathed.

Discuss:
Music theory is best understood as the art of description; not a set of rules for composing.

#musiced #musedchat #musicteaching

A few days until the Bluefield Craft Fair. Have you figured out, yet, what the new thing is?
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ART PRINTS OF THE MIKEY UNIVERSE!!
Hang 'em!
Frame 'em!
Collect 'em all!

11 prints available in 4x4, 8x8 and 8x10. And only in limited supply! Get them while their hot!

#mikeysplacebook

Are you ready @omeaontario teachers? 3 presentations over the next 2 days. It's gonna be a time.
#omeaharmony2025 #musiced #teachingmusic

What do you think about this chart and the accompanying quote?

When thinking about music literacy, music should be learned as if it were a language, but it is not a language in the literal sense

How do you teach musical literacy skills in your classrooms?

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#musiceducation
#musicliteracy

I'll be in Toronto this week taking in the OMEA's Harmony 2025.

See you at:
1. Exploring Creative Music Technology: BandLab and Soundtrap
2. What Makes a Literate Musician in a Modern Age?
3. Building Inclusive, Curriculum-Aligned Contemporary Music Programs

#musiced #Harmony2025

Check out the new catalogue.
#Musiced #musicedconference #musicresources #musiceducation #popmused #musedtech #iteachmusic

Situation 1:
Every student gets access to music on a rotating basis throughout the year.

Situation 2:
Students can opt to take a music class that runs all year. This means that some students would not be taking music classes.

#musiced #teachingmusic #musiceducation #iteachmusic

For after it's laminated. I can label them with a black dry-erase marker as needed.

I designed this poster through Canva and ordered it in a custom size through Jukebox. Simple design but super effective. Having a keyboard visual that can be laminated and posted in any music classroom at any level is useful for understanding how music works.

#keyboard #musiceducation #musiced

Get ready for some feels. This time pictures literally speak a thousand words.
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Having kids choose the music helps kids stay engaged in the music making.

Create a Google and then show how to search for music at their level on whatever site you use to order the music, and have them search and suggest material.

#MusicEdTipTuesday #musiced #teachingmusic