Who better to create music theory and aural apps than me?

Mark Elshout

By Mark Elshout
Community contribution / November 20, 2014

I am a music teacher of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program, working at a Japanese International School that embodies technology, and is proud of it’s substantial classroom technology programme, that includes iPads amongst other devices.

The school is currently transitioning from a practical music program, purely made up of ensemble rehearsals, to a program that ...

This story appeared in the Term 4, 2014 edition of TechnologyEd.

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