It has been my privilege to help Dr Jan McMillan of musicmoments.com, who is about to launch a couple of online courses in piano pedagogy. I moved her website out of Wix and into Thinkific, setting everything up on the front end with a lovely, professional site that is all…
I enjoyed presenting a workshop through the AMEB (WA) on the Rockschool syllabus from a teacher’s perspective on August 22nd. It’s an exciting option, which my piano students are thoroughly enjoying! It was a pleasure to share what I’ve learned over the years, and I hope more teachers consider this…
On 9th April 2021 I presented a workshop at the 2021 WA Piano Pedagogy Conference “Beyond Piano: Studio Teachers’ Professional Development Day” on “Demystifying the Web’. It was aimed at establishing or enhancing an online presence specifically for music teachers, as many teachers do not have a website or any…
I’ve had a number of piano teachers express interest in a Rockschool workshop, so I offered a workshop through the WA Music Teachers’ Association on 27th March 2021.
Having recently started working for the West Australian Music Teachers’ Association (WAMTA) as their Secretary, I’ve also become the Conference Secretary for the WA Piano Pedagogy Conference (WAPPC). So one of the first tasks I’ve undertaken is to build a new website for the WAPPC at wappc.com.au. Previously, the information…
In early 2019 I ran two workshops on Search Engine Optimization for Music Teachers. Interestingly, the majority of attendees didn’t even have a website! So the next workshop I will offer in this space will be about getting started with an online presence…
Social media is very visual these days, with Facebook, Twitter and Google+ all tweaking their layouts to give a more visually rich experience, coupled with the rise of image-focused sites such as Instagram and Pinterest, to name a few. Selecting good, quality images to post on these channels can be…
Social media has matured substantially over the past 14 years, with most users now accepting, and being more likely to trust, social networking as an effective way to communicate. This has led to it becoming easier to use social media to assist with fundraising efforts, both for well planned projects…
Now that the preparations for the two break out sessions I will be presenting in at the 2014 RI Convention in Sydney have been completed, I’ve finally been able to turn my attention back to reinstating the information on this website! I have now put together a CV for my…
So right now there’s not a lot to see here, after I deleted simone.carotcollins.com before first transferring the very limited information that was actually hosted on there (primarily my Rotary resume). Oops. In time I will endeavour to rebuild my 15 odd years of my Rotary resume and links to…