Friend and colleague, Lori Schwartz Reichl, joins the show to talk about student and teacher engagement, the up-sides of teaching private lessons remotely, broadening her teaching career beyond the classroom, the Institute for Composer Diversity, and much more!

Show Notes:

–Lori’s website – Making Key Changes

-Zoom – Recording both sides of the conversation as two separate audio tracks

–Peloton 

–Peloton App

–Joanna Stern – Laptop webcam showdown

–https://makingkeychanges.com/reflection

–Lori’s YouTube Page

–Mirror Mirror on the Wall. . . Am I Providing Opportunities Reflecting All? | NAfME Blog | by Lori Schwartz Reichl

–A Personal and Professional Pivot – Make it Simple, Not Stressful | NAfME Blog | by Lori Schwartz Reichl

–Andrew Hitz 

–Music Ed Tech Talk – #4 – The Most Validating Day of my Life, with Andrew Hitz

–Institute for Composer Diversity

–Regional Repertory Wind Ensemble

–Tyler Grant

– NAfME’s Music in a Minute Blog, Lori’s Appearances

An opportunity from Lori:

“I’m thrilled to join our co-founders of Women Banding Together”

(Virginia Allen, Laura Johnson, and Jenny L. Neff) as we host our inaugural panel discussion:

”Transitioning with Resilience“ – on Monday, May 18 at 3:00 pm ET via Zoom.

RSVP for Zoom details at here.

App of the Week: 

Robby – LumaFusion 

Lori – Acapella 

Album of the Week:

Robby – Nate Smith: Light and Shadows

Lori Reichl – “One Voice”: A Holiday Presentation by The United States Army Field Band

Where to Find Us:

Lori Reichl: YouTube | Website 

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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This week, Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons join my show. We catch up on recent news in music ed tech, discuss what we are doing for distance learning, and then discuss how we have been using the new StaffPad for iPadOS app.

View the show notes here or listen below.

Chris and Paul, co-hosts of the Music Education & Technology Podcast, rejoin the show to talk about how we are doing for distance learning, StaffPad for iPadOS, and other recent news in music technology education.

Show Notes:

• dear music teachers… please stop asking how to create a virtual choir video | Midnight Music

• Virtualchoir.net – Keep singing, keep sharing. Start your virtual ensemble.

• Noteflight 

• MusicFirst

• Flat.io 

• smartmusic 

• PracticeFirst

• Cubasis 3

• Music Ed Tech Talk | #6 – Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald

• New iPad Magic Keyboard

• forScore

• iPad Apps You Love, Now on Mac

• GoodNotes 5

• SwiftUI 

• FileMaker Pro

• StaffPad for iPadOS

• Notion

• Komp

• Symphony Pro

• Ferrite Recording Studio

• StaffPad Reader

• Music Notation on iPad and Musicals | iPad and Technology in Music Ed

• First Impressions of StaffPad for iPadOS | Robby Burns

• StaffPad Comes to iPadOS (Reflections on App Store Pricing and Touch Screen Operating Systems) | Robby Burns

• A Revolution and Turning of the Tide – Music Creation is Changing for the Better with StaffPad for iOS! | iPad and Technology in Music Ed

• Working with StaffPad | Technology in Music Education

• Dorico

• Planning Center

• Reason

• ReWire 

• Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration

• unrealBook

• My Very Straightforward and Very Successful Setup for Teaching Virtual Private Lessons | Robby Burns

• PDF Expert

• PencilKit

• MindNode

• Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly

• Louis Cole

• Knower

• Childish Gambino

• The Jive Aces on Britains Got Talent

• Animal Crossing

• iCab Mobile – iPad web browsers that can download YouTube videos

App of the Week: 

Robby – Slack

Paul – Cubasis 3

Chris – LumaFusion

Album of the Week:

Robby – It Is What It Is | Thundercat

Paul – You and I | Wycliffe Gordon and Marty Erickson 

Chris –

Bring Me Sunshine | The Jive Aces

Yesterday | Billie Eilish

Where to Find Us:

Paul Shimmons: Twitter | Website 

Chris Russell: Twitter | Website

Robby Burns: Twitter| Blog

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Julianna Mateyko, Director of Support and Training for MusicFirst, joins the show to give me customer support. Other topics include: teaching music remote, quarantined lifestyles, Instacart, and cute life-simulator games as a form of escapism in the age of COVID. Also, our favorite albums and apps of the week.

Show Notes:

– MusicFirst

– Jim Frankel – Director of MusicFirst

– Animal Crossing

– Sharing Apple Notes

– Instacart

– Doordash

– Sign In With Apple

– SAMR Model for Technology (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) … Julianna refers to this as the three levels of technology in the episode

– Soundtrap

– Noteflight 

– Barbara Freedman (Website) (Twitter)

– Zoom 

– MusicFirst Customer Support Page

– Google Chrome

– MusicFirst iOS App

– O-Generator for iOS

– Soundtrap for iOS

– Spotify

– Musictheory.net

– In Tune Monthly

– type “yourdomainhere/support/userguide” to get to the user guides

– type “yourdomainhere/support/tutorials” to view the video guides 

– Icon Factory

App of the Week: 

Robby – Tot – An elegant, simple way to collect & edit text on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Julianna Mateyko – Stardew Valley

Album of the Week:

Robby – 3.15.20 by Childish Gambino

Julianna Mateyko – covers and more – A Spotify playlist of covers brought to you by Julianna

Where to Find Us:

Julianna Mateyko: Twitter

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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