Tag: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers

Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers, Revisited

I will be presenting a session at the NJMEA Conference this week titled Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers. In preparation for this presentation, I have revisited this topic on my podcast with similar content to make it quickly accessible in the feed for attendees of the session.

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I’m presenting at TMEA 2023

Hello! I am pleased to say I am presenting at the Texas Music Educators Association conference next month. Will you be there? If so, I hope you will check out one of my two sessions.

Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers – Wednesday, February 8 @ 4:15 pm, Room CC 214B

Teaching Intonation with Tonal Energy – Friday, February 10 @ 11:30 am, Room CC 216

Stay tuned to the blog for complementary session notes and links.

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The Music Ed Tech Talk Holiday Gift Guide, featuring Dr. David MacDonald

David MacDonald joins Robby to share their favorite books, hardware, apps, services, and musical gift ideas.

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Show Notes:

Books

Hardware

More Hardware

Software

Services

Misc

Music of the Week

Robby – Sarah Jarosz

David – Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Tech Tip of the Week

Robby – Focus Modes

David – CopyChar.cc

Where to Find Us:

Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book

David – Twitter | Website | Blog

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#43 – iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, with Paul Shimmons

Paul Shimmons returns to the show to talk about the features in Apple’s new operating system updates, and how we plan to use them.

Patreon subscribers get a bootleg version of the recording, without the ads, and including bonus conversation about notation apps on iPad.

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App of the Week

Paul – Ultimate Drill Book

Robby – Sofa

Music of the Week

Paul – Powerhouse – White Heart

Robby – Cory Henry – Best of Me

Where to Find Us:

Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book

Paul – Twitter | Website

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The Prime Directive, featuring Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein (Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast #32)

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Description

Ethan and Will join the show to talk about their book Electronic Music School, the Prime Directive, writing apps, and the future of the iPad.

Thanks to this week’s sponsor, the DMV Percussion Academy. Leran more and registere here.

Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Intro
  • 00:01:25 – Sponsor: DMV Percussion Academy
  • 00:02:03 – Star Trek
  • 00:04:18 – Electronic Music School
  • 00:10:09 – Teaching Underlying Musical Concepts of Electronic Music Styles
  • 00:18:33 – Perceived Threat by Traditional Performing Arts Teachers
  • 00:24:28 – Teaching Songwriting
  • 00:27:23 – Scaffolding
  • 00:37:15 – Fighting Racism with Music Education
  • 00:48:37 – The Prime Directive
  • 00:52:34 – Staying Relevant?
  • 01:07:15 – We Live on Twitter
  • 01:07:15 – Writing Apps
  • 01:13:21 – Bedtime
  • 01:16:07 – The M1 iPad Pro
  • 01:35:51 – Tech Tip of the Week
  • 01:38:14 – Album of the Week
  • 01:41:07 – App of the Week
  • 01:43:24 – Closing

Show Notes:

App of the Week:
Robby – Tot
Will – In Haler Radio
Ethan – Figure

Album of the Week:
Robby – Tauk – Shapeshifter II: Outbreak
Will – Suburban Lawns – Janitor (Original Video)
Ethan – Clipping – The Deep

Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book
Will – Twitter | Website
Ethan – Twitter | Website

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🎙 forScore for the Mac, featuring David MacDonald (Music Ed Tech Talk #31)

Robby and David talk about forScore for the Mac and its new syncing feature. But also, lots of music theory.

Also included:

  • Loop-based music theory

  • GoodNotes for the Mac

  • Transcribe Apps

  • Lots of music apps and utility apps

  • Tech podcasts we like

  • Music YouTubers we like

  • Our favorite music, tech tips, and albums of the week

Show Notes:

App of the Week: 

Robby – Soro for Sonos
David MacDonald – Diagrams

Album of the Week:

Robby – Lettuce – Elevate
David MacDonald – Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Brooklyn Babylon 

Where to Find Us:

Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald – Twitter | Website

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🎙 METT Episode #28 – Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely

Robby explains the software, hardware, and teaching strategies he uses to run engaging and effective music rehearsals in a remote or hybrid environment.

This information was presented earlier this month at the Maryland Music Educators Association conference. The notes and links below are from the session notes of that presentation.

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Abstract

Learn the strategies and technologies to run engaging synchronous rehearsals. Engage students visually and speed up your flow using Open Broadcasting Software. Pump the sound video/music/play-along tracks directly through Zoom or Google Meet for a lag-free experience. Explore play along with resources, student reflection with Google Docs, effective camera/mic practices, and have students working collaboratively in synchronous chamber ensembles with Soundtrap! Software discussed includes: Keynote, Google Slides, Loopback, Soundsource, Farrago, AnyTune, Soundtrap, Smartmusic!

Broadcasting Software

Audio Routing

Making Play Along Tracks

Visual Presentation

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🎙 Music Ed Tech Talk #27 – Catching Up With Shawna Longo, with Shawna Longo

Shawna Longo joins the show to talk about our hybrid teaching gear, social emotional learning, cloud-based music tools, and our favorite apps/albums/tech tips of the week.

Topics include:

  • COVID hybrid teaching strategies
  • Teaching hardware (on a cart!)
  • Teaching performance virtually
  • social emotional learning
  • music tools in the cloud
  • the Canvas mastery grade book

Show Notes:

Tech Tips of the Week:
Robby – Command+K (or Control+K) will create a hyperlink
Shawna – Mute All for Google Meet | Use AirPod mic as input in Google Meet

App of the Week:
Robby – TIDAL
Shawna – Scannable

Album of the Week:
Robby – Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
Shawna – Happiness Begins – The Jonas Brothers

Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book
Shawna – Twitter | Website

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Tech Tips for Musicians and Teachers, with David MacDonald – (Facebook Live, February 21 at 5 pm EST)

I will be going on Facebook Live with composer David MacDonald on Sunday at 5 pm EST. We are going to be discussing tech that we have recently been using in our respective music teaching jobs.

Follow me on Facebook and tune in here.

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Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software (Session Notes) – TMEA 2021 | Saturday, February 13

Are you coming to my TMEA session, Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software today? It starts at 3 pm! Here are the session notes which include links to all of the software mentioned in the presentation.

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