Music Ed Tech Talk

Dr. Christopher Cicconi, Assistant Professor of Music Education, and Director of Bands and Orchestra at Towson University, joins the show to talk about selecting meaningful repertoire for your ensemble. We also talk about score study with iPad Pro apps, involving yourself in your music teaching community, and yes, I go on a tangent about my favorite new weather app. Show Notes: My Favorite Tech page forScore LumaFusion Tonal Energy Tuner GoodNotes Alex Shapiro Putting the E- in E-nsemble Composer Diversity Database Kaitlin Bove - Dr. Bove's Virtual Courses App of the Week:  Robby - Weather Line and Carrot Weather Chris - Fidelity Album of the Week: Robby - Trust in the Life-force of the Deep Mystery - The Comet Is Coming Chris - Game of Thrones Highlights - Spotify Playlist | Mad Max: Fury Road Soundtrack Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Chris - Towson University Profile Page Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others! Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Subscribe to the Blog Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS Thanks to my sponsor this month, MusicFirst.

Thanks to my sponsor this month, MusicFirst David MacDonald returns to the show to talk about the hardware and software in our virtual teaching setups. Then we speculate about touchscreen Macs and consider how Apple's recent App Store policies might impact the future of creative professional software on iOS. Topics include: New Zoom features for musicians and teachers David and Philip Rothman's new podcast, Scoring Notes Using Open Broadcaster Software to level up your virtual teaching Routing audio from your apps into Zoom and Google Meet calls Teaching with Auralia LMS integration with third-party music education apps Using MainStage and Logic for performing instruments into virtual classrooms Touchscreen Macs Apple's App Store Policy Show Notes: Optimize Your Zoom Settings for Music Teaching and Performing! | Music Ed Tech Talk Better music experiences come to Zoom with high fidelity audio | Scoring Notes My Online Teaching Setup (High-Tech Edition) | Music Ed Tech Talk My Very Straightforward and Very Successful Setup for Teaching Virtual Private Lessons Will Kuhn Electronic Music School on Twitch... with Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein Open Broadcaster Softwarehttps://obsproject.com/ Virtual Cam for Mac AirServer How can I use AirServer for Mac with OBS Reflector Hyper-Charging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software | Music Ed Tech Talk Teaching Tech: Live keyboard overlay in Zoom | This Page Left Intentionally Useless Loopback Virtual Midi Piano Keyboard app (Free) Rogue Amoeba's amazing audio apps for Mac Farrago soundboard app Fission audio editing app IDAGIO Izotope RX Plugins Mac Power Users - #531: Teaching with GoodNotes, with David MacDonald East West Composer Cloud - subscribe to plugins Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast - #5 - Yours In Quarantine, featuring Julianna Mateyko, Director of Support and Training with MusicFirst Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast - #13 - Exploring Noteflight Learn, with John Mlynczak Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast - #12 - Making Music and Podcasts Using Soundtrap, with Meredith Allen, Sales Enablement Manager at Soundtrap Auralia - Ear Training with Real Music OBS Camera App Logitech C920 Pro Webcam Use iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to sketch in or mark up Mac documents On Stage CM01 Video Camera/Digital Recorder Adapter Elago Stream Deck Keyboard Maestro Philip Rothman's Stream Deck Profiles for Dorico/Sibelius/Musescore MainStage Apple Pro Apps for Education Accidental Tech Podcast forScore forScore for Mac GoodNotes Collaboration in GoodNotes PDF Expert Alfred Clipboard Manager StaffPad Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book David MacDonald - Twitter | Website | Blog Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others! Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Subscribe to the Blog Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS Today's episode is sponsored by MusicFirst: MusicFirst offers music educators and their students easy-to-use, affordable, cloud-based software that enables music learning, creation, assessment, sharing, and exploration on any device, anywhere, at any time. MusicFirst Classroom is the only learning management system designed specifically for K-12 music education. It combines the flexibility of an LMS with engaging content and powerful software integrations to help manage your students’ progress, make lesson plans, and create assignments. And for younger students, MusicFirst Junior is the perfect online system for teaching elementary general music. It includes a comprehensive K-5 curriculum, hundreds of lessons & songs, and kid-friendly graphics to making learning and creating music fun! Whether you’re teaching remotely, in-person, or in a blended learning environment, MusicFirst will work with you to find a solution that fits your program’s unique needs. Try it free for 30 days at musicfirst.com.

Elementary music educator, Amy Burns, joins the show! We talk about Seesaw, using tech in the elementary general music classroom, and her new book: Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches!!! Show Notes: Noteflight Soundtrap MusicFirst Seesaw Dr. Barbara Freedman Flipgrid METT Episode #14 with Theresa Hoover Ducassoux Katie Wardrobe | Midnight Music StreamYard Teaching Music Online During the Pandemic - Recent Facebook Live panel I participated in My YouTube page (Subscribe to it!) FiLMiC Pro Camera app that shoots in multiple camera angles at once on the iPhone 11 - Video from the Apple Keynote Download FiLMic Pro Loopback app by Rogue Amoeba My blog post on using Loopback Stuff Amy is doing: Amy’s forthcoming book: Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches Learn more here Buy here Writing for MusTech.net Collaborators on her new book: Cherie Herring Missy Strong Ardith Collins Glennis Patterson App of the Week:  Robby - SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba Amy - Tripple Feature! - Timestamp Camera | MixCam app | Focos Album of the Week: Robby - Clear Line | Jacob Garchik Amy - In the Heights | Lin-Manuel Miranda Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Amy - Twitter | Website Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others! Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Subscribe to the Blog Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Theresa Hoover Ducassoux joins the show to talk about technology for teaching band at a distance, productivity methodologies, Google apps for personal and school use, Flipgrid, empowering students, and more... Other topics: Personal productivity systems and apps The Getting Things Done Methodology Teaching band online Being creative with whatever teaching scenario and schedule your district is moving forward with this fall Engaging students with musical performance using the Flipgrid video service Google apps for personal productivity Google apps for classroom teaching Organizing files in Google Drive Automating band warm ups Chamber music breakout groups using Google Meet and Soundtrap Getting Google Certified Her book- Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students Our favorite album and apps of the week Show Notes: Everything Band: Episode 170 - Theresa Hoover Ducassoux Lori Schwartz Reichl Music Ed Tech Talk #8 - Diversifying Your Career and Your Programing, with Lori Schwartz Reichl Getting Things Done Methodology OmniFocus Inbox Zero MusicFirst SmartMusic Noteflight Learn Soundtrap Flipgrid Kahoot Google Teacher Certification Google: The Anywhere School 2020 Kathryn Finch: Website | Twitter Scrivener TextExpander Jamboard Getting Started with Google Jamboard | Off the Beaten Path - Theresa Ducassoux Using Jamboard in the Music Classroom | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns Flat.io Routing Audio From Your Apps Directly Into Your Zoom or Google Meet (Or Other Digital Meeting Platform) | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack Rhiannon Giddens to Lead Silkroad’s Musical Explorations | NYT Microsoft Teams New Google Meet features Google Calendar Google Slides Google Keep Evernote OneNote Google Duo, Google Meet, Google Hangouts (?) Omnifocus Project Templates Never Miss a Task, With Project Templates | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns Music Ed Tech Talk #10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne Making Just Intonation Play Along Tracks for Your Performing Ensemble (Using Tonal Energy and Garageband) | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns App of the Week:  Robby - Loopback by Rogue Ameoba (They have educator discounts) Theresa - Flat for Docs Album of the Week: Robby - Jennifer Higdon Harp Concerto Theresa - Dustin O’Halloran, piano solos Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Theresa - Twitter | Website - MusicalTheresa.com | Book - Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students | Blog - Off the Beaten Path Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others! Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Subscribe to the Blog Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

John Mlynczak returns to the show to discuss Noteflight's new integration with Sound Check and offers advice to educators about teaching online this fall, and what we can learn from it. Show Notes: Could not find the exact article I read on Zoom fatigue but there are plenty. Here’s one. Noteflight Noteflight Learn SoundCheck Integrates with Noteflight Match My Sound Partnership PracticeFirst MusicFirst School of Rock My Choral Coach Dorico Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne FileMaker Virtual Tuning Disk | EMMSmusic.com Tonal Energy Tuner Soundtrap The Rest is Noise | Alex Ross Igor Levit is Like No Other Pianist - The New Yorker | Alex Ross Igor Levit and Franz Welser-Möst | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in Bb Major, op. 19 App of the Week:  Robby - Kindle/Audible John - TikTok Album of the Week: Robby - Igor Levit - Beethoven Piano Sonatas John - Hamilton on Disney+ Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book John - Twitter Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Subscribe to the Blog Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Subscribe to the Blog Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS Meredith Allen, Sales Enablement Manager at Soundtrap, joins the show to talk about using Soundtrap in the music classroom to create music and podcasts, getting acquired by Spotify, and wearing hard pants. Show Notes: Soundtrap MusicFirst Prompts for Making Beats (Link to the Soundtrap Packet I mention in the episode) Soundtrap Lesson Plans to Inspire Your Classroom Activities Me in a Minute Podcasting Lesson Plan Spotify Anchor Gimlet Media Joe Rogen acquisition VLC Media Player (and file converter) Reddit | Animal Crossing Turnip Exchange App of the Week:  Robby - Permute Meredith - Innovators Compass Album of the Week: Robby - Dreams Come True | Love Goes On Meredith - Rocketman Soundtrack Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Meredith - Twitter | Website

Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS A swift return to the show from Craig McClellan to talk about all of the things Apple announced at their developer conference this past week and how we see it influencing our work. Show Notes: WWDC 2020 Keynote iPhone New Features - iOS 14 Preview eero WiFi OmniFocus Siri Shortcuts Overcast Dark Noise Apple Watch in the Classroom | The Class Nerd Slack Pro Clip iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Zoom Google Meet StaffPad Ferrite Recording Studio TaskPaper MindNode Comply Foam Tips for AirPods Music Ed Tech Talk - Automate All The Things, with Craig McClellan Siri Shortcuts in the Classroom | The Class Nerd Mental and Physical Health | The Class Nerd Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne Watchsmith by David Smith GoodNotes Darkroom Pixelmator Tonal Energy Tuner forScore Seesaw Remind Canvas Zapier - Connect your apps and automate workflows Fantastical Goat Rodeo Sessions App of the Week:  Robby - Toggl / Timery Craig - Meeter for Zoom, Teams & Co Album of the Week: Robby - Not Our First Goat Rodeo | The Goat Rodeo Sessions Craig - Central Park on Apple TV+ Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Craig - Twitter

Robby’s Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include: Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos The importance of developing audiation in student musicians The strengths of binary performance rubrics Art vs. Craft Understanding relational databases Data-driven music teaching (the good kind) Lots more music teaching philosophy Show Notes: Final Cut Pro X Logic Pro X Screenflow LumaFusion Logic and Final Cut 90 day free trial Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education ($200) Alfred 4 for Mac Music Ed Tech Talk #9 - Automate All The Things! With Craig McClellan David MacDonald | Composer Music Ed Tech Talk #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald IMSLP IMSLP Alfred Search 5esrd Alfred Search J. W. Pepper Bento FileMaker Book - Robert Duke | Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction Tonal Energy Tuner App Edwin E. Gordon - Musical Aptitude Profile Book - Arnold Jacobs | Wind and Song Lynda Course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training Lynda Course: Learning FileMaker 17 Lynda Course: FileMaker Tips, Tricks, and Techniques AirTable Charms Noteflight Announcement about SoundCheck Integration SmartMusic MusicFirst FileMaker 19 Holds Promise for My Music Teaching Workflow | Robbyburns.com New York Philharmonic - Digital Archives NKoda - An ensemble of sheet music, scores and parts App of the Week:  Robby - Discord Ben - IDAGIO Album of the Week: Robby - Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground Ben - Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog Ben - EMMS Music | HoCoYo Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database: Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left)     Image of Performance Packets:

Craig returns to talk about automating bedtime routines with Shortcuts, HomeKit automation, automating the Mac, our decision to end The Class Nerd podcast, and more. Show Notes: HomePods at Best Buy Apple HomeKit  Robby’s “My Favorite Technology” page - includes all home automation devices and apps he uses at home  Wemo Smart Switch Lutron Caseta Smart Light Switches  Philips Hue Smart Bulbs Shortcuts app AutoSleep sleep tracker Setting up HomeKit scenes Mysa Thermostats - for baseboard heating Honeywell Lyric Alarm System Robby’s Bedtime Shortcut Craig’s Bedtime Shortcut Robby’s Play Podcast in the Master Bathroom Shortcut Zoom Drafts iPad Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro with Trackpad Robby’s StaffPad Review - First Impressions of StaffPad for iPadOS | robbyburns.com Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 7 - Working with StaffPad Music Ed Tech Talk Season 3 Episode 5 - Taking Notes with Drafts, With Greg Pierce  Slack AppleScript Support for Drafts on the Mac Shortcuts and Drafts action to save a Draft to Apple Note (You must have both installed) AppleScript Drafts action to save a Draft to Apple Notes Alfred  List of actions I use in Alfred every day Search Google Search files Move/Copy Files from one place to another Clipboard manager Define and spell words Search OmniFocus Search Drafts Message people Email People Search GIFs on Giphy Searching websites Searching Emoji Jump to Slack Channel Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 6 - Paperless iPad Workflows - Discussion of what Markdown is Marked 2 app Brett Terpstra AppleScripts for Marked 2 and other Projects Things  Todoist OmniFocus Automation Keyboard Maestro Hazel Video of my Keyboard Maestro macro for loan agreement forms in action  The Class Nerd Semester 2 Episode 2 - To Automate or Not to Automate - discussion of DEVONthink Music Ed Tech Talk Season 2 Episode 11 - Automation and Advanced Workflows with Craig McClellan Music Ed Tech Talk Season 3 Episode 3 - Task App Showdown with Craig McClellan The Class Nerd Podcast App of the Week:  Robby - DEVONthink  Craig McClellan - Dark Noise Album of the Week: Robby - Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters Craig McClellan - Shawn McConnell: Live From Basement East Where to Find Us: Craig McClellan: Twitter | Website  Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS  

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 Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS