Music Ed Tech Talk

Chris returns to the show to talk about Apple’s Education Event this past week.  Chris Russell Twitter | Blog: Technology in Music Education | Podcast: Music Education Technology | Blog: Ukestuff | Youtube  Show Notes: Apple Education Page | Keynote Apple’s 2012 Keynote Acer Chromebook Tab 10 Logitech Rugged Combo 2 Keyboard| Logitech Crayon Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Logitech Crayon Stylus - The Mac Observer Canvas Podcast - Episode #57: Apple Education Event 2018 jamf Apple Education: Teaching Tools (Apple Classroom and Schoolwork) Google Classroom ClassKit Shobie | Schoology | Canvas Musicfirst | Soundtrap | Noteflight Microsoft Office for iPad Word | Excel | PowerPoint iWork Updates Pages | Numbers | Keynote Attendance2 GoodNotes  iBooks Author iPad Split View (Use two apps side by side) Dorico | My interview with Daniel Spreadbury of Dorico Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you Notion App  

Craig returns to the show to talk about how we manage tasks, and the apps we use to manage them. There is a strong emphasis here on two of the premium task apps for Mac and iOS, Things and OmniFocus.  This episode isn't so much a showdown between Craig and I or one app and another. It is more a celebration of the great features of pro task apps that we depend on to manage our teaching careers. For me, there is an ongoing showdown between these apps in my mind, as I constantly contemplate which tools best help my brain to stay focused on the task at hand. It was fun to process that with Craig. Craig Twitter | The Class Nerd Blog Show Notes: Task Management Apps Discussed: Things | OmniFocus | Todoist | 2Do Todoist Education Pricing GTD (Getting Things Done) Methodology - Getting Things Done by David Allen Previous Episode with Craig: Automation and Advanced Workflows Carrot Weather - Our Favorite Weather App for Apple Watch Waterminder - Water Intake Tracking App Hidrate Spark 2.0 Smart Water Bottle David Sparks (Macsparky Blog) Federico Viticci (Twitter | MacStories Blog) Slack - Team Communication Tool  

Daniel Spreadbury, Product Manager of notation editor, Dorico, joins the show. Once we got going, this conversation ventured into great detail on the subject of Daniel’s start at Sibelius, using the different modes of Dorico, user interface design, the challenges of software development, the future of Dorico on mobile, and much more. Daniel’s articulate thought and meticulous attention to detail made this a really fun episode to record. You can hear Daniel’s inner nerd pour out over every side of the product. From the backend code, to the user experience, to the customer support. Daniel Spreadbury Twitter | Dorico | Blog Show Notes: Dorico YouTube Channel Lynda.com Cubase Cubasis Marco Arment Overcast Podcast App Forecast My Book - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers Audio Hijack Edit: Since recording, the Dorico Manual was released in PDF form. Download here.

Paul Simmons and Chris Russell (Co-hosts of the Music Education Technology Podcast) join the show to talk about all of the new features in iOS 11. We touch on it all! The dock, multitasking, the new Files app, new Notes features, and even the iPhone X announcement. This is a great episode to listen to if you have seen Apple’s prompt to update and you are on the fence. We will walk you through all of the major changes, and how we are using them. The Guests Paul: Twitter | Blog Chris: Twitter | Blog Music Education Technology Podcast Show Notes Apple’s iOS 11 Page MacStories iOS 11 Review Amy Burns’s Post About 32 Bit Apps Leaving the App Store My post about syncing a Logic file on a Mac with a GarageBand file on an iPad Made with ARKit Note! In our review of all the ways to launch an app into multitasking mode that is not on the dock, I forgot one. If a Bluetooth keyboard is attached to your iPad, you can press Command+Space to launch Spotlight, search for an app, start dragging the icon, and drop it into place next to your existing app. It isn’t pretty, but it works.  

The epic conclusion of season two of Robby Burns + Friends has come! Thank you for listening to this season all about my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers. The book was released one year ago this month. I have had an absolute blast interviewing music educators all year long on topics relating to organization and technology in the music classroom. Be sure to check out all of the other episodes in this series. Coming this week: Season 3!  This week Craig McClellan, of The Class Nerd, joins the show to talk abut automation and advanced workflows. We will save you 1,000s of clicks! Show Notes: Craig McClellan Craig on Twitter | The Class Nerd Blog | Craig’s Micro.blog Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers Buy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer Mentioned this Episode: My Blog Post “The Six Best Automation Apps for iOS” Drafts App Markdown Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions - MacStories Apple Acquires Workflow Workflow App Robby Burns + Friends Episode on the GTD Methodology and Task Apps…featuring Dr. Frank Buck Marco Arment, developer of…Tumblr/Instapaper/Overcast OmniGraffle Designing App Link to Download My Workflow for Managing Seating Charts (Note: You must replace the PDF in this Workflow with your own seating chart if it is going to work) My Blog Post on Using TextExpander in the Music Classroom TextExpander TextExpander for iOS Bear Notes App Evernote IFTTT Zapier Launch Center Pro Editorial iPad App Fujitsu Scansnap Ix500 Hazel File Management App Squarespace Websites Pythonista for iPad Lynda.com  

This week Dr. Ken Elpus joins the show to talk about productivity apps and utilities that he uses to get his busy and multifaceted job done. Ken is the Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Maryland College Park. He is an absolute power user when it comes to leveraging his computer in amazing ways to better do his job! Note: Around the 49 minute mark, Ken’s voice gets weird. Sorry. Dr. Ken Elpus Website | Twitter | UMD Show Notes: Apps Mentioned.. Audio Hijack - tool for rerouting the audio of your apps | Ulysses - Writing tool for Mac and iOS | Google Photos | Dropbox | Evernote | Waze - maps app with crowd sourced traffic data | Fantastical on Mac and iPhone - natural language input calendar app | OmniFocus - Robby and Ken’s task app of choice | Things - a beautiful and intuitive task app | Keynote | Canvas | Wuphf! | Unibox - organizes email by contact | AirMail - powerful mail client for Mac and iOS | Spark - Robby and Ken’s iOS mail client of choice | SaneBox - service that automatically sorts and organizes your mail | Slack - team communication tool | Remind - app for messaging students | Google Voice | Spotify | forScore | Notability | GoodNotes - note taking app for the iPad with presentation features | iAnnotate | Goodreader | Papers - Reference management software | Scrivener - authoring tool for Mac and iOS | DevonThink | Amphetamine - keeps your Mac awake | 1Password | Magnet and Moom - Window management utility for Mac | Roku | Plex | Boxer - MS Dos Machine | Dorico | MindNode | Alfred/Launchbar - Powerful Spotlight replacements | Screenflow/Tapes - screencast tools | Yoink | Transcribe App/Amazing Slow Downer - tools for slowing down, speeding up, transposing, and looping audio recordings | Taskclone - service that links your Evernote account with your task app Keyboard shortcut for hide everything except active window: Option+Command+H.  

Kevin Eikenberg of Four/Ten Media joins the show to talk to Robby about strategies for working with video. Four/Ten Media is made of up Kevin and Evan Chapman, a past percussion student of mine. Kevin produced the video trailer for my book and Evan’s band, Square Peg Round Hole, provided the background music. Kevin Eikenberg Four/Ten Media Website | Instagram | Facebook Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers Buy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer Products, Apps, and Services Mentioned this Episode: Final Cut Pro X | iMovie | iMovie Theater | Q3 Video Recorder | H4N Handy Recorder | macOS Tags | Adobe Premiere Pro | After Effects | Adobe Creative Cloud | Build a PC Subreddit | Plex | Dropbox | Canon EOS60D | Canon C100 | Canon Camcorders | Sony A5100 Mirrorless Camera Logic/Final Cut Teacher Discount!!!

Music technology educator, Ableton Live expert, and author, Will Kuhn, chats with me about organizing the audio files on our devices. We also speculate the future of professional audio and video software on the iPad. Will Kuhn Website | Twitter | Will's Book - Interactive Composition | Lebanan High School Electronic Music Group Show Notes: Referenced Articles The Tragedy of iTunes and Classical Music - The Atlantic The Hot New Hip-Hop Producer Who Does Everything On His iPhone - Wired Can the MacBook Pro Replace Your iPad? - Fraser Spears Syncing A File Between Logic and GarageBand on iOS - Robby Burns Workflow to Download YouTube Videos on iPad/iPhone   The Will Kuhn Audio Organization Workflow iTunes is for finished stuff Student work is shared in Google Drive iCloud desktop folder for short term storage and syncing across devices With video files - don’t keep the scraps!   Products and Apps Mentioned iOS 11 Files app GarageBand for iOS iMovie for iOS Xcode Reason Inter-app audio apps iRig Traktor DJ App for iPad djayPro DJ App for iPad Aperture Lightroom Apple Photos  

Chris Russel returns to the show to talk about working with digital scores on the iPad.  Chris Russel Twitter | Blog | Podcast Show Notes: Check out our last episode together on scanning documents.  forScore unrealBook Showbie Seesaw piaScore Orpheus Musicpad Pro MusicReader Newzik DeepDish Gig Book iGigBook PDF Expert Notability GoodNotes Noteflight Learn PracticeFirst MusicFirst AirTurn Products Gvido Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band My Blog Post on Indexing a Real Book with forScore The Man Who Ate a Car…Plane?   Other Useful Links Mentioned in the Conversation but Edited out of the Final Episode smartmusic Transcribe! app Music Technology Teacher Podcast - with Katie Wardrobe  

In this weeks episode, I am joined by Paul Shimmons (band director, music tech in education blogger, and podcaster). We have a great time talking about our various workflows for reading, editing, annotating, and organizing our PDFs. This episode was recorded shortly after the announcement of iOS 11 which will bring a lot of new productivity features to the iPad. Naturally, we had to discuss these announcements and how they might reshape our PDF workflows next fall. This episode has chapters!!!! Using your podcast app of choice, skip to any topic in the episode by taping on the title of that chapter. Paul Twitter | Blog | Podcast   Show Notes:   Recommended PDF Apps: Preview | Adobe Acrobat Pro DC | PDFpen | PDF Expert | Documents 5 | GoodReader | PDF Converter | PDF Office | Evernote | iBooks | Kindle | Notability | Microsoft OneNote | Misc Rogue Amoeba | Audio Hijack | iOS 11 | Readdle Apps | Spark Mail App | Readdle Drag and Drop | OmniGraffle | Workflow | AirTurn | FileMaker | Squarespace Websites