Robby chats with Evan Tobias (Associate Professor of Music Education at Arizona State University) about imagining new possibilities for music teaching in a rapidly shifting digital landscape–from rethinking what curriculum even means, to the everyday tools that power his research, writing, and thinking.

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Chapters and Notes

00:00:00 Greetings first

00:08:41 Introductions second

Evan Tobias, Arizona State University

YouTube

TikTok

Instagram

Podcast

AT Protocol

Cory Doctorow's Book

00:26:04 What possibilities that exist when music teachers use technology in different ways

Obsidian

Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures

00:54:38 What is curriculum?

Podcast Episode 4: Music Curriculum Perspectives with Brian Laakso

Hal Leonard Modern Band Series

littleBits

01:11:25 Research and writing tools: writing, interviews, reading…lots! Connecting ideas across many mediums…

Scite.AI - used to scan across databases, answer questions

Hazel - file management

DEVONthink - store, organize, work

zotero - collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research

PDF Expert - PDF editing

TextSniper - extract text from images

01:26:07 Surveys

Qualtrics - creating surveys

Calendly - scheduler that integrates with calendars

TextExpander - type a keystroke that fills in email body or other text

Keyboard Maestro - automate applications or websites

Fantastical - give your calendar superpowers

Craft - you know it, you love it

01:42:35 Interviews

Descript - record, edit, transcribe

Snipd - AI-powered podcast app

Airtable - database to help keep track of where people are in the project

Notion - database in place of Google Doc

OmniFocus - Task management

ClickUp - Task and project management

Readwise

Reader - PDF reader

Raindrop.io

Speechify - listen to text/PDF files

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