Music Ed Tech Talk

Robby discusses the practices and technology we should TAKE, LEAVE, and use to TRANSFORM teaching next year.

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Show Notes:

• What Do We Keep? - Session Notes from the Conference
• What Do We Keep? - NAfME Blog
• My recent appearance on the MusicFirst Podcast
• Remix Assignment Blog Post
• Remix Assignment YouTube Tutorial
• Putting the E in Ensemble Curriculum and Resources
• Podcast Interview with Alex Shapiro
• The virtual performance referenced in the video was the Ellicott Mills Middle School Woodwind Quintet performing Divertimento for Woodwind Quintet (Joseph Haydn)
• David MacDonald and I talk about apps for Research and Remembering
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts, appearance on this show
• Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne

Dorico is out for iPad! Daniel Spreadbury (Product Marketing Manager) joins me to talk about it. Subscribe to the Blog… RSS | Email Newsletter

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Show Notes:

• Dorico, featuring Daniel Spreadbury (Season 3, Episode 2)
• Dorico website
• My blog post–> Dorico for iPad: First Impressions
• Video demo of Dorico for iPad

Robby and David compare smart speakers, their assistants, and their smart home ecosystems. This episode covers the HomePod, Google Nest, Amazon Echo, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Sonos speakers, and the various quirks that result from trying to use them in combination. Backstage Access Patreon supporters get extended conversation about Apple Notes, DEVONthink, Standard Music Font Layout compatibility, FileMaker databases, student motivation, grading (and ungrading), and sticker charts. Subscribe to the Blog… RSS | Email Newsletter

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Show Notes:

• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
• Zach Gage apps
• Apple Arcade
• Scoring Notes: Learning how to use music notation software
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 34 - WWDC 2021
• Soro- Sonos Siri Shortcuts app
• Scary Pockets vinyl Patreon
• _DavidSmith apps–> Watchsmith and Widgetsmith
• Stream Deck
• My appearance on the MusicFirst podcast
• My podcast featuring Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis

App of the Week: Robby - HomeRun 2 David MacDonald - Letterpress

Album of the Week: Robby - Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant David MacDonald - Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Ursula Oppens | The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Kaj Schumacher | Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Tech Tip of the Week: Robby - Use a clipboard manager David MacDonald - New stream deck store!

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Composer Alex Shapiro joins the show to talk about a little bit of everything!--> getting young students to compose, the importance of composing repertoire for young musicians, writing electro-acoustic music, her curriculum Putting the E in Ensemble, the social implications of modern and future technology, her amazing studio space, and more. Join Patreon for extended conversation about technology and overcoming blocks in the creative process.

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Putting the E in Ensemble Links

Curriculum: - https://www.alexshapiro.org/Shapiro-E-ensemble_Syllabus.html

Wind Band music: - https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASWindBand.html

Show Notes:

The Great Hack - Netflix

The Social Dilemma - Netflix

Christopher Cicconi appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk

Off the Edge - Alex Shapiro

Tight Squeeze - Alex Shapiro

Rock Music - Alex Shapiro

Count to Ten - Alex Shapiro

Toothpaste privacy Tweet thread

Apple WWDC 2021

My Scale Play-Along Tracks

App of the Week:

Robby - Magnet

Alex - Two Dots / SpellTower

Album of the Week:

Robby - Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite

Alex - O Seguinte é Esse / Howling, featuring RY X and Frank Wiedemann: Sacred Ground

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Try widgets!

Alex - Back up your stuff! / Let other people beta test

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Alex - Twitter | Website

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Robby and Craig break down the announcements from Apple's Word Wide Developer Conference and discuss how teachers might use the upcoming features to their latest software updates.

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Show Notes:

• The Class Nerd podcast
• Support the show on Patreon
• WWDC Keynote
• iOS 15 Preview | iPadOS 15 Preview | macOS Monterey Preview | watchOS 8 Preview
• Apps for Research and Remembering, with David MacDonald
• Overcast
• Dark Noise
• Apple Watch In the Classroom (The Class Nerd podcast episode)
• The Social Dilemma on Netflix

Album of the Week:

Robby - Bones by Michael Mayo

Craig McClellan - Sour by Olivia Rodrigo

App of the Week:

Robby - Timery for the Mac

Craig McClellan - Music Harbor

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Transpose Chrome Extension

Craig McClellan - Feedbin

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Craig McClellan - Twitter

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Thanks to this week's sponsor, the DMV Percussion Academy. Learn more and register here.

Description

Robby overviews his three most successful Soundtrap projects in 2021.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:00:14 - Sponsor: DMV Percussion Academy
• 00:01:24 - About this Episode
• 00:03:51 - YAY SUMMER
• 00:05:11 - 1: Melody Composition / Loop Accompaniment
• 00:14:35 - 1: Student Examples
• 00:16:15 - 2: Row Your Boat Multi-Track
• 00:22:19 - 2: Student Examples
• 00:24:27 - 3: All Star Remix
• 00:34:38 - 3: Student Examples
• 00:36:00 - Grading for Mastery Not Creativity
• 00:37:47 - Tech Tip of the Week
• 00:39:20 - App of the Week
• 00:40:00 - Album of the Week
• 00:42:44 - Conclusion

Show Notes:

• Noteflight
• Soundtrap
• MusicFirst
• How to Make a Song Remix Project in Soundtrap (Blog Post and YouTube Video)
• Reddit: Isolated Vocals
• Neural Mix Pro
• Lalal.ai

App of the Week: Reeder 5

Album of the Week: Alison Balsom - Paris

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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.

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:

• Electronic Music School - PRE ORDER NOW
• Ethan's student's songwriting projects: example 1 | example 2 | example 3
• Vektroid / Macintosh Plus - Bandcamp | Floral Shoppe | Twitter | Neo Cali full album
• Scrivener
• OmniOutliner
• MindNode
• Music Ed Tech Talk #31 - forScore for the Mac, featuring David MacDonald
• AirServer
• Poolside.fm
• Toggle Rotation Lock when Using YouTube

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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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
• Tech podcasts we like
• Music YouTubers we like
• Our favorite music, tech tips, and albums of the week

Show Notes:

• David's other appearances on this show: #30 - Apps for Research and Remembering | #16 - Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech | #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music
• Adam Neely
• 12tone
• What Key is Sweet Home Alabama In?
• What Key is Hey Joe In?
• Philip Tagg
• Robby's Tweet Thread about teaching music theory to middle school students
• Megan Lavengood Twitter
• Megan Lavengood appearance on Sound Expertise
• Will Robin Twitter
• forScore for the Mac
• Daring Fireball
• The Talk Show
• John Gruber and Ben Thompson on what makes the iPad the iPad
• Indexing a forScore Real Book
• Mac Catalyst
• David MacDonald Scoring Notes iPad score reader blog post
• AirServer
• GoodNotes
• Broadcasts app
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Fission audio editor
• DJay app
• Neural Mix Pro
• Anytune
• Transcribe!
• Transcribe+
• The Amazing Slow Downer
• Darcy James Argue
• Darcy James Argue Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon Score
• Filmic Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe Premiere
• Setapp
• Loopback
• OmniGraffle

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 Babalyon

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Composer and teacher, David MacDonald, returns for a discussion about the apps we use for notes, research, writing, and clipping data to find later.

Other topics:

• What kinds of work goes in which kinds of apps
• Digital research tools
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Streaming / virtual teaching tools
• Music theory YouTubers
• Zooming in to your Mac screen
• Quickly taking a screenshot with the Apple Pencil
• Our favorite music and apps of the week

Show Notes:

• Craft app
• Logic
• Audio Hijack
• Descript
• Evernote
• MarginNote
• DEVONthink
• Pinboard
• Bear Notes
• Drafts
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts - Guest appearance on this show
• Ulysses
• NAfME Blog Post 1 - Digital Organization Tools for Music Educators
• NAfME Blog Post 2 - Apps to Help With Time Management and Planning
• GoodNotes
• Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald (the one where we talk about GoodNotes)
• Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech, with David MacDonald (the one where we talk about streaming)
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Susan Blum - Ungrading
• Instapaper
• Readwise
• MindNode
• OBS blog post - Hypercharging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software
• Stream Deck
• Philip Ewell
• Adam Neely - Music Theory and White Supremacy
• 12tone on YouTube

App of the Week: Robby - Stream Deck Mobile App David MacDonald - Reincubate Camo & FiLMiC Pro

Album of the Week: Robby - Owane | Yolo EP Vol. 1 David MacDonald - Scary Pockets YouTube channel

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

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Robby explains how he uses Noteflight, Soundtrap, and Flipgrid to create engaging, asynchronous, assignments for students in his performing ensembles.

Show Notes

• Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software - Video and Blog Post
• TMEA Session Notes
• Noteflight
• Soundtrap
• Flipgrid
• Scanner Pro
• Scanbot
• Sheet Music Scanner App
• METT Episode 28 - Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely
• Learn more about Noteflight on METT #13 - Exploring Noteflight Learn, with John Mlynczak
• Learn more about Soundtrap on METT #12 - Making Music and Podcasts Using Soundtrap, with Meredith Allen
• Learn more about Flipgrid on METT #14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, with Theresa Hoover Ducassoux

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