Music Ed Tech Talk

Thanks to my sponsors this month, Flat for Education.

Dr. Frank Buck returns to the show for the kick-off of my mini-series, Productivity Boot Camp! Dr. Frank Buck is a productivity master with a background in band directing and administration. I share my knowledge of Apple products and native third-party apps, and he shares his experience with web-based, cross-platform apps. We bounce back and forth about good digital task and note management and share our favorite apps!

Show Notes:

• SSO stands for "Single Sign-On"
• Dr. Frank Buck's latest appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk (then called Robby Burns + Friends)
• METT #15 - Double the Burns, Double the Fun!... With Amy Burns
• METT #16 - Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech, with David MacDonald
• David Allen - Getting Things Done
• Steven Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Charles Hobbs - Time Power
• Robby's Use of OmniFocus Project Templates, including concert planning
• OmniFocus Workflows with Robby Burns | LearnOmniFocus.com
• My blog post on Staying on Top of Teaching Responsibilities With Omnifocus Perspectives
• Remember the Milk
• Toodledoo
• OmniFocus
• Todoist
• Things
• Evernote
• If This Than That
• Drafts App - Where Text Starts
• DEVONthink
• Flute Resources for Home Practice | Dr. Frank Buck
• OneNote
• TaskClone
• Feedly
• Feedbin
• Reeder
• iOS Widgets
• New Software Updates from Apple: Exploring Widgets! | Music Ed Tech Talk

App of the Week:

Robby - Sticky Widgets

Frank Buck - Feedly

Album of the Week:

Robby - The Lost Art of Longing | BT

Frank Buck - Handel Flute Sonata V - Recording of Dr. Frank Buck Performing

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Frank Buck - Twitter | Website

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Thanks to this week's sponsor, Flat for Education:

Flat for Education offers music educators and their students the most affordable cloud-based music notation software on the market. Empowering teachers to create playful and engaging music activities, creations, assessments on any device at any time.

The platform integrates with every well-known learning management system available: Google Classroom, Microsoft 365, Canvas, Schoology, and MusicFirst to name a few. Everything will be synchronized with your existing setup to avoid any time loss.

Flat for Education offers an advanced system of assignments allowing you to create playful and stunning music activities with your students.

Create a template for all your students to start working from, or simplify the toolbar to have them only working with eighth and quarter notes. The only limit is your imagination.

Save a lot of time by generating worksheets and quizzes in just a few clicks for your students to practice music theory.

Finally, Bands directors and choirs conductors can have their students directly recording their performance from home for review.

Whether you are teaching remotely or in-person, Flat for Education will support you in creating playful and engaging music activities in no time. Try it free for 90 days on flat.io/edu

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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