Music educators Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons catch up after another year away from the podcast, discussing the challenges of the past year and what education looks like in times of the pandemic, as well as the tools they are using at this time to teach their students.

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Happy New Year and New Decade!  Paul and Chris visit at the Michigan Music Conference, at the end of the day and as a college reception begins at the event.  It has been a YEAR since the last podcast (to the day!) was published.  We’re still here…it’s just been busy.  This is a live recording, with all the noises, interruptions, and distractions while recording.  Recorded with “Just Press Record” on an iPhone 11 with a Shure MV88 microphone.

Topics in the podcast are wide-ranging but include:

We’re hoping this won’t be the last podcast for 2020!  We enjoy visiting about the technology we use, and we hope that our visits–with each other or with guests–is informative to you, too.

Thoughts or comments?  Send us an e-mail at metpodcast @ gmail.com

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In this episode of the Music Education and Technology Podcast, Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons catch up on some of the happenings since they last issued a podcast episode in June.

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In this lengthy episode of the Music Education and Technology Podcast, Chris and Paul catch up about what has been going on in their classrooms since November, including discussions about Notion’s N-Tempo, Luddites, instruction with video, and more.

In the second half of the podcast, Chris and Paul visit with Don Crafton, creator and owner of Sight Reading Factory, a program that Paul uses with high school band and Chris uses with Middle School Choir.  This part of the podcast begins at 58 minutes into the podcast.  Visit sightreadingfactory.com to learn more about Sight Reading Factory.

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Link to audio: https://archive.org/download/METPodcast/MetPodcast013.m4a

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In this episode, Chris and Paul visit with Dan Scott, an Orchestra teacher in Jenison, Michigan.  Dan works at (and has been a key cotributor) to a very large and successful orchestra program (and music program) in Southern Michigan.  Dan uses technology in his teaching, and has ben active in MASTA and has a masters degree in educational technology.  Dan has also presented sessions on technology including “50 Ways to Integrate Technology in Your Music Program,” and he has graciously provided a link to the notes from that session:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KDKvwzv6Z7fdVbaqUGRiavDpyHyOoe5rZZ4vjVNs604/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a “static” PDF of the same document: 50 Easy Ways to use Technology in a Performance-Based Classroom

We hope you enjoy hearing our interview with Dan as much as we enjoyed visiting with him!

Link to Audio: https://archive.org/download/METPodcast/MetPodcast012.m4a

In this episode, Paul and Chris interview Mark Shelton, author of “Give Me a Tablet,” which is available through Heritage Music Press at your local dealer.  The interview was recorded in October and is being posted late on November 4, 2017.

As a side note, the podcast is no longer hosted by SoundCloud, but instead through archive.org.  This blog acts as the RSS feed, which is read by FeedBurner (a Google product), which then reports to Apple Podcasts.

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Link to audio: https://archive.org/download/METPodcast/MET%20Podcast%20011.m4a

In this episode, Chris was teaching a session at the Wisconsin Center for Music Education, and had Paul Skype in to talk about some technology, including the use go SeeSaw and Google Classroom.

Link to audio: https://archive.org/download/METPodcast/MET%20Podcast%20010.m4a