Music Ed Tech Talk

Will is here! We discuss forthcoming changes to the show, automation, apps of the year, tech we're thankful for, and some of our favorite media we’ve been engaging with.

This episode was recorded in late December 2024.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Here he goes taking about Dark Souls again

00:08:15 MCU (Muppet Cinematic Universe)

00:15:14 Introducing...Will Kuhn, now a METT Regular! And Jaye, podcast editor!

00:20:23 2025 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year Robby Burns - acknowledgments and thank yous.

00:27:04 Thank you Patreon Supporter Susan!

00:27:46 MacStories’ App of the Year: Delta Emulator

00:40:31 Siri Shortcuts App

00:43:32 Current AI uses - productivity, creativity, philosophy

00:51:31 Robby’s National Board Certification Application and NotebookLM

00:57:51 What are we really trying to do [with AI and our students]?

01:02:58 Three Holiday Topic Blitz - Tech We’re Thankful For; Tech We’re Thankful For In the Workplace; Gifts and Gift Cards

01:16:54 How about music?!

Show Notes and Links

• Robby Burns named 2025 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year.
• (1)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000597634283)
• (2)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000544778961)
• (3)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000544778961)
• (4)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000577043856)
• Robby Burns | creating Music Ed Tech Talk | Patreon
• MacStories
• Delta User Guide | Delta
• (5)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000510317074)
• DJ Apps | Algoriddim
• Google NotebookLM | Note Taking & Research Assistant Powered by AI
• Genesis - In Too Deep (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• Apple Vision Pro - Apple
• PlayStation®5 | Play Has No Limits | PlayStation
• Move — a compact tool for intuitive music making | Ableton
• Harmony Director - Brass & Woodwinds - Musical Instruments - Products - Yamaha USA
• Studio Neat
• Filterworld — Kyle Chayka
• Chase and Status
• Vampire Weekend - Official Website
• Väsen, Hawktail - Väsen & Hawktail
• Home - DOMi and JD Beck
• SAM GREENFIELD | HOME

Where to Find Us

• Robby - robbyburns.com
• Will - willkuhn.com

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1. 79 - Teaching Music Tech, with Gillian Desmarais - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
2. 61 - Music Technology 101, with Heath Jones - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
3. 61 - Music Technology 101, with Heath Jones - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
4. 69 - I Don’t Want a Valuable Life Lesson, I Just Want An Ice Cream - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
5. 52 - Dorico Updates! with Daniel Spreadbury - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎

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.

Website | Twitter | UMD

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

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Show Notes:

• Gillian: Website | Spotify | Instagram | LinkedIn
• Steven Bryant - Ecstatic Waters
• [DJ Hapa](https://www.instagram.com/djhovamusic/
• Electronic Music School, Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein
• iPad Pros Podcast - Episode 195 - Gigs and Music Performances with Robby Burns
• Bob Habersat and Shed the Music
• iPad event
• EU links: Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone | Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
• Delta
• AltStore
• Clip app
• Udio
• Notion
• [Music Ed Tech Talk #58 - Second Brain for Music Educators, with Dr. Cory Meals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRFN2RcVMsI
• Kits.AI
• Songwriters Pad
• Splice
• Telefunken
• Video - Only Five People Know the Secret to Making Zildjian’s Iconic Cymbals
• YouTube Music

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Resources

• Hal Leonard Intermediate Band Method
• Beat Elimination as a Means of Teaching Intonation to Beginning Wind Instrumentalists, The Journal of Research in Music Education, Winer 1972
• The Problem of Tonality in Seventheenth Century Music, Delbert M. Beswick, Music, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1950
• Musical Performance: Learning Theory and Pedagogy - Daniel Kohut
• Automating Band Warmups, Teaching Auditory Skill, and Managing My Classroom... With Solfege Bingo

Extra Show Notes from the Podcast Episode:

App of the Week

• Obsidian
• Hook
• Jamulus.io

Album of the Week

• Church on Hell Street - Punch Brothers
• Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Tech Tip of the Week

• Numbers & Fantastical for Batch Events
• Craft App
• Craft episode of Music Ed tech Talk

Paul Shimmons, author of iPad and Technology in Music Ed, joins the show to talk about Apple’s new software releases: iPad OS 13 and macOS Catalina. But we also find time to talk about our favorite apps, microphones, recording workflows, subscription pricing for software, Siri Shortcuts, iPad apps for Mac, the new iPhone, and the new Apple Watch.

Show Notes:

• Audio Hijack
• Downie - Browser extension to download audio and video from websites
• Focusrite Scarlett 6i6
• Audio Technica P420
• Blue Yeti Microphone
• Tonal Energy Tuner
• Shure MV88 iPhone Microphone
• Noteflight
• Dorico
• Plex
• Homebridge
• Nest Smoke Detector
• HomeKit
• Soundtrap
• MusicFirst
• Pyeware
• FileMaker
• Overcast
• AnyList
• Drafts
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode - Taking Notes with Drafts, Featuring Greg Pierce
• Ulysses
• iA Writer
• Evernote
• OmniFocus
• Things
• Todoist
• Wunderlist
• TaskPaper
• Carrot Weather App
• GoodNotes for the Mac
• My “It’s Concert Band Siri” Shortcut

Due to a bug in my version of Shortcuts, I am currently unable to share shortcuts. I hope to update this soon.

• Tonal Energy Tuner Siri Shortcuts

Go to Preferences and select Siri Shortcuts. Tap on the action you would like to turn into a shortcut and then assign a Siri phrase for it.

• OmniGraffle
• Federico Vitici on Twitter
• MacStories
• Craig McClellan Twitter|Blog
• Matt Cassanelli Twitter
• NFC Stickers
• Attendance 2 for iPad
• iDoceo - Gradebook and Seating charts on iPad
• forScore
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