Music Ed Tech Talk

Season 2 is back!!! After a series of technical difficulties and a busy concert/conference presenting season, Episode 3 is ready!

This week my choral colleague, Nick Dogas, joins the show to discuss basic productivity in the music classroom. Topics include: managing an active teaching schedule using calendar apps, staying on top of email responsibilities, where technology helps (and doesn’t help), the role of attention, and more.

This was a fun one to record. All of my other guests this season are experts on the topics of each episode. I was having trouble finding someone who wanted to talk about the not-so-glamorous topics of email and calendars. Nick joked with me that he could come on as a tech-NON-expert and I loved the idea. Considering how differently each of us approaches our work, this episode turned into an interesting counterpoint about focus, attention, the problems that technology solves for unorganized people, and when it is best to just turn off the computer screen and get work done.

Note: Due to some issues recording this episode on an iPad, there are a few awkward edits and audio issues.

Sight Reading Factory - Excellent website for generating sight reading exercises for your students.

OmniFocus - Powerful task management for iOS and macOS.

Todoist - Collaborative, web based, and cross platform task management app.

Evernote - Versatile and cross platform note taking app.

Spark Mail App and Airmail - Two superior email apps for iOS and macOS.

Squarespace - Website platform that our music team used to build our website and publish our online calendar.

Google Calendar - The calendar service our music team uses to collaborate on classes.

Chris and Paul, co-hosts of the Music Education & Technology Podcast, rejoin the show to talk about how we are doing for distance learning, StaffPad for iPadOS, and other recent news in music technology education.

• dear music teachers... please stop asking how to create a virtual choir video | Midnight Music
• Virtualchoir.net - Keep singing, keep sharing. Start your virtual ensemble.
• Noteflight
• MusicFirst
• Flat.io
• smartmusic
• PracticeFirst
• Cubasis 3
• Music Ed Tech Talk | #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald
• New iPad Magic Keyboard
• forScore
• iPad Apps You Love, Now on Mac
• GoodNotes 5
• SwiftUI
• FileMaker Pro
• StaffPad for iPadOS
• Notion
• Komp
• Symphony Pro
• Ferrite Recording Studio
• StaffPad Reader
• Music Notation on iPad and Musicals | iPad and Technology in Music Ed
• First Impressions of StaffPad for iPadOS | Robby Burns
• StaffPad Comes to iPadOS (Reflections on App Store Pricing and Touch Screen Operating Systems) | Robby Burns
• A Revolution and Turning of the Tide - Music Creation is Changing for the Better with StaffPad for iOS! | iPad and Technology in Music Ed
• Working with StaffPad | Technology in Music Education
• Dorico
• Planning Center
• Reason
• ReWire
• Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration
• unrealBook
• My Very Straightforward and Very Successful Setup for Teaching Virtual Private Lessons | Robby Burns
• PDF Expert
• PencilKit
• MindNode
• Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly
• Louis Cole
• Knower
• Childish Gambino
• The Jive Aces on Britains Got Talent
• Animal Crossing
• iCab Mobile - iPad web browsers that can download YouTube videos

App of the Week:

Robby - Slack

Paul - Cubasis 3

Chris -