
Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers, Chapter 10 - Misc. Apps and Utilities, with Dr. Ken Elpus (Season 2, Episode 10)
09/04/17 • 94 min
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.
Dr. Ken Elpus Show Notes: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
Keyboard shortcut for hide everything except active window: Option+Command+H.
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.
Dr. Ken Elpus Show Notes: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
Keyboard shortcut for hide everything except active window: Option+Command+H.
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Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers, Chapter 9 - Working with Video, with Guest Kevin Eikenberg (Season 2, Episode 9)
Kevin Eikenberg of Four/Ten Media joins the show to talk to Robby about strategies for working with video. Four/Ten Media is made of up Kevin and Evan Chapman, a past percussion student of mine. Kevin produced the video trailer for my book and Evan’s band, Square Peg Round Hole, provided the background music.
Kevin EikenbergFour/Ten Media Website | Instagram | Facebook
Digital Organization Tips for Music TeachersBuy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer
Products, Apps, and Services Mentioned this Episode:Final Cut Pro X | iMovie | iMovie Theater | Q3 Video Recorder | H4N Handy Recorder | macOS Tags | Adobe Premiere Pro | After Effects | Adobe Creative Cloud | Build a PC Subreddit | Plex | Dropbox | Canon EOS60D | Canon C100 | Canon Camcorders | Sony A5100 Mirrorless Camera
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Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers Ch. 11 - Automation and Advanced Workflows, with Guest Craig McClellan (Season 2, Episode 11)
The epic conclusion of season two of Robby Burns + Friends has come! Thank you for listening to this season all about my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers. The book was released one year ago this month. I have had an absolute blast interviewing music educators all year long on topics relating to organization and technology in the music classroom. Be sure to check out all of the other episodes in this series. Coming this week: Season 3!
This week Craig McClellan, of The Class Nerd, joins the show to talk abut automation and advanced workflows. We will save you 1,000s of clicks!
Show Notes: Craig McClellan
Craig on Twitter | The Class Nerd Blog | Craig’s Micro.blog
Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
Buy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer
Mentioned this Episode:
My Blog Post “The Six Best Automation Apps for iOS”
Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions - MacStories
Robby Burns + Friends Episode on the GTD Methodology and Task Apps...featuring Dr. Frank Buck
Marco Arment, developer of...Tumblr/Instapaper/Overcast
OmniGraffle Designing App
Link to Download My Workflow for Managing Seating Charts (Note: You must replace the PDF in this Workflow with your own seating chart if it is going to work)
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