"What Do We Keep? Integrating New Tech Into In-Person Teaching" Session Notes | NAMM | January 21, 2022 - 2pm

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TAKE LEAVE TRANSFORM

TAKE: Software that empowers student creativity

LEAVE: Virtual performances

TRANSFORM:

  • Podcast episode about transforming the music classroom with tech, featuring Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein:

TAKE: Software that empowers efficiency and teacher creativity

  • Evernote - Cross platform service and app for managing all your notes, research, and resources
  • Spark Mail - Free Apple and Android app with supercharged email features
  • Drafts | Where Text Starts
  • Todoist - Cross-platform task management app
  • OmniFocus - My preferred task management app
  • About my task and time management workflow as a music teacher:

LEAVE: Software that gets in the way

  • LMS--> Find the point of diminishing return. Don't do more work than actually gets results!

TRANSFORM: Practice resources and play-alongs

TAKE: Digital communication

  • Use effective digital communication tools when they eliminate unnecessary logistics!

LEAVE: Lengthy and verbose documents

  • Short, sweet, detailed, and frequent communication is idea in the digital age.

TRANSFORM: New models for non-musical logistics and collaboration

TAKE: Microphones, audio interfaces

LEAVE: need to be tethered to a computer

TRANSFORM: take the best of both

  • Wenger modular stand
  • Being tethered to a computer means more resources at your finger tips!
  • Farrago soundboard app
  • Other Rogue Amoeba apps that are indispensable for making content and wrangling audio: Audio Hijack, Loopback, and Soundsource. Check out their education discount.
  • AirServer app which lets you share an iOS screen to a computer
  • Podcast episode featuring maker of Audio Hijack, Farrago, Soundsource, and Loopback