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Podcast Episode

METT Episode #17 - Talking About the Weather, with Chris Cicconi

Dr. Christopher Cicconi, Assistant Professor of Music Education, and Director of Bands and Orchestra at Towson University, joins the show to talk about selecting meaningful repertoire for your ensemble. We also talk about score study with iPad Pro apps, involving yourself in your music teaching community, and yes, I go on a tangent about my favorite new weather app.

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Show Notes:

App of the Week:
Robby - Weather Line and Carrot Weather
Chris - Fidelity

Album of the Week:
Robby - Trust in the Life-force of the Deep Mystery - The Comet Is Coming
Chris - Game of Thrones Highlights - Spotify Playlist | Mad Max: Fury Road Soundtrack

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Chris - Towson University Profile Page

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Thanks to my sponsor this month, MusicFirst.

METT Podcast #16 - Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech, with David MacDonald

Thanks to my sponsor this month, MusicFirst

David MacDonald returns to the show to talk about the hardware and software in our virtual teaching setups. Then we speculate about touchscreen Macs and consider how Apple's recent App Store policies might impact the future of creative professional software on iOS.

Topics include:

  • New Zoom features for musicians and teachers
  • David and Philip Rothman's new podcast, Scoring Notes
  • Using Open Broadcaster Software to level up your virtual teaching
  • Routing audio from your apps into Zoom and Google Meet calls
  • Teaching with Auralia
  • LMS integration with third-party music education apps
  • Using MainStage and Logic for performing instruments into virtual classrooms
  • Touchscreen Macs
  • Apple's App Store Policy

Show Notes:

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald - Twitter | Website | Blog

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Today's episode is sponsored by MusicFirst:

MusicFirst offers music educators and their students easy-to-use, affordable, cloud-based software that enables music learning, creation, assessment, sharing, and exploration on any device, anywhere, at any time.

MusicFirst Classroom is the only learning management system designed specifically for K-12 music education. It combines the flexibility of an LMS with engaging content and powerful software integrations to help manage your students’ progress, make lesson plans, and create assignments.

And for younger students, MusicFirst Junior is the perfect online system for teaching elementary general music. It includes a comprehensive K-5 curriculum, hundreds of lessons & songs, and kid-friendly graphics to making learning and creating music fun!

Whether you’re teaching remotely, in-person, or in a blended learning environment, MusicFirst will work with you to find a solution that fits your program’s unique needs. Try it free for 30 days at musicfirst.com.

David’s teaching setup.

David’s teaching setup.

My teaching setup.

My teaching setup.

…From far away.

…From far away.

🎙 METT Episode #15 - Double the Burns, Double the Fun!... with Amy Burns

Elementary music educator, Amy Burns, joins the show! We talk about Seesaw, using tech in the elementary general music classroom, and her new book: Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches!!!

Show Notes:

Stuff Amy is doing:

App of the Week:
Robby - SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba
Amy - Tripple Feature! - Timestamp Camera | MixCam app | Focos

Album of the Week:
Robby - Clear Line | Jacob Garchik
Amy - In the Heights | Lin-Manuel Miranda

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Amy - Twitter | Website

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🎙 #14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, with Theresa Hoover Ducassoux

Theresa Hoover Ducassoux joins the show to talk about technology for teaching band at a distance, productivity methodologies, Google apps for personal and school use, Flipgrid, empowering students, and more...

Other topics:

  • Personal productivity systems and apps
  • The Getting Things Done Methodology
  • Teaching band online
  • Being creative with whatever teaching scenario and schedule your district is moving forward with this fall
  • Engaging students with musical performance using the Flipgrid video service
  • Google apps for personal productivity
  • Google apps for classroom teaching
  • Organizing files in Google Drive
  • Automating band warm ups
  • Chamber music breakout groups using Google Meet and Soundtrap
  • Getting Google Certified
  • Her book- Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students
  • Our favorite album and apps of the week

Show Notes:

App of the Week:
Robby - Loopback by Rogue Ameoba (They have educator discounts)
Theresa - Flat for Docs

Album of the Week:
Robby - Jennifer Higdon Harp Concerto
Theresa - Dustin O’Halloran, piano solos

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Theresa - Twitter | Website - MusicalTheresa.com | Book - Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students | Blog - Off the Beaten Path

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🎙 #13 - Exploring Noteflight Learn, with John Mlynczak

John Mlynczak returns to the show to discuss Noteflight's new integration with Sound Check and offers advice to educators about teaching online this fall, and what we can learn from it.

Show Notes:

App of the Week: Robby - Kindle/Audible | John - TikTok

Album of the Week: Robby - Igor Levit - Beethoven Piano Sonatas | John - Hamilton on Disney+

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book | John - Twitter

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🎙 #12 - Making Music and Podcasts Using Soundtrap, with Meredith Allen

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Meredith Allen, Sales Enablement Manager at Soundtrap, joins the show to talk about using Soundtrap in the music classroom to create music and podcasts, getting acquired by Spotify, and wearing hard pants.

Show Notes:

App of the Week: Robby - Permute Meredith - Innovators Compass

Album of the Week: Robby - Dreams Come True | Love Goes On Meredith - Rocketman Soundtrack

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Meredith - Twitter | Website

🎙 #11 - New Announcements from Apple, with Craig McClellan

🎙 #10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne

Robby’s Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include:

  • Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos
  • The importance of developing audiation in student musicians
  • The strengths of binary performance rubrics
  • Art vs. Craft
  • Understanding relational databases
  • Data-driven music teaching (the good kind)
  • Lots more music teaching philosophy

Show Notes:

App of the Week: Robby - Discord Ben - IDAGIO

Album of the Week: Robby - Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground Ben - Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog Ben - EMMS Music | HoCoYo

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Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database:

Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left)

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Example of the music packets that FileMaker generates for our students:

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🎙 #9 - Automate All The Things! with Craig McClellan

Craig returns to talk about automating bedtime routines with Shortcuts, HomeKit automation, automating the Mac, our decision to end The Class Nerd podcast, and more.

Show Notes:

App of the Week: Robby - DEVONthink Craig McClellan - Dark Noise

Album of the Week: Robby - Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters Craig McClellan - Shawn McConnell: Live From Basement East

Where to Find Us: Craig McClellan: Twitter | Website Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 #8 - Diversifying Your Career and Your Programming, with Lori Schwartz Reichl

Friend and colleague, Lori Schwartz Reichl, joins the show to talk about student and teacher engagement, the up-sides of teaching private lessons remotely, broadening her teaching career beyond the classroom, the Institute for Composer Diversity, and much more!

Show Notes:

-Lori’s website - Making Key Changes

-Zoom - Recording both sides of the conversation as two separate audio tracks

-Peloton 

-Peloton App

-Joanna Stern - Laptop webcam showdown

-https://makingkeychanges.com/reflection

-Lori’s YouTube Page

-Mirror Mirror on the Wall. . . Am I Providing Opportunities Reflecting All? | NAfME Blog | by Lori Schwartz Reichl

-A Personal and Professional Pivot - Make it Simple, Not Stressful | NAfME Blog | by Lori Schwartz Reichl

-Andrew Hitz 

-Music Ed Tech Talk - #4 - The Most Validating Day of my Life, with Andrew Hitz

-Institute for Composer Diversity

-Regional Repertory Wind Ensemble

-Tyler Grant

- NAfME’s Music in a Minute Blog, Lori’s Appearances

An opportunity from Lori:

“I'm thrilled to join our co-founders of Women Banding Together”

(Virginia Allen, Laura Johnson, and Jenny L. Neff) as we host our inaugural panel discussion:

”Transitioning with Resilience“ - on Monday, May 18 at 3:00 pm ET via Zoom.

RSVP for Zoom details at here.

App of the Week: 

Robby - LumaFusion 

Lori - Acapella 

Album of the Week:

Robby - Nate Smith: Light and Shadows

Lori Reichl - “One Voice”: A Holiday Presentation by The United States Army Field Band

Where to Find Us:

Lori Reichl: YouTube | Website 

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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