🎙 Music Ed Tech Talk #27 - Catching Up With Shawna Longo, with Shawna Longo

Shawna Longo joins the show to talk about our hybrid teaching gear, social emotional learning, cloud-based music tools, and our favorite apps/albums/tech tips of the week.

Topics include:

• COVID hybrid teaching strategies
• Teaching hardware (on a cart!)
• Teaching performance virtually
• social emotional learning
• music tools in the cloud
• the Canvas mastery grade book

Show Notes:

• Shawna's Microphone (Presonus Revelator)
• Shawna's Generic AirPods (Altec Lansing True Evo Air Wireless Earbuds w/ wireless charging case)
• Universal Control app
• Loopback
• Rogue Amoeba
• Music Ed Tech Talk episode #23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Presonus Studio One
• Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software - My Presentation at the Texas Music Educators Association conference
• Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely! - My Presentation at the MarylandMEA conference (Session Notes)
• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
• The Playful Classroom
• MusicFirst Junior
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode #10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne
• Spark Chasers Podcast
• Brene Brown Podcasts

Tech Tips of the Week:
Robby - Command+K (or Control+K) will create a hyperlink
Shawna - Mute All for Google Meet | Use AirPod mic as input in Google Meet

App of the Week:
Robby - TIDAL Shawna - Scannable

Album of the Week:
Robby - Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa Shawna - Happiness Begins - The Jonas Brothers

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

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"Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely!" at the MMEA Inservice Conference this Saturday, March 5

If you are a NAfME or MMEA member, please join Maryland at our Inservice Conference this weekend. I will be presenting a session titled Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely! on Saturday, March 6 at 5:45 pm.

Here is the session description:

Learn the strategies and technologies to run engaging synchronous rehearsals. Engage students visually and speed up your flow using Open Broadcasting Software. Pump the sound video/music/play-along tracks directly through Zoom or Google Meet for a lag-free experience. Explore play along with resources, student reflection with Google Docs, effective camera/mic practices, and have students working collaboratively in synchronous chamber ensembles with Soundtrap! Software discussed includes: Keynote, Google Slides, Loopback, Soundsource, Farrago, AnyTune, Soundtrap, Smartmusic!

🎬 Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software

I have been meaning to write about "what I have been doing for online learning" since the fall.

This has proven difficult for many reasons, mostly that there is a lot I have been doing and it is all interconnected.

Generally, my planning and technology use has fallen into two categories.

1. Tech that supports synchronous classes (via Zoom/Google Meet/etc.)

2. Tech that supports the asynchronous work (via LMS, cloud-based and student-facing software, etc.)

Fortunately, I was invited to present at two music conferences this year, MMEA and TMEA, and each of my accepted sessions has serendipitously aligned with each of those areas.

This presentation in the video above is an overview of the asynchronous part. In other words, how I am keeping my virtual instruction focused on playing instruments solo, through student-facing tools like Noteflight, Soundtrap, Flipgrid, and a handful of iOS utility apps.

These strategies were developed while I was teaching virtually but they can just as easily be used in a hybrid or in-person teaching model. I would argue that they are just as valuable in either of those environments.

This presentation was first given at TMEA on Saturday, February 14th, 2021.

You can view the notes to this session here.