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...

Show Notes:

Everything Band: Episode 170 - Theresa Hoover Ducassoux
Lori Schwartz Reichl
Music Ed Tech Talk #8 - Diversifying Your Career and Your Programing, with Lori Schwartz Reichl
Getting Things Done Methodology
OmniFocus
Inbox Zero
MusicFirst
SmartMusic
Noteflight Learn
Soundtrap
Flipgrid
Kahoot
Google Teacher Certification
Google: The Anywhere School 2020
Kathryn Finch: Website | Twitter
Scrivener
TextExpander
Jamboard
Getting Started with Google Jamboard | Off the Beaten Path - Theresa Ducassoux
Using Jamboard in the Music Classroom | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns
Flat.io
Routing Audio From Your Apps Directly Into Your Zoom or Google Meet (Or Other Digital Meeting Platform) | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns
Rogue Amoeba
Audio Hijack
Rhiannon Giddens to Lead Silkroad’s Musical Explorations | NYT
Microsoft Teams
New Google Meet features
Google Calendar
Google Slides
Google Keep
Evernote
OneNote
Google Duo, Google Meet, Google Hangouts (?)
Omnifocus Project Templates
Never Miss a Task, With Project Templates | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns
Music Ed Tech Talk #10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne
Making Just Intonation Play Along Tracks for Your Performing Ensemble (Using Tonal Energy and Garageband) | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns

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

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Robby Burns

July 1, 2020

Video Feature

🎬 How to Make a Virtual Ensemble!

Robby Burns

July 1, 2020

Video Feature

The school year is finally over, as is my first ever quarter of online teaching.

I wanted my students to end the year seeing themselves represented together, playing the same music, at the same time. So I sharpened my Final Cut skills and dove into the process of making a virtual ensemble.

The video in this post gives an overview of my process for making these videos, all the way from making a play along track, to advanced editing such as pitch and rhythm correction. The video includes a couple of my favorite Mac utilities for manipulating audio and video files. Scroll to the bottom to see all of the final videos of my students.

Apps Mentioned in the Video

If you want free alternatives to the apps in the video, try:

VLC - for file conversion
The Amazing Slow Downer - for slowing down audio tracks

To edit on iPadOS, try:

Ferrite - for audio editing
LumaFusion - for video editing

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Here are the final videos...

Robby Burns

October 19, 2017

Presentation Notes

🗒 MMEA Session Notes - Working With Digital Scores

Robby Burns

October 19, 2017

Presentation Notes

Tomorrow I will be presenting at the Maryland Music Educators Association's Fall Conference. The session I am presenting is all about Working with Digital Scores. I will be covering file management, scanning, and score reading software such as forScore. I am also going to be digging in to some of the new iPad productivity features that shipped with iOS 11 last month. If you are going to be at the conference, come say hi!

Here are the session notes for the session...

Click here to view the session notes in Evernote!

Working with Digital Scores Session Notes - Robby Burns - MMEA In Service, October 20, 2017

Apps for Scanning:

Apple Notes App

Apps for Managing Files:

Files App

Apps for Working with Scores:

Notes on forScore:

Link to my blog post on creating indexes with forScore

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Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers

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Robby Burns

September 2, 2016

Watch the Video Trailer for My New Book

Robby Burns

September 2, 2016

The video trailer for my new book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers, is out!

Thanks to all who helped to make it happen...

Video produced by Four/Ten Media
Narration: Terry Eberhardt
Acting: Jennifer Retterer, Cecilia Bullough, Martin Vandenberge, Robby Burns
Editing: Kevin Eikenberg
Music: Square Peg Round Hole

Robby Burns

July 21, 2016

My book is now available on Amazon!

Robby Burns

July 21, 2016

You can now preorder Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers on Amazon. Do it!

Robby Burns

June 11, 2016

Announcing My First Book ---> Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers!

Robby Burns

June 11, 2016

I am excited to announce that I am writing a book!

Actually, I already wrote it. Oxford University Press will publish the book, "Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers," this Fall. It will be the first title in the series, "Essential Music Technology: The Prestissimo Series" with series editor, Richard McCready.

The book will focus on how technology can help rather than stifle productivity in the music teaching profession. It will address such topics as: minimizing paper, managing tasks, taking good notes, organizing iTunes playlists, understanding music streaming services, working in the cloud, and managing scores. The book will provide an overview of the apps and services I have found most useful in my teaching experience. It will include sample workflows for using these technologies in music teaching contexts.

Stay tuned to this site for more information. The blog has been quiet this year as I have spent more time writing the book. Upon release, I plan to write posts of a supplementary nature. I also plan to do a miniseries on my podcast that offers commentary on the book. I will be inviting many insightful guests on the show to discuss a different chapter each episode.

I also have a really fun video trailer in the works featuring some brilliant acting talent from my colleagues in the Howard County Public School System and some awesome editing work from the guys over at Four/Ten Media.

I hope you will pick up a copy when it is released.

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