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Podcast Episode

🎙 #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)

Performancerecord

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

Orangeflutepacket

🎙 #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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🎙 #7 - Working with StaffPad for iPadOS, with Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons

This week, Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons join my show. We catch up on recent news in music ed tech, discuss what we are doing for distance learning, and then discuss how we have been using the new StaffPad for iPadOS app.

View the show notes here or listen below.

Chris and Paul, co-hosts of the Music Education & Technology Podcast, rejoin the show to talk about how we are doing for distance learning, StaffPad for iPadOS, and other recent news in music technology education.

Show Notes:

App of the Week: 

Robby - Slack

Paul - Cubasis 3

Chris - LumaFusion

Album of the Week:

Robby - It Is What It Is | Thundercat

Paul - You and I | Wycliffe Gordon and Marty Erickson 

Chris -

Bring Me Sunshine | The Jive Aces

Yesterday | Billie Eilish

Where to Find Us:

Paul Shimmons: Twitter | Website 

Chris Russell: Twitter | Website

Robby Burns: Twitter| Blog

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🎙 #5 - Yours in Quarantine, with Julianna Mateyko

Julianna Mateyko, Director of Support and Training for MusicFirst, joins the show to give me customer support. Other topics include: teaching music remote, quarantined lifestyles, Instacart, and cute life-simulator games as a form of escapism in the age of COVID. Also, our favorite albums and apps of the week.

Show Notes:

- MusicFirst

- Jim Frankel - Director of MusicFirst

- Animal Crossing

- Sharing Apple Notes

- Instacart

- Doordash

- Sign In With Apple

- SAMR Model for Technology (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) ... Julianna refers to this as the three levels of technology in the episode

- Soundtrap

- Noteflight 

- Barbara Freedman (Website) (Twitter)

- Zoom 

- MusicFirst Customer Support Page

- Google Chrome

- MusicFirst iOS App

- O-Generator for iOS

- Soundtrap for iOS

- Spotify

- Musictheory.net

- In Tune Monthly

- type “yourdomainhere/support/userguide” to get to the user guides

- type “yourdomainhere/support/tutorials” to view the video guides 

- Icon Factory

App of the Week: 

Robby - Tot - An elegant, simple way to collect & edit text on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Julianna Mateyko - Stardew Valley

Album of the Week:

Robby - 3.15.20 by Childish Gambino

Julianna Mateyko - covers and more - A Spotify playlist of covers brought to you by Julianna

Where to Find Us:

Julianna Mateyko: Twitter

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 #4 - The Most Validating Day of My Life, with Andrew Hitz

Andrew Hitz (former tuba player for Boston Brass, professor at Shenandoah University, speaker, creator, and podcaster) joins the show to talk about portfolio careers, being an entrepreneurial musician, confident self-promotion, apps we’re using, classical music subscription services, and Phish. And as usual, way more...

Show Notes:

Baltimore Brass - Amazing Instrument and Repair Shop in Baltimore, Maryland

AndrewHitz.com

Boston Brass

The Brass Junkies

TEM.fm

Me Asking Andrew A Question

TEM Episode 206 with Amanda Gookin

Andrew Hitz Twitter

Band Directors Guidebook

Crush it - Gary Vaynerchuk

My book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers | Oxford University Press

GroupMe

Ship It - Seth Godin

Joe Alessi 

Presidio Brass

Parker Mouthpieces

Brass Chats

Tech Tools Andrew is Using:

- Audible

- This is Marketing on Audible

- Slack

- Tonal Energy Tuner

TEM Episode 174: Sam Pilafian on Producing

Rick Beato: Perfect Pitch: The World’s Greatest Ear | Music Notation!

My StaffPad Review 

Leo Laporte 

IDAGIO 

Clairières: Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulange

Digital Concert Hall - Currently free for the month! 

Phish Concert 12/31/93 - Harry Hood (Hitz’s first Phish show)

The Most Validating Day of My Life —Andrewhitz.com  (Hitz takes Sam Pilafian to his first Phish show)

Punch Brothers

App of the Week: 

Robby - StaffPad for iPadOS

Andrew Hitz - Better Ears - Eartrainer

Album of the Week:

Robby - Brilliant Corners | Thelonious Monk (Not mentioned on air) 

Andrew Hitz - Andris Nelsons | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Shostakovich Symphonies No's. 6 & 7 

Where to Find Us:

Andrew Hitz: Twitter | Website 

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 #3 - iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina, with Paul Shimmons

Paul Shimmons, author of iPad and Technology in Music Ed, joins the show to talk about Apple’s new software releases: iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina. But we also find time to talk about our favorite apps, microphones, recording workflows, subscription pricing for software, Siri Shortcuts, iPad apps for Mac, the new iPhone, and the new Apple Watch.

Show Notes:

Due to a bug in my version of Shortcuts, I am currently unable to share shortcuts. I hope to update this soon.

  • Tonal Energy Tuner Siri Shortcuts

Go to Preferences and select Siri Shortcuts. Tap on the action you would like to turn into a shortcut and then assign a Siri phrase for it.

App of the Week:
Paul Shimmons - Newzik

Robby - Pixelmator Photo

Album of the Week:
Paul Shimmons - Steven Meade - Diamonds

Robby - Sturgil Simpson - SOUND $ FURY

Where to Find Us
Paul Shimmons: Twitter | iPad & Technology in Music Ed

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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