Do you send out any kind of newsletter or communication to your students besides your blog and web site? For many years I created and sent out a really nice printed newsletter called “Noteworthy News” with info about upcoming events, pictures and recognition of students, a question of the month, trivia tidbits, etc. Once I […]
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Organizing Printed Music
Most of us music teachers have advanced well beyond the stage of OPBS (Overflowing Piano Bench Syndrome) into OBSS (Overflowing Book Shelf Syndrome). Books and sheet music are piled onto shelf after shelf, and it is a well-kept secret as to which book or piece is in which stack. 🙂 I just received an e-mail […]
School of Everything
There are an increasing number of places on-line that serve as a one-stop shop for various types of classes and lessons. School of Everything is a new such site that just launched in September of this year, but is off to a running start! I haven’t explored it in great detail yet, but it looks […]
Studio Policy Website
Susan Todd has revamped the Studio Policy Website and just went live with it a couple of days ago. In addition to studio policies, there are a number of other teaching ideas and resources that any teacher, but especially beginning teachers, will find invaluable. When the members from our Pno-Ped-L e-mail group first started discussing […]
Computer Lab Signup Sheet
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve instituted a rather informal computer lab option in my studio this semester. Students can opt to sign up for an additional 15 minutes in the computer lab either before or after their lesson time. This is a simple, generic form I created for the students to sign up […]
How to Register Your Own Domain Name and Point it to Any Website
I just gave a workshop last weekend to our local music teachers association on setting up your own website. Regardless of whether you are designing your own site from scratch or are using a pre-designed website from another provider (like Music Teacher’s Helper), you will definitely want to set up your own domain name so […]
