Growing up, one of my least favorite things to do was attend recitals. I think most of the other students and audience members felt the same way. So it has been my personal mission to make our studio recitals not only tolerable, but immensely enjoyable and something that students and families look forward to. It […]
Technology Tips
Encouraging Students to Listen to Their Playing
As part of my practice incentive theme this year, students have the option to do an audio or video recording of them playing one of their pieces. Just about every student today has the tools to do recordings on their own – via a digital camera with video recording capabilities, a phone, an ipod or […]
Free eBook – Go Play
Have you seen Catherine Shefski’s free eBook, “Go Play“? One of the teachers in our local association alerted us to it and we used it as the basis for our discussion at our local association meeting last week. Our official discussion topic was, “The Millenial Student,” and another teacher also shared several recent magazine articles […]
2010 ASMTA Conference – Practical Technology Tools in the Music Studio – Jennifer Foxx
Guest post by Jennifer Foxx I had the opportunity to do an encore presentation this year at the state conference on a topic that I enjoy. I think for some teachers, when they hear the word technology they panic, thinking it’s way too complicated or they just have no desire to be a part of […]
137 Tech Resources for Teachers and Students
Looking for just the right resource or program to energize your teaching, inspire your students, or just add to the fun of teaching? You’ll probably find it on this massive list of 137 Tech Resources for Teachers and Students, compiled by Joel of the So You Want to Teach? blog. This is a great list […]
MuseScore – A Free Notation Software
I’ve been hearing rumblings about MuseScore for several weeks, but Joy’s review of it earlier this week prompted me to finally take a closer look. Like Joy, I was very disappointed to find that Finale decided to charge for the NotePad software that they previously offered free of charge. I had quite a few students […]
