Music Ed Tech Talk

Robby discusses the practices and technology we should TAKE, LEAVE, and use to TRANSFORM teaching next year.

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Show Notes:

• What Do We Keep? - Session Notes from the Conference
• What Do We Keep? - NAfME Blog
• My recent appearance on the MusicFirst Podcast
• Remix Assignment Blog Post
• Remix Assignment YouTube Tutorial
• Putting the E in Ensemble Curriculum and Resources
• Podcast Interview with Alex Shapiro
• The virtual performance referenced in the video was the Ellicott Mills Middle School Woodwind Quintet performing Divertimento for Woodwind Quintet (Joseph Haydn)
• David MacDonald and I talk about apps for Research and Remembering
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts, appearance on this show
• Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne

Dorico is out for iPad! Daniel Spreadbury (Product Marketing Manager) joins me to talk about it. Subscribe to the Blog… RSS | Email Newsletter

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Show Notes:

• Dorico, featuring Daniel Spreadbury (Season 3, Episode 2)
• Dorico website
• My blog post–> Dorico for iPad: First Impressions
• Video demo of Dorico for iPad

Robby and David compare smart speakers, their assistants, and their smart home ecosystems. This episode covers the HomePod, Google Nest, Amazon Echo, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Sonos speakers, and the various quirks that result from trying to use them in combination. Backstage Access Patreon supporters get extended conversation about Apple Notes, DEVONthink, Standard Music Font Layout compatibility, FileMaker databases, student motivation, grading (and ungrading), and sticker charts. Subscribe to the Blog… RSS | Email Newsletter

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Show Notes:

• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
• Zach Gage apps
• Apple Arcade
• Scoring Notes: Learning how to use music notation software
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 34 - WWDC 2021
• Soro- Sonos Siri Shortcuts app
• Scary Pockets vinyl Patreon 
• _DavidSmith apps–> Watchsmith and Widgetsmith
• Stream Deck
• My appearance on the MusicFirst podcast
• My podcast featuring Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis

App of the Week: 
Robby - HomeRun 2
David MacDonald - Letterpress

Album of the Week:
Robby - Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
David MacDonald - Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Ursula Oppens | The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Kaj Schumacher | Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Use a clipboard manager
David MacDonald - New stream deck store!

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David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Composer Alex Shapiro joins the show to talk about a little bit of everything!--> getting young students to compose, the importance of composing repertoire for young musicians, writing electro-acoustic music, her curriculum Putting the E in Ensemble, the social implications of modern and future technology, her amazing studio space, and more. Join Patreon for extended conversation about technology and overcoming blocks in the creative process.

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Putting the E in Ensemble Links

Curriculum: - https://www.alexshapiro.org/Shapiro-E-ensemble_Syllabus.html

Wind Band music: - https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASWindBand.html

Show Notes:

The Great Hack - Netflix

The Social Dilemma - Netflix 

Christopher Cicconi appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk

Off the Edge - Alex Shapiro

Tight Squeeze - Alex Shapiro

Rock Music - Alex Shapiro

Count to Ten - Alex Shapiro

Toothpaste privacy Tweet thread

Apple WWDC 2021

My Scale Play-Along Tracks

App of the Week: 

Robby - Magnet

Alex - Two Dots / SpellTower

Album of the Week:

Robby - Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite

Alex - O Seguinte é Esse / Howling, featuring RY X and Frank Wiedemann: Sacred Ground

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Try widgets!

Alex - Back up your stuff! / Let other people beta test

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Alex - Twitter | Website

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Robby and Craig break down the announcements from Apple’s Word Wide Developer Conference and discuss how teachers might use the upcoming features to their latest software updates.

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Description

Robby overviews his three most successful Soundtrap projects in 2021.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:00:14 - Sponsor: DMV Percussion Academy
• 00:01:24 - About this Episode
• 00:03:51 - YAY SUMMER
• 00:05:11 - 1: Melody Composition / Loop Accompaniment
• 00:14:35 - 1: Student Examples
• 00:16:15 - 2: Row Your Boat Multi-Track
• 00:22:19 - 2: Student Examples
• 00:24:27 - 3: All Star Remix
• 00:34:38 - 3: Student Examples
• 00:36:00 - Grading for Mastery Not Creativity
• 00:37:47 - Tech Tip of the Week
• 00:39:20 - App of the Week
• 00:40:00 - Album of the Week
• 00:42:44 - Conclusion

Show Notes:

• Noteflight
• Soundtrap
• MusicFirst
• How to Make a Song Remix Project in Soundtrap (Blog Post and YouTube Video)
• Reddit: Isolated Vocals
• Neural Mix Pro
• Lalal.ai 

App of the Week: 
Reeder 5

Album of the Week:
Alison Balsom - Paris

Where to Find Us:

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Ethan and Will join the show to talk about their book Electronic Music School, the Prime Directive, writing apps, and the future of the iPad.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:25 - Sponsor: DMV Percussion Academy
• 00:02:03 - Star Trek
• 00:04:18 - Electronic Music School
• 00:10:09 - Teaching Underlying Musical Concepts of Electronic Music Styles
• 00:18:33 - Perceived Threat by Traditional Performing Arts Teachers
• 00:24:28 - Teaching Songwriting
• 00:27:23 - Scaffolding
• 00:37:15 - Fighting Racism with Music Education
• 00:48:37 - The Prime Directive
• 00:52:34 - Staying Relevant?
• 01:07:15 - We Live on Twitter
• 01:07:15 - Writing Apps
• 01:13:21 - Bedtime
• 01:16:07 - The M1 iPad Pro
• 01:35:51 - Tech Tip of the Week
• 01:38:14 - Album of the Week
• 01:41:07 - App of the Week
• 01:43:24 - Closing

Show Notes:

• Electronic Music School - PRE ORDER NOW
• Ethan’s student’s songwriting projects: example 1 | example 2 | example 3
• Vektroid / Macintosh Plus - Bandcamp | Floral Shoppe | Twitter | Neo Cali full album
• Scrivener
• OmniOutliner
• MindNode
• Music Ed Tech Talk #31 - forScore for the Mac, featuring David MacDonald
• AirServer
• Poolside.fm
• Toggle Rotation Lock when Using YouTube

App of the Week: 
Robby - Tot
Will - In Haler Radio
Ethan - Figure

Album of the Week:
Robby - Tauk - Shapeshifter II: Outbreak
Will - Suburban Lawns - Janitor (Original Video)
Ethan - Clipping - The Deep

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Will - Twitter | Website
Ethan - Twitter | Website

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Robby and David talk about forScore for the Mac and its new syncing feature. But also, lots of music theory.

Also included:

• Loop-based music theory
• GoodNotes for the Mac
• Transcribe Apps
• Tech podcasts we like
• Music YouTubers we like
• Our favorite music, tech tips, and albums of the week

Show Notes:

• David's other appearances on this show: #30 - Apps for Research and Remembering | #16 - Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech | #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music
• Adam Neely
• 12tone
• What Key is Sweet Home Alabama In?
• What Key is Hey Joe In?
• Philip Tagg
• Robby’s Tweet Thread about teaching music theory to middle school students
• Megan Lavengood Twitter
• Megan Lavengood appearance on Sound Expertise
• Will Robin Twitter
• forScore for the Mac
• Daring Fireball
• The Talk Show
• John Gruber and Ben Thompson on what makes the iPad the iPad
• Indexing a forScore Real Book
• Mac Catalyst
• David MacDonald Scoring Notes iPad score reader blog post
• AirServer
• GoodNotes
• Broadcasts app
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Fission audio editor
• DJay app
• Neural Mix Pro
• Anytune
• Transcribe!
• Transcribe+
• The Amazing Slow Downer
• Darcy James Argue
• Darcy James Argue Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon Score
• Filmic Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe Premiere
• Setapp
• Loopback
• OmniGraffle

App of the Week: 
Robby - Soro for Sonos
David MacDonald - Diagrams

Album of the Week:

Robby - Lettuce - Elevate
David MacDonald - Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society - Brooklyn Babalyon 

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David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Composer and teacher, David MacDonald, returns for a discussion about the apps we use for notes, research, writing, and clipping data to find later.

Other topics:

• What kinds of work goes in which kinds of apps
• Digital research tools
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Streaming / virtual teaching tools
• Music theory YouTubers
• Zooming in to your Mac screen
• Quickly taking a screenshot with the Apple Pencil
• Our favorite music and apps of the week

Show Notes:

• Craft app
• Logic
• Audio Hijack
• Descript
• Evernote
• MarginNote
• DEVONthink
• Pinboard
• Bear Notes
• Drafts
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts - Guest appearance on this show
• Ulysses
• NAfME Blog Post 1 - Digital Organization Tools for Music Educators
• NAfME Blog Post 2 - Apps to Help With Time Management and Planning
• GoodNotes
• Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald (the one where we talk about GoodNotes)
• Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech, with David MacDonald (the one where we talk about streaming)
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Susan Blum - Ungrading
• Instapaper
• Readwise
• MindNode
• OBS blog post - Hypercharging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software
• Stream Deck
• Philip Ewell
• Adam Neely - Music Theory and White Supremacy
• 12tone on YouTube

App of the Week:  Robby - Stream Deck Mobile App David MacDonald - Reincubate Camo & FiLMiC Pro

Album of the Week: Robby - Owane | Yolo EP Vol. 1 David MacDonald - Scary Pockets YouTube channel

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Robby explains how he uses Noteflight, Soundtrap, and Flipgrid to create engaging, asynchronous, assignments for students in his performing ensembles.

Show Notes

• Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software - Video and Blog Post
• TMEA Session Notes
• Noteflight
• Soundtrap
• Flipgrid
• Scanner Pro
• Scanbot
• Sheet Music Scanner App
• METT Episode 28 - Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely
• Learn more about Noteflight on METT #13 - Exploring Noteflight Learn, with John Mlynczak
• Learn more about Soundtrap on METT #12 - Making Music and Podcasts Using Soundtrap, with Meredith Allen
• Learn more about Flipgrid on METT #14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, with Theresa Hoover Ducassoux

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Robby explains the software, hardware, and teaching strategies he uses to run engaging and effective music rehearsals in a remote or hybrid environment.

This information was presented earlier this month at the Maryland Music Educators Association conference. The notes and links below are from the session notes of that presentation.

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Abstract

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!

Links

Broadcasting Software

• Open Broadcaster Software
• Blog Post: Hyper-Charging Online Classes with OBS
• AirServer
• Stream Deck
• Teaching Tech: Live keyboard overlay in Zoom (This Page Left Intentionally Useless - David MacDonald’s blog)
• Virtual Camera Plug-in
• Instructions for setting up AirServer as a scene in OBS
• Streamlabs OBS
• Tip! - In order to zoom in on your screen on a Mac while presenting, you can do the following: Go to System Preferences—>Accessibility—>Zoom and check on “Use scroll gesture with moifier keys to zoom.” I set up my modifier key as Control so that when I hold Control and scroll up, my screen zooms in.

Audio Routing

• Loopback
• Blog Post: Routing Audio From Your Apps Directly Into Your Zoom or Google Meet with Loopback
• Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps - Interview with CEO Paul Kafasis
• Black Hole
• Soundsource
• VB-Audio
• Presonus Revelator Mic (comes with Loopback-like software and Studio One recording software)
• Soundboard apps

Making Play-Along Tracks

• Audio Hijack
• Pietzo
• Farrago
• AnyTune
• Amazing Slow Downer
• Transcribe!
• Smart Music
• Mainstage
• Apple Pro Apps Bundle - Educator Discount

Visual Presentation

• forScore
• GoodNotes
• Classroom Maestro
• VMPK
• Jamboard

Recommended Hardware

• Scarlet Solo (audio interface)
• Audio Technica AT2020 (microphone)
• External monitor
• Twelve South StayGo USB Hub
• Elago Stream Deck
• Stream Deck app - turns your mobile device into a stream deck for a small subscription price

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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

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Shawna - Twitter | Website

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Technology trainer and speaker, Katie Wardrobe, joins the show to talk about producing technology training and resources for music teachers. (And way more)

Topics include:

• Katie’s exceptional website: Midnight Music
• Free vs. paid software
• Teaching facing / student facing software
• M1 and Intel Macs
• Tools Katie uses to make content
• Canva
• File Management on iPad
• Podcasting
• Managing big projects
• Our recent favorite tech tips, albums, and apps

Show Notes:

• Midnight Music: Simplifying technology for music teachers
• Rogue Amoeba
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Loopback
• MusicFirst
• Noteflight Learn
• Soundtrap
• M1 Macs
• Canva
• Pixelmator
• Affinity Designer
• Affinity Photo
• WeVideo
• Working with Files on the iPad
• Syncing a File Between Logic and GarageBand (iOS) Through iCloud
• Katie’s podcast: Music Technology Teacher Podcast
• Profile Pic Maker
• Upgrade Podcast
• Mac Power Users
• Libsyn Podcast Hosting
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, With Theresa Hoover Ducassoux 
• OmniFocus
• OmniFocus Project Templates
• Music Ed Tech Talk: Never Miss a Task, with Project Templates
• My appearance on LearnOmniFocus.com
• Asana
• Trello
• Todoist
• Loom
• Screenflow
• Screencastify
• Music Ed Tech Talk: Hyper-Charging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software
• Broadway Is Closed, But Ratatouille the Musical Is Cooking on TikTok | Vulture
• Ben Thompson: Stratechery
• World Time Buddy
• Calendly
• Doodle
• @_Davidsmith
• Widgetsmith
• Dirty Loops
• Scary Pockets
• The Third Story Podcast, with Leo Sidran - Cory Henry Interview

Katie’s Home Screen

 

 

 

 

Robby’s Homescreen

 

 

 

 

App of the Week: 
Robby - CalZones
Katie - DaVinci Resolve

Album of the Week:
Robby - Tye Tribbett Apple Music Essentials Playlist
Katie - The Arcadian Wild | Cory Wong & Metropole Orkest

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Katie - Twitter | Website

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Rob Knopper (Metropolitan Opera, auditionhacker, percussionhacker) joins the show to talk about mastering practice, improving the audition process, and using technology to support his multifaceted efforts as a performing percussionist, teacher, and creator of web resources for musicians.

Other topics include:

• How to Practice With Technology
• Technology for Making Content 
• Developing Diverse Skills/Remaining Teachable
• Finding Generalized vs. Specialist Mentors
• Comprehensively Studying Masterworks and Making Practice Resources for Them
• Acquiring Phrasing Language
• Teaching Students to Recognize Mastery
• Embracing Failure/Auditions Are Process Not Product
• Our album and app picks of the week

Show Notes:

• Rob Knopper site
• Rob Knopper on The Entrepreneurial Musician, with Andrew Hitz
• Evernote
• Audio-Technica AT4040 
• Final Cut Pro - Try free for 90 days
• Adobe Premiere
• Adam Tan
• Ben Thompson - Stratechery
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode #23 Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• IDAGIO - Classical music streaming service
• Izotope RX Restoration Noise Plugins

App of the Week: 
Robby - SoundSource
Rob Knopper - Anki

Album of the Week:
Robby - An Oscar Petersen Christmas
Rob Knopper - Pictures at an Exhibition | Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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Rob Knopper - Twitter | Website

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Richard McCready returns to the show to bring in the new year. We reflect on what we learned over the past year and discuss how music teachers can challenge their perception of tradition, creativity, and learning process, moving forward. Of course we also share our app and album picks of the week.

Show Notes:

METT Season 2, Episode 1 - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers with Guest Richard McCready (Richard’s last appearance on this show)
Maggie Shorb on Twitter
Essential Music Technology: The Prestissimo Series (Oxford University Press) RiverHillMusicTech.com
Truckin' My Blues Away - Blind Boy Fuller

App of the Week: 
Robby - Apollo
Richard - Jamzone

Album of the Week:
Robby - Christmas with Travelin Light
Richard - Classic Delta and Deep South Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

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Richard - Twitter | Website

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Paul Kafasis, CEO of Rogue Amoeba, joins Robby to talk about the stellar audio apps they make and how Robby is using them in the music classroom both before and during COVID.

Show Notes:

Rogue Amoeba Website: Macaudio.com

Robby’s Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks
Stream Deck

Rogue Amoeba Apps:

Audio Hijack
Loopback
Sound Source
Piezo
Farrago
Fission
Airfoil
Ultimate Podcast Bundle
Educator Discount and Volume Pricing

My blog post on Audio Hijack
My blog post on Loopback 

Mimeo Photos Extension for the Mac | Make premium printed photo projects right on your Mac

Acorn | Full Featured Photo Editor for the Mac

App of the Week: 
Robby - Pixelmator Pro
Paul - Tot

Album of the Week:
Robby - Charlie XCX | How I’m Feeling Now
Paul - The Colour and the Shape | Foo Fighters

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Paul - Twitter | Website

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Show Notes:

• Tyler S. Grant
• Brian Balmages
• Sibelius
• Dorico
• StaffPad for iPad
• Copy and paste from StaffPad with finger gestures
• Logic Pro
• Ableton Live
• OmniFocus
• Freedom app
• My Store | robbyburns.com/store
• Robby’s Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks
• Sponsor Music Ed Tech Talk
• Last Episode’s Show Notes (complete with TikTok concerning the recent “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” Decoration Meme"
• Disney Gallery - Star Wars: The Mandalorian
• Ludwig Göransson
• Childish Gambino - “Awaken, My Love”
• Black Panther (Original Score)
• Lianne La Havas - Self Titled Album

App of the Week: 
Robby - Christmas Time Shortcut
Tyler - UCLA Music Theory App

Album of the Week:
Robby - NPR The 50 Best Albums of 2020 - An Apple Music Playlist
Tyler - West Side Story - 1984 Recording (Documentary) 

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Tyler - Instagram | Website

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Robby’s cohost from The Class Nerd podcast, Craig McClellan, returns to talk about recent smart home and Apple purchases, speakers with digital assistants, technology and music we are thankful for.

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Show Notes:

The Class Nerd Podcast - Listen to Craig and I talk about using technology in the classroom
Philips Hue Bulbs
Lutron Caseta Light Switches
MyQ Garage Door Opener
Netatmo HomeKit Doorbell
Nest Hello Doorbell
Starling.io
Eero
Sonos One
Craig’s Guitar:
Cory Wong
Vulfpeck
Robby’s Viral TikTok: 

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Will Kuhn joins the show to talk about Apple’s new Macs, teaching electronic music, home automation, and his forthcoming book, Electronic Music School.

Show Notes:

We recorded this episode right after last week's Apple event! People have now used and reviewed these machines! I recommend this one, this one, and this one.

Other topics include:

• Apple in education
• M1 chip implications for audio software
• Other Apple Fall announcements and products
• Ableton Live 11

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Stuff mentioned:

• Neural Mix Pro
• METT Season 2, Episode 8 - Will’s Last appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk (previously, Robby Burns and Friends)
• My Book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
• My Scale Play Along Tracks
• METT Season 4, Episode 2 - Hop-Hop in Music Education, Music Education in Hip-Hop, with Ethan Hein
• The Ethan Hein Blog
• Will’s book - Interactive Composition: Strategies Using Ableton Live and Max for Live
• Apple Silicon, Macs in Education, and App-Centric Learning | Music Ed Tech Talk – Robby Burns
• Making the Grade: What will Apple Silicon mean for Apple’s education strategy? | 9to5Mac – Bradley Chambers 
• ClassKit | Apple Classroom API
• Ikea Smart Lighting
• Philips Hue Smart Lights
• Nest Hello Doorbell
• Netatmo HomeKit Doorbell
• Starling Home Hub - connect Nest to Apple HomeKit
• Homebridge
• Dyson hot+cool Air Purifier 
• homebridge-dyson-link | Homebridge Plugin for Dyson hot+cool
• Hue Sync Lights for TV
• BT - The Lost Art of Longing
• Poolside.fm
• FOR SALE: TRACK 10 ON VULFPECK’S NEW RECORD

App of the Week: 
Robby - Neural Mix Pro
Will - Ableton Live 11

Album of the Week:
Robby - Vulfpeck | The Joy of Music The Job of Real Estate
Will - Machinedrum - A View of U | beabadoobee

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Will - Twitter | Website

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Dr. Frank Buck returns to the show for Part 2 of the Productivity Boot Camp mini-series to talk all about managing calendars, handling email, time tracking, and automation!

Dr. Frank Buck is a productivity master with a background in band directing and administration. I share my knowledge of Apple products and native third-party apps, and he shares his experience with web-based, cross-platform apps.

Show Notes:

• Google Calendar
• Fantastical
• If This Than That
• Get IFTTT Pro on sale until October 31!
• Zapier
• Toggl
• Timery
• Evernote
• If This Then That: My Dozen Most Powerful Applets | Frankbuck.org
• How to Use Evernote to Track Your Time | Frankbuck.org
• Screen Snips with 1 Key: My New Favorite Shortcut | Frankbuck.org
• Spark Email App
• Outlook Email App
• Save to Google Drive Extension
• OmniFocus
• DEVONthink
• SaneBox
• Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome
• TextEpander
• Tapes - Screen recorder for Mac. Share screencasts fast.
• Feedly
• Feedbin
• Apollo: Reddit Client for iOS
• 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. | NTY

App of the Week: 
Robby - Reeder 5
Frank Buck - Snipboard.io

Album of the Week:
Robby - Palo Alto | Thelonious Monk
Frank Buck - Christmas Portrait | The Carpenters

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