Show Notes Greg Pierce
Referenced Stuff
Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions
Other Apps by Agile Tortoise
Terminology | Tally | Diced
Chris returns to the show to talk about Apple’s Education Event this past week.
Chris Russell
Twitter | Blog: Technology in Music Education | Podcast: Music Education Technology | Blog: Ukestuff | Youtube
Show Notes:
Apple Education Page | Keynote
Logitech Rugged Combo 2 Keyboard| Logitech Crayon
Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Logitech Crayon Stylus - The Mac Observer
Canvas Podcast - Episode #57: Apple Education Event 2018
Apple Education: Teaching Tools (Apple Classroom and Schoolwork)
Musicfirst | Soundtrap | Noteflight
Microsoft Office for iPad
Word | Excel | PowerPoint
iWork Updates
iPad Split View (Use two apps side by side)
Dorico | My interview with Daniel Spreadbury of Dorico
Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
Craig returns to the show to talk about how we manage tasks, and the apps we use to manage them. There is a strong emphasis here on two of the premium task apps for Mac and iOS, Things and OmniFocus.
This episode isn't so much a showdown between Craig and I or one app and another. It is more a celebration of the great features of pro task apps that we depend on to manage our teaching careers. For me, there is an ongoing showdown between these apps in my mind, as I constantly contemplate which tools best help my brain to stay focused on the task at hand. It was fun to process that with Craig.
Craig
Show Notes:
Task Management Apps Discussed:
Things | OmniFocus | Todoist | 2Do
GTD (Getting Things Done) Methodology - Getting Things Done by David Allen
Previous Episode with Craig: Automation and Advanced Workflows
Carrot Weather - Our Favorite Weather App for Apple Watch
Waterminder - Water Intake Tracking App
Hidrate Spark 2.0 Smart Water Bottle
Federico Viticci (Twitter | MacStories Blog)
Slack - Team Communication Tool
Daniel Spreadbury, Product Manager of notation editor, Dorico, joins the show.
Once we got going, this conversation ventured into great detail on the subject of Daniel’s start at Sibelius, using the different modes of Dorico, user interface design, the challenges of software development, the future of Dorico on mobile, and much more.
Daniel’s articulate thought and meticulous attention to detail made this a really fun episode to record. You can hear Daniel’s inner nerd pour out over every side of the product. From the backend code, to the user experience, to the customer support.
Daniel Spreadbury
Show Notes:
My Book - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
Edit: Since recording, the Dorico Manual was released in PDF form. Download here.
Paul Simmons and Chris Russell (Co-hosts of the Music Education Technology Podcast) join the show to talk about all of the new features in iOS 11. We touch on it all! The dock, multitasking, the new Files app, new Notes features, and even the iPhone X announcement. This is a great episode to listen to if you have seen Apple’s prompt to update and you are on the fence. We will walk you through all of the major changes, and how we are using them.
The Guests
Music Education Technology Podcast
Show Notes
Amy Burns’s Post About 32 Bit Apps Leaving the App Store
My post about syncing a Logic file on a Mac with a GarageBand file on an iPad
Note! In our review of all the ways to launch an app into multitasking mode that is not on the dock, I forgot one. If a Bluetooth keyboard is attached to your iPad, you can press Command+Space to launch Spotlight, search for an app, start dragging the icon, and drop it into place next to your existing app. It isn’t pretty, but it works.
The epic conclusion of season two of Robby Burns + Friends has come! Thank you for listening to this season all about my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers. The book was released one year ago this month. I have had an absolute blast interviewing music educators all year long on topics relating to organization and technology in the music classroom. Be sure to check out all of the other episodes in this series. Coming this week: Season 3!
This week Craig McClellan, of The Class Nerd, joins the show to talk abut automation and advanced workflows. We will save you 1,000s of clicks!
Show Notes: Craig McClellan
Craig on Twitter | The Class Nerd Blog | Craig’s Micro.blog
Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
Buy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer
Mentioned this Episode:
My Blog Post “The Six Best Automation Apps for iOS”
Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions - MacStories
Robby Burns + Friends Episode on the GTD Methodology and Task Apps…featuring Dr. Frank Buck
Marco Arment, developer of…Tumblr/Instapaper/Overcast
OmniGraffle Designing App
Link to Download My Workflow for Managing Seating Charts (Note: You must replace the PDF in this Workflow with your own seating chart if it is going to work)
My Blog Post on Using TextExpander in the Music Classroom
This week Dr. Ken Elpus joins the show to talk about productivity apps and utilities that he uses to get his busy and multifaceted job done. Ken is the Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Maryland College Park. He is an absolute power user when it comes to leveraging his computer in amazing ways to better do his job!
Note: Around the 49 minute mark, Ken’s voice gets weird. Sorry.
Dr. Ken Elpus Show Notes:Apps Mentioned..
Audio Hijack - tool for rerouting the audio of your apps | Ulysses - Writing tool for Mac and iOS | Google Photos | Dropbox | Evernote | Waze - maps app with crowd sourced traffic data | Fantastical on Mac and iPhone - natural language input calendar app | OmniFocus - Robby and Ken’s task app of choice | Things - a beautiful and intuitive task app | Keynote | Canvas | Wuphf! | Unibox - organizes email by contact | AirMail - powerful mail client for Mac and iOS | Spark - Robby and Ken’s iOS mail client of choice | SaneBox - service that automatically sorts and organizes your mail | Slack - team communication tool | Remind - app for messaging students | Google Voice | Spotify | forScore | Notability | GoodNotes - note taking app for the iPad with presentation features | iAnnotate | Goodreader | Papers - Reference management software | Scrivener - authoring tool for Mac and iOS | DevonThink | Amphetamine - keeps your Mac awake | 1Password | Magnet and Moom - Window management utility for Mac | Roku | Plex | Boxer - MS Dos Machine | Dorico | MindNode | Alfred/Launchbar - Powerful Spotlight replacements | Screenflow/Tapes - screencast tools | Yoink | Transcribe App/Amazing Slow Downer - tools for slowing down, speeding up, transposing, and looping audio recordings | Taskclone - service that links your Evernote account with your task app
Keyboard shortcut for hide everything except active window: Option+Command+H.
Kevin Eikenberg of Four/Ten Media joins the show to talk to Robby about strategies for working with video. Four/Ten Media is made of up Kevin and Evan Chapman, a past percussion student of mine. Kevin produced the video trailer for my book and Evan’s band, Square Peg Round Hole, provided the background music.
Kevin EikenbergFour/Ten Media Website | Instagram | Facebook
Digital Organization Tips for Music TeachersBuy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer
Products, Apps, and Services Mentioned this Episode:Final Cut Pro X | iMovie | iMovie Theater | Q3 Video Recorder | H4N Handy Recorder | macOS Tags | Adobe Premiere Pro | After Effects | Adobe Creative Cloud | Build a PC Subreddit | Plex | Dropbox | Canon EOS60D | Canon C100 | Canon Camcorders | Sony A5100 Mirrorless Camera
Music technology educator, Ableton Live expert, and author, Will Kuhn, chats with me about organizing the audio files on our devices. We also speculate the future of professional audio and video software on the iPad.
Will KuhnWebsite | Twitter | Will's Book - Interactive Composition | Lebanan High School Electronic Music Group
Show Notes: Referenced ArticlesThe Will Kuhn Audio Organization Workflow
Products and Apps Mentioned
Chris Russel returns to the show to talk about working with digital scores on the iPad.
Chris Russel Show Notes:Check out our last episode together on scanning documents.
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band
My Blog Post on Indexing a Real Book with forScore
Other Useful Links Mentioned in the Conversation but Edited out of the Final Episode
Music Technology Teacher Podcast - with Katie Wardrobe
In this weeks episode, I am joined by Paul Shimmons (band director, music tech in education blogger, and podcaster). We have a great time talking about our various workflows for reading, editing, annotating, and organizing our PDFs. This episode was recorded shortly after the announcement of iOS 11 which will bring a lot of new productivity features to the iPad. Naturally, we had to discuss these announcements and how they might reshape our PDF workflows next fall.
This episode has chapters!!!! Using your podcast app of choice, skip to any topic in the episode by taping on the title of that chapter.
PaulShow Notes:
Recommended PDF Apps:
Preview | Adobe Acrobat Pro DC | PDFpen | PDF Expert | Documents 5 | GoodReader | PDF Converter | PDF Office | Evernote | iBooks | Kindle | Notability | Microsoft OneNote |
MiscRogue Amoeba | Audio Hijack | iOS 11 | Readdle Apps | Spark Mail App | Readdle Drag and Drop | OmniGraffle | Workflow | AirTurn | FileMaker | Squarespace Websites
In place of a formal introduction, Chris and I launched straight into a discussion about our recording setups and how to successfully record using iOS devices*. Then we jump into over an hour of action packed information on scanning. Scanning documents. Scanning music. Scanning with scanners. Scanning with phones. OCRing text. Automatic handwriting recognition. Automatic music notation recognition. Doing it all on PCs, tablets, phones, you name it.
Christopher Russell is a middle school choral and general music educator, music technology in education expert, blogger, and podcaster. Click the links below to read about him.
Chris Russel Show Notes: MiscAirPods | Zencaster | flat.io | Newzik | Evernote | Notability | unRealBook | MMEA | AirTurn | PageFlip | From Paper to Pixels | Tony Vincent
Recording Set UpAudio Hijack | Ferrite | H4N | Blue Snowball | Audio Technica AT2020 USB
Hardware Scanners Third Party Options Recommended Scanning Apps: Music Scanning AppsPhotoScore | SmartScore | PDFtoMusic Pro | NotateMe | Sheet Music Scanner
Other Scanning Apps:Tiny Scanner iOS | Tiny Scanner Android | Genius Scan iOS | Genius Scan Android | JotNot Pro | forScore
*This discussion was eye opening for me and I am glad I tried recording into my iPad for this episode but I would like to note that ...
1) Ferrite's touch editing interface was cumbersome enough for me that I ended up just doing it all in Logic Pro
and
2) Something about this setup resulted in a bit of a distorted sound on my voice which I did my best to clean up but apologize for.
Back at it again, with another work colleague! Orchestra Director, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about cloud drive services, specifically, the strengths and weaknesses of the primary offerings and how our music team uses them to be productive.
Can you tell how long I’ve been sitting on this recording? Wait for the Easter egg around 1:24.
We recorded this one live. Apologies for the disruptions and sound problems, particularly the last ten minutes. Yeah, yeah, I know…
Links:Buy my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
Season 2 is back!!! After a series of technical difficulties and a busy concert/conference presenting season, Episode 3 is ready!
This week my choral colleague, Nick Dogas, joins the show to discuss basic productivity in the music classroom. Topics include: managing an active teaching schedule using calendar apps, staying on top of email responsibilities, where technology helps (and doesn’t help), the role of attention, and more.
This was a fun one to record. All of my other guests this season are experts on the topics of each episode. I was having trouble finding someone who wanted to talk about the not-so-glamorous topics of email and calendars. Nick joked with me that he could come on as a tech-NON-expert and I loved the idea. Considering how differently each of us approaches our work, this episode turned into an interesting counterpoint about focus, attention, the problems that technology solves for unorganized people, and when it is best to just turn off the computer screen and get work done.
Note: Due to some issues recording this episode on an iPad, there are a few awkward edits and audio issues.
Show Notes:Sight Reading Factory - Excellent website for generating sight reading exercises for your students.
OmniFocus - Powerful task management for iOS and macOS.
Todoist - Collaborative, web based, and cross platform task management app.
Evernote - Versatile and cross platform note taking app.
Spark Mail App and Airmail - Two superior email apps for iOS and macOS.
Squarespace - Website platform that our music team used to build our website and publish our online calendar.
Google Calendar - The calendar service our music team uses to collaborate on classes.
Book - Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders
Frank Buck is a former middle school band director, veteran school administrator, public speaker, productivity coach, and writer. He is the author Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders. Dr. Buck helps people achieve their goals through organization and time management. He has spoken to audiences throughout the United States and into Canada to acquaint them with how to work with total control and peace of mind.
Great Apps for Task ManagementFrank’s App of Choice: Toodledo
Robby’s App of Choice: OmniFocus
What makes a good task management app? Buck’s Magnificent 7In Season Two of Robby Burns + Friends, I go through my new book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers, chapter by chapter. Each episode will cover a topic from the book with a guest who is an expert on that topic. The introduction to the season includes the introduction chapter to my book and an overview of the Prestissimo Series with Series Editor, Richard McCready.
Buy My Book Richard McCreadyTwitter: @ramccready
Book: Make Your Own Music: A Creative Curriculum Using Music Technology
Show Notes and Related LinksTI:ME - Technology Institute for Music Educators
Note: I mistakenly called the Mac operating system OS X numerous times despite it now being called macOS. Sorry.
Friend, Courtney Starr, joins the show to discuss announcements at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference.
Courtney Starr: Website | Twitter | Prolific Interactive
Friend, Allan Georgia, joins me to talk about Twitter's monetization strategy, social and algorithmic curation in the digital age, and pickling.
The Guest Show Notes:In a Pivot-Happy World, We Need to Let Twitter Be Twitter - James Gleick
Apple Music first look: It's all about curation, curation, curation
Favorite Instagram AccountsChef Jacques La Merde Instagram Account
Favorite Subreddits Pickling Things to pickleRobby and friend Courtney Starr reflect on their experience using the Apple Watch, discussing how it works now, how they wish it would work, and what might change when watchOS 2 releases.
Courtney Starr: Website | Twitter | Prolific Interactive
Links: Spire Article about flipping the Apple Watch upside down
Courtney Starr joins me to talk about last month's Apple Keynote. We reflect on their announcement of the iPad Pro and newly refreshed Apple TV.
Courtney Starr: Website | Twitter | Prolific Interactive
Links: iPad Pro, Pencil Stylus by 53, Paper app, Adonit Stylus, Apple Pencil, Apple TV
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