music education

This week I’m off to the ATMI (Association for Technology in Music Instruction) & CMS (College Music Society) Conference. I’ll be presenting on using blog systems in music courses at the ATMI Pre-Conference Technology Workshop and then presenting later on in the week on popular music pedagogy through web-based technologies. I’ll try to get the material posted here once the conference is over. I’m excited about the ATMI Pre-conference theme “Delivering music instruction with Web 2.0 Social computing tools and… Read More »Off to ATMI /CMS **Updated 9/24/08**

I ended up spending most of my attention listening to the performance and engaging with the live chat but here is a collection of the few posts I wrote while live blogging the concert. I’ll write a post in the next day or two to reflect on the experience. Overall I found the live chat with other audience members and moderator wonderfully engaging and thought it added an entirely new layer to the concert experience. I’m here in Gammage Hall… Read More »Liveblogging a concert experience….

Tonight I will be participating as a live blogging audience member at the “An E-volution of Experience, From Andriessen 2 Zappa: Ecstasy of Influence” concert at Arizona State University.   The concert will include multiple options for audience members ranging from the traditional sitting and listening to receiving play by play text messages during the performance. This format has some fascinating implications for school music programs and collaborative possibilities between students in ensembles and those in general music classes. If you… Read More »Audience Participation: A Digital Multimedia Concert Experience

Welcome back to those of you recently returning to teaching after a hopefully relaxing summer, and those of you who have been in school for the past few weeks, I hope your year is off to a great start. I’ve been extremely busy with classes, reading, research etc., but in celebration of evening temperatures creeping below 100 degrees and a wonderful short burst of rain a couple of minutes ago  I figured I’d write a quick post. I was excited… Read More »Welcome Back To School…

Sorry about the recent hiatus. I am currently in the process of moving to Arizona to join the music education faculty at Arizona State University and am spending all of my remaining time writing papers and reading an exceedingly growing number of books and articles. I’m also preparing for some upcoming presentations.  I’m off to Bologna in two weeks to attend the International Society for Music Education Conference and present a paper regarding popular culture and music ed. In September… Read More »Temporary Hiatus and some changes….