Category Archives: Technology

Music Tech PD

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Futura Music Edu­ca­tion are offer­ing pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment for both instru­mental and classroom music teach­ers  in the use of music technology, with a focus on present and future tech­no­lo­gies that can be incor­por­ated into classrooms for today’s stu­dents. The work­shops are run by prac­tising teach­ers using meth­ods that have proved suc­cess­ful in real teach­ing situations.

Three work­shops will be offered in Semester 1, 2011. Work­shop 1, ‘Devel­op­ing your jazz pro­gram through tech­no­logy’ is designed pre­dom­in­ately for instru­mental music teach­ers while work­shops  2, ‘Intro­duc­tion to Music Tech­no­logy in the Classroom’ and 3  ‘Elec­tronic, Dance & Remix Music for the Classroom Teacher’ are more spe­cific for classroom music teachers.  A regis­tra­tion form is attached for your con­veni­ence. You can down­load a regis­tra­tion form here. For more detailed inform­a­tion please go to http://www.futuramusiceducation.com.au/Home.html

QBOC2010Live—Music theory online

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Jon AdamsSponsored by Instru­mental Music Australia

Jon Adams has been an instru­mental teacher with Edu­ca­tion Queens­land for more than twenty years in the Bris­bane region and gradu­ated with a Bach­elor of Music as well as a Dip­loma in Edu­ca­tion. He began Web Ed Devel­op­ment, a com­pany that aims to cre­ate a new group of tech­no­lo­gies that will allow online music edu­ca­tion to become a real­ity. Web Ed Devel­op­ment is now the online learn­ing part­ner for the Aus­tralian Music Exam­in­a­tions Board.

Richard SettleRichard Settle has been an instru­mental music edu­cator and a pro­fes­sional trum­pet player for more than twenty years and is well known through­out Bris­bane and Queens­land. He is now Man­aging Dir­ector of Instru­mental Music Aus­tralia, a music retail busi­ness with a strong focus on edu­ca­tion and ser­vice. He is a gradu­ate of the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium with a Dip­loma of Music and has a Gradu­ate Dip­loma in Fur­ther Edu­ca­tion & Train­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land.

In this ses­sion, ‘Music the­ory online’, del­eg­ates had the oppor­tun­ity to view a new online soft­ware pro­gram to teach music the­ory. This pro­gram is also used in con­junc­tion with the AMEB for stu­dents to take online exams. The soft­ware is designed to be fun and inter­act­ive, yet also allows teach­ers to mon­itor stu­dents’ progress.

Down­load the Music The­ory Online handout.

QBOC2010Live—Sibelius 6: the basics and beyond

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Scott BuckleyScott Buckley (BMus) began his career with Bin­ary Designs after com­plet­ing his Bach­elor of Music degree at QUT. For a time he lived in Los Angeles as a com­poser for film, TV and advert­ising and is now a com­poser and elec­tronic arranger based in Brisbane.

Scott Buckley’s homepage, Twit­ter feed, and Face­book page.

Scott’s work­shops were on Sibelius 6: the basics & Sibelius 6: bey­ond basics. In the first ses­sion Scott covered set­ting up a score, enter­ing notes and text, and using simple tools to format the score into a pro­fes­sional product. Scott explained things simply and his depth of exper­i­ence was obvi­ous to all del­eg­ates. In the second ses­sion Scott explained the more power­ful fea­tures of Sibelius includ­ing sav­ing a score as audio, a graphic and a webpage, sav­ing time with scan­ning, ‘con­duct­ing’ a score with Live Tempo, and  the format­ting func­tions avail­able in the latest version.

Click here for the cheat­sheets:
Sibelius 6: The Basics
Sibelius 6: Bey­ond Basics

Professional Development on Steroids

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For those who want to keep up with the tech­no­logy their stu­dents are using and also look for ways of inter­grat­ing that tech­no­logy into their teach­ing prac­tice, look no fur­ther than the resources cre­ated by Dr Joseph Pis­ano (Twit­ter — @pisanojm).

Mustech.net is a web site that dis­cusses not only the latest in music technology, but also vari­ous forms of social media and web2.0 tech­no­lo­gies that are use­ful for teachers.

MusicEd­News, another of Dr Pisano’s pro­jects, is an online RSS aggreg­ator: a one-stop-shop for music tech­no­logy and music edu­ca­tion related posts. In this pro­ject, Dr Pis­ano is assisted by music edcuation­al­ist Andy Zwei­bel (Twit­ter — @Zweibz7).

Not many music teach­ers in Queens­land have embraced Twit­ter yet, and those who haven’t are miss­ing out on a bril­liant resource cre­ated by Dr Pis­ano. He has put together a list of the best music educationalists/technologists on Twit­ter. If you want to stay up-to-date and explore how new tech­no­lo­gies can enhance your teach­ing prac­tice you only need to fol­low the people on this list. You will learn more in a day than you will in a week of school in-services. As Dr Pis­ano says , “use it to instantly cre­ate a Music Edu­ca­tion PLN (Per­sonal Learn­ing Network)”.

And remem­ber, you can always fol­low ABODA QLD on Twit­ter (http://twitter.com/ABODAQ) and Face­book too.

Keep up with ABODA QLD

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ABODA QLD has gone through a lot of changes in the last twelve months, not the least of which is this web site. We are try­ing very hard to keep all mem­bers informed of our activ­it­ies, and other pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment events in Queensland. You now need to com­plete 30 hours of pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment per year to main­tain your teacher regis­tra­tion, and ABODA QLD can provide many oppor­tun­it­ies to chalk up your hours–but more import­antly, our pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment will help you become a bet­ter teacher and con­ductor of your ensembles. Here are a few dif­fer­ent ways you can keep up-to-date with all the ABODA QLD happenings:

Face­book: ABODA QLD has a page on Face­book. Spread the word among your friends and check the site for reg­u­lar updates includ­ing videos, photos, and noti­fic­a­tions of upcoming events.

Twit­ter: Fol­low ABODA QLD on Twit­ter http://www.twitter.com/abodaq/ and get the latest news as it hap­pens. You will also get links to news from around the world about music edu­ca­tion and the move­ments of prom­in­ent conductors–news that doesn’t war­rant its own post on the web site but is still use­ful for those con­duct­ors who want to be in the know. You can pre­view the latest tweets from ABODA QLD on the web site http://abodaq.org.au.

You­Tube: ABODA QLD has its own You­Tube chan­nel. At the moment you can watch the five videos from our Even­ing With Johan de Meij. You can also check out our favourites–movies on El Sis­tema, Gust­avo Dudamel, and TED talks by Ken Robin­son, Itay Tal­gam, Ben Zander, and Evelyn Glennie.

RSS feeds: At the top right of the web site you will see the RSS icon. Click this and sub­scribe to the ABODA QLD blog feed in the the feedreader of your choice. You can even sub­scribe with Microsoft Outlook.

I hope this inform­a­tion helps you stay in touch with ABODA QLD. Most import­antly, SPREAD THE WORD. For­ward on the monthly email, retweet the tweets, share the blog items with those teach­ers you work with who aren’t mem­bers of ABODA QLD. Queens­land has been the leader in Aus­tralian instru­mental music edu­ca­tion for a long time. Let’s con­tinue that trend and build an organ­isa­tion that sup­ports and cel­eb­rates the best in ensemble conducting.