Home Registration Sponsors Program Email NSMIT 1999
DATE: July 14-15 (Friday-Saturday), 2000
LOCATION: School of Music, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
Sponsored by the Center for Music Research, Florida State University, Jack Taylor, Director, and the Music Education Program, Auburn University, Nancy Barry, Coordinator.
Conference Chair: Kimberly Walls, Auburn University.
Conference Coordinator: Jerry Wood, Center for Music Research.
The National Symposium on Music Instruction Technology will provide opportunities for music educators and music education researchers to share knowledge and experiences concerning technology enhanced music instruction. Its purposes are to accelerate the exchange of ideas among practitioners and researchers, to encourage appropriate uses of music technology in PreK-12 learning environments, and to disseminate findings of investigations into learning with music technology.
To facilitate the exchange, the following types of presentation proposals are solicited:
Lengths of presentations will range from 30 minutes for lectures to 45 minutes for performances to 90 minutes for hands-on workshop sessions. Descriptions of all presentations and concerts will be published in a book of proceedings. Researchers may choose to submit complete articles for the new Journal of Technology in Music Learning (JTML), a peer-reviewed journal associated with the conference. Contact Kimberly Walls, JTML Editor, for additional information (kim.walls@auburn.edu).
One- to two-page presentation proposals should be sent to the Conference Coordinator, postmarked no later than May 1, 2000. Proposals for performances should include a cassette tape or compact disc. Proposals must include a list of equipment to be provided by the presenter, a list of equipment the conference would supply, and an indication of the type and desired length of presentation. Presenters are encouraged to bring their own laptop computers, where possible. A Mac and PC compatible SVGA projector will be available. Proposals should be e-mailed (preferred), faxed, or mailed to: