Kimberly C. Walls

Kimberly C. Walls, Ph.D., is Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University. where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and music technology. Her specialties include music technology, instrumental music education, general music education, and music perception.

She is a contributing author of Silver Burdett elementary/middle school music series publications: Animated Listening Maps, Making Music with Technology, Making Music, and Making Music with MIDI. Her articles related to music education technology are found in publications such as Technological Aspects of Mentoring, Technology Guide for Music Educators, Technology Strategies for Music Educators (2nd Ed.), The TI:MEs, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Psychomusicology. Dr. Walls is coauthor (Sam Reese and Kimberly McCord) of the MENC publication, Strategies for Teaching: Music Technology.

Kim is a TI:ME certified instructor, an author and editor of TI:ME curriculum materials, and serves on the TI:ME national advisory board. Dr. Walls coordinates and teaches TI:ME Level I courses each summer at Auburn University. She has presented technology clinics at music education workshops, conferences, and teacher in-services nationally and internationally including: Music Educators National Conference (MENC); Mountain Lake Symposium for Teachers of General Music Methods; International Society for Music Education (ISME); Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Wisconsin Music Educators Conferences, College Music Society (CMS), Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), and Research Alliance of Institutes of Music Education.

Her research in has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychomusicology,and the Journal of Music Therapy. She serves on the review boards of Journal of Technology in Music Learning, Journal for Music Teacher Education, Technological Directions in Music Learning E-journal and the National Symposium on Music Instructional Technology. A monograph she co authored with Jack Taylor and Nancy Barry, Music and Students At-Risk: Creative Solutions for a National Dilemma,was published by MENC.