Resources for Presentations, Clinics, and Workshops

Distance Learning Resources for Music Teachers
January 27, 2006, Georgia Music Educators Conference
Savannah, GA

An overview distance learning resources that music teachers can use with a minimum of technology savvy.

Multimedia for Listening Lessons

with Jane Kuehne
January 20, 2006, In-Service Conference of the Alabama Music Educators Association
Bryant Conference Center, Tuscaloosa, AL

Participants will learn how to create PowerPoint listening guides and will participate in demonstration lessons that focus on listening to and analyzing jazz.

 


Vocal Improvisation and Digital Audio
with Veronica Sichivitsa
January 14, 2006, International Association for Jazz Education Conference
Sheraton New York Towers, New York, NY

Participants will learn how to record and edit digital audio files with Audacity in demonstration lessons that focus on vocal improvisation.


Making Music in the Middle School: Using Sequencing Software in New and Innovative Ways

with Deborah Barber, Jane Kuehne, and Veronica Sichivitsa
January 13, 2006, International Association for Jazz Education Conference
Sheraton New York Towers, New York, NY

Participants will learn how to play and edit pre-existing MIDI files with sequencing software in demonstration lessons that focus on improvisation and that are appropriate for middle school music classrooms with single or multiple computers.

Multimedia for Jazz Listening Lessons

with Jane Kuehne
January 14, 2006, International Association for Jazz Education Conference
Sheraton New York Towers, New York, NY

Participants will learn how to create PowerPoint listening guides and will participate in demonstration lessons that focus on listening to and analyzing jazz.


Making Music with Software (even if you have only one computer)
June 21-23, 2005, Silver Burdett Summer Workshop
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Music Production, Notation, and Instructional Software plus other featured technology.


Program Development and Evaluation of a Distance Learning Graduate Degree Program In Music Education: Perspectives from Students and Professors

with Jeff Gilbreath, Rick Good, Bill Schaffer & Martina Miranda
September 15 , 2005, Symposium on Music Teacher Education
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC


PowerPoint! It's Not Just for Slideshows Anymore
February 14, 2004, Texas Music Educators' Association/Technology Institute for Music Educators
Henry C. Gonzales Convention Center, San Antonio, TX

Examples of how PowerPoint can support performance, guided listening, scaffolding, assessment, and lesson organization.

Uncle Henry's Trombone Rags

November 10, 1998, 8:00-9:00 a.m., A.U. Elderhostel Prgram, Auburn University, AL
A multimedia-enhanced lecture-demonstration of Henry Fillmore trombone smears and marches. Co-presenter, Bill Walls (Doc).

An Update on Music Technology for Choral Directors

Alabama Chapter of American Choral Directors Association
July 28, 1998 11:00-11:45 p.m., Trinity United Methodist Church, Homewood AL
An update on new developments in computer and music technology which can enhance the choral rehearsal

21st Century Tools for Music Educators

November 13, 4:30-8:00 p.m., Foy Union, Auburn University
From 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Kim Walls of Auburn University will demonstrate how to use the Internet and multimedia in practical ways in today's music classrooms and rehearsal sites. This multimedia presentation will feature the free Internet resources for music teachers that Auburn University provides on the World Wide Web.

Beginning at 6:00 pm participants will take part in an interactive video teleconference demonstrating how the Music In Education (MIE) computer-assisted system can be used with elementary and middle school students for music instruction and classroom management. Both presentations will include time for questions.

All participants will receive the book Applications of Research in Music Technology by William Berz and Judith Bowman, an easy-to-read explanation of how technology is used in music education and what the research says about its effectiveness. Refreshments will be provided.

Introduction to the World Wide Web for Music Education

Music Education Classes
November 4, 8:00-9:00 a.m., 3:00-4:00 p.m., Multimedia Lab, LRC, Auburn University
This multimedia presentation will be a short introduction to the Internet for Music Education Majors. Participants will "surf" the Internet in a hands-on session.

Internet Resources for Piano Teachers

Auburn Piano Teachers' Association,
October 19, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Multimedia Lab, Auburn High School
This multimedia presentation will be a short introduction to the Internet and how to connect a computer to the Internet. The free Internet resources provided by Auburn University and other resources of interest to piano teachers will be demonstrated. Participants will "surf" the Internet in a hands-on session.

Teaching Music with Twenty-First Century Tools

Tennessee Arts Academy, June 22 - 27, 1997, Belmont College, Nashville, TN
These sessions explored the use of computer technology in teaching music. The session topics included: MIDI for practice, performance, and rehearsal; Finale for professional-looking music notation; creation of multimedia for the classroom and concert hall; the Internet in teaching; and music education software products. The sessions emphasized practical uses of technology in today's classrooms and rehearsal sites as well as implications for music teachers of the Twenty-First Century.