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Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:00-3:00 Perpich Center for Arts Education, Glass Box 8:30 Light breakfast 8:45 Introductions 9:00 Presentations by Charles Miller and Aaron Doering from the University of Minnesota (see wiki page with info on presenters) 10:00 Q and A with Charlie and Aaron 10:30 Break 10:45 Sharing of current practice (participants will share how they currently use technology in music ed) 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Sharing con't and processing of information shared 2:00 What's next? 2:45 Reflection 3:00 Closing Seth Boyd, Minnetonka Public Schools Nyssa Brown, Perpich Center for Arts Education Michael Buck, Augsburg College Greta Cina, St. Paul Public Schools Nathan Duffy, Perpich Center for Arts Education Wayne Feller, Technology Integrationist, Stillwater Area Public Schools Cheryl Kaarlgard, Baxter Dennis Lindsey, Stillwater Area Public Schools Becky Litzau, Norwood Young America Robin Lorenzen, St. Paul Public Schools Dan Massoth, Make Music Matt Mayfield, Perpich Center for Arts Education Doug Orzolek, University of St. Thomas Amy Roisum Foley, University of Minnesota, Mankato Chris Russell, HS Choir and Technology Integrationist, South Washington County Michael Watson, Anoka Hennepin Janika Vandervelde, Perpich Center for Arts Education Scott Lipscomb, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Midge Olsen, Retired, Minneapolis Public Schools Red Freeberg, Minneapolis Public Schools **Technology in Music Education Networking Meeting** **June 1, 2011** **Notes respectfully submitted by Nyssa Brown, amendments welcome**
 * Innovations in Technology in Music Education**
 * Networking Participants**
 * Interested, but not able to attend:**

Presentation my Aaron Doering and Charles Miller, Univ of Minnesota

LT media Lab - lt.umn.edu

Layers of authenticity
 * Content –use of timely, real-world probelsm, media (photos, video, interviews), scenarios, and case-based examples to guide instructional, presentation
 * Context – immerse students in real-world, ill-structured problem scenarios based on genuine, valid, and legitimate needs, specifications, data, and expectations (trying to be a geographer)
 * Authentic Narrative – real-world, meaningful stories where learners feel as if they are part of the narrative and, as a result, reference their experiences outside the classroom
 * Shared experience – Reframing the role of the learner as the expert to communicate, collaborate, and share their experience with others working around the same issues.

T-PAC Teachers need knowledge in the following areas:
 * Technology
 * Pedagogical
 * Content

App development within education

“Community is built where our stories intersect.”

lt.umn.edu/environetwork

Explore 15 – ways teachers can create their own adventure learning

Teacher- learner – expert = blending these is authenticity

Avenueasl.umn.edu

Discussion with Aaron and Charlie -

- have kids go out and record someone singing a song, gaining cultural/social context, analyzing elements of music, etc.
 * Adventure Learning (AL) approach to music education**

- distance learning for students who may not have music in districts - elem music assessments – go to spreadsheet - looking for ways to meaningful assess singing voices (and to see a good model) - can students also review one another’s work?
 * Avenue ASL extension for music education and performance assessment**

- Composition competition and contest – Valley City Univ wrote an ASCAP grant
 * Combines both**

- meet the kids where they are at with technology
 * Big Picture**

- SmartMusic from Make Music in Eden Prairie (contact Dan Massoth dmassoth@makemusic.com ) - Sophia.org - social networking idea where you can post and share things (MN company) similar to Moodle, set up classrooms, etc
 * Other existing resources:**


 * __Sharing Sessions of Networking Group Participants__**

Voice Chimes – students produce their own studio work Soundcloud.com Created on iPad touches
 * Wayne Feller**

Music studio software - 4 pts created separately, same key, length etc - garage band - podcast producer - moodle - collaborative composition - can use in other media projects

Vocal product in Beta Tonicization Sight singing Vocal assessment
 * Dan Massoth**

Elementary – need folks to help input folks songs (summer project)

$140 per year for teacher $36 per year for teachers

Creating custom assessments in Finale and importing them into SmartMusic Could we create a way to share SmartMusic files with one another
 * Michael Watson**

Key signature drills (and other knowledge-based things) using powerpoint

Linking from teacher website to repertoire on websites, documents from class, tuning tools, etc

Using document cameras to rehearse specific portions of the score – can save files to computer or use as webcam

Beginning music instrument playing Animated – create your own avatar Interactive – from multiple positions Looking to expand into vocal First product to be released in next 2-3 months
 * At Play Music – Gary Meyer and Bill Haertzen**

SmartBoard – using SmartNotebook Embedding – audacity files in SmartNotebook Finale with SmartNotebook You Tube – Zamzar (convert to flv) or keepvid.com, take You Tube clip and embed in SmartNotebook (or use just the audio by converting to mp3)
 * Seth Boyd**

Check in for classes Vocal exploration Pitch matching – target, building Rhythmic icons Importing Finale icons into SmartNotebook Google Earth – showing where music came from (satellite view)
 * Becky Litzau**

Common assessments Record students doing common assessments – audio (smaller storage space) in Garage Band, podcast for parents to listen to. Everything goes to a blog for each grade level (change name of blog each year so parents don’t need to re-subscribe every year) Pdfs of assignments – available to email to kids LCD projector Ppt
 * Paul Weller**

Moving to be an apple district SMART Boards in all rooms Attendance Sight reading Announcements Music theory Digital pianos Roland FP7, Yamaha Zoom recorders Will have finale, SmartMusic, and Audacity 5 iPod touches, 5 Book Buckets Class Jump (free resource) Use twitter with students re: choir announcements
 * Chris Russell**

Apps: Unreal Book, ForScore,, twisted Wave Symphony Pro – music composition software ($14.99)

Students take attendance on the iPad “Pitch Primer” - tuner – use to help students play in tune during rehearsal (drop earphone w/mic down a tuba bell) “forScore” - Pdf Score Readers “iReal Book” – play with rhythm section, rearrange, transpose “flashcards” – for any field of study – including music “fingerings” – for band and orchestra instruments and percussion melodies
 * Dennis Lindsey**

Digital recorder Interactive whiteboard
 * Cheryl Kaarlgard**

Level 1 – mundane but good to have iTunes playists digital delivery SMARTboard activities Online activities
 * Greta Cina**

Level 2 – Great American Singing Challenge p itch matching Kidpirations diagrams – venn diagrams (comparing pieces using words or pictures) Interactive online games - Carnegie hall You Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Podcasts Online Assessment – mobile lab, hot potatoes (create an online assessment that you can upload to server) GarageBand composition

Level 3 – ready to do Recrodong singin and playing for assessments Record improv over accompaniment Compose movie scores for imovie video Webquest Class Music video

Level 4 - Class blogs – Group/class wiki (look up kidblog)

Tracking Student Achievement through a Standards-Based Used core music knowledge as assessments Collected info over period of years Technology that helped – ExamView (www.fscreations.com)
 * Michael Buck**

1st NASM accredited program BS in music education Music fundamentals class online (for those interested in going into music programs) Jumpstart Program for those 16 and above Many different types of questions that can be asked and the computer grades it Can ask questions about graphics Could also put up a listening example Composers competition and contest – mentored online by Guest mentor Live streamed concert Wimba is the interface for the online courses – using tablets so multiple people can interact at one time. Can save old files so people can go back see it if they missed the class.
 * Sara**


 * Questions -**

1) Could we have. . . computerized curriculum units - unit on sound steady beat

2) How can we have class lists that are easy to manage within the year and from year to year

Feedback - and next steps for Technology in Music Education Network Meeting June 1, 2011 Perpich Center for Arts Education

What was the most helpful thing about today?


 * Talking with software developers and sharing our needs and seeing them excited about the ideas (paul) - ditto (Becky)
 * Highlights were seeing the new plan by Doering & Miller to create Music Performance Assessment similar to AveASL and the new direction for SmartMusic shown to us by Dan.
 * networking with all of the teachers and business/academic developers: it’s all about connections to move ahead (Sara)
 * Ultimately, it's good to see other music educators--at all levels--who are passionate about technology and its use in Music Education. I liked seeing examples of teachers using SmartMusic and SMART Boards in their classrooms. And I like the promise of the U of M LT program for teachers.
 * Seeing all of the wonderful approaches, perspectives and uses for technology in the classroom (ARF)
 * seeing that people are using technology in a good way that is not intrusive to the creative, sequential music literacy process in order to gather data, improve student achievement and allow for the students to become better, more literate musicians (Paul)
 * Seeing what is available and realizing the great potential for technology and music.

What would you change - or like to suggest for next time?
 * I wish the software developers and other morning presenters would have stayed to see what the afternoon people had shared. I love what they presented, but also wanted to be able to give them feedback and share ideas with them. (Becky)
 * Have us blog ahead of time what we plan to share. This way we can focus on what we do differently, and share things that we can uniquely bring to the group.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Probably more time in general---this could easily be a two-day event. I agree with the need to have all of us in the same room for at least a full day. It’s the interactivity that is the most powerful piece. (Sara)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More time for questions and time to process information this morning. It was exciting, but a little overwhelming to take in the EARTHDUCATION/U of M presenters. The unfortunate part is that their project with music education is stopped in its tracks due to funding. I wonder if there is a way to apply for science/technology funds even though it ultimately is for music education. Perhaps MakeMusic would be willing to take the AvenueASL project on. (ARF)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I enjoyed hearing what other educators were using in the classroom. I agree that this could easily expand into a two day event. Perhaps a summer seminar.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The LT presentation could have been adapted slightly for the audience of music educators. I would have preferred that they spent more time getting feedback about what the music education LT project would look like.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I want time to argue, discuss, and debate. The sharing part could have been a lot shorter (Seth).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the next thing you would like to a) learn more about, b) learn to use in your classroom, c) explore the possibilities of. . ..
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">talk with the guys from the UofM to get their Avenue software tweaked for use in the music classroom for assessment (Paul)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can we share at MMEA Clinic in a roundtable or group session. Each of us gets 10 minutes to share. I sometimes feel like what I do could go into a mini-session, and having several of us sharing could be valuable to a wide range of teachers (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Instrumental, Choral, General, etc.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iStuff (Sara)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">grants-funding possibilities
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more on smart music vocal! I would also like to hear more about the assessment piece from smart music and from mike.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guys from U of M - keep in touch, give them feedback and help develop the ‘music’ ace.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At Play software - look into other applications for their ideas (Becky)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pooling created resources online---SMARTboard lessons, lesson plans, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The vocal SMART Music is interesting. Beyond that, I would like to get more involved in using iPad type applications and tools. However, the scale I want is not feasible at this point.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ditto on the pooling resources issue. Maybe the MMEA could host webspace for that. I'd also like to see Hasting's common assessment and use that as a starting point. I'd also like to see a discussion of digitial rights and how we can protect school investments yet (legally) transfer paper materials to digital formats. Oh--I would also like to encourage everyone here to present at MMEA Mid-Winter Conference.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A day devoted to iPad music apps
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actually begin to develop ways to incorporate content into the technology.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How are we going to best keep in communication?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">email to those individuals who have skills/info I need.The WIKI is a very powerful tool! What about a video conference or Skype event?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">email
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiki or a blog
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Email, blog, wiki
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">let's use the WIKI
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiki or Blog--even a Facebook page--love the Wall tool. (Sara)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Continued communication via the wiki. Whenever there is an addition, do we automatically receive an email message? (ARF)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">e-mail, wiki spaces, google docs

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would you like to gather this summer? If not, when is the best time to meet?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sure! Yes! Definitely
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’d be willing to meet--YES! (Sara)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am willing to meet again this summer (Michael Watson)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Is it possible to meet online to save costs? I can link us through Adobe Connect or Skype.__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (ARF)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">meet again (paul) and/or google docs are a great communication tool
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes! Let’s meet again! Love the wiki Nyssa started for updating our new finds and I will definitely be sharing it with others (Becky)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not until August. I’m getting married this summer...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m having a baby, so ditto for me :)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes. Skyping would also work.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What else are you thinking?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How about a few MMEA sesions higlighting some of the ideas shared today?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How can we build a community that can support and grow each other’s dreams? I like the idea of a technology conference--perhaps a full day AHEAD of MMEA focused on technology. I am working on this at the College Music Society/ATMI conference. TI:ME state chapter? (Sara)


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks Nyssa for putting this together!


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Same as above__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Can we share at MMEA Clinic in a roundtable or group session. Each of us gets 10 minutes to share. I sometimes feel like what I do could go into a mini-session, and having several of us sharing could be valuable to a wide range of teachers (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Instrumental, Choral, General, etc.) - Michael Watson


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think we need a plan of action or some sort of unified vision before we present what we discussed here today. Most of today was just sharing...it would be best to have an idea of what is needed and how we are going forward to achieve this before we bring it to the general public (Paul)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* What Paul said!!! (Seth) I don’t even know what we would share with people at this point.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Great ideas! MMEA would be great - as far as what to share, just mentioning and getting the point across that we are meeting and developing ideas. Just in case no one comes (it happens!) we should make sure to have a really great title for the session so people know what we’re about! (Becky


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Want to find out more about I-pad application.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’d like to see a mission statement or something of the same, as well as frameworks, for technology in music education--as a way to guide teachers in the use of technology. Although I believe in the iPad, the frameworks should be flexible to use with any form of technology.


 * Next time. . .**
 * software developers to help with assessments and grading students 9and smartmusic
 * adventure learning – incorporate into music
 * Smart Board
 * iPads (2)
 * letting educators see what is possible – digitally record how tech is being used (can we all do a simple
 * making in-classroom recording
 * iBands
 * iStuff (2)
 * Assessment
 * Philosophical and pedagogical frameworks on underpinnings of technology use in the music classroom
 * How do we make things available to K-12 music teachers . . . documenting so all can see? (annual session – open tech session)
 * How do I best bring this to my student teachers?
 * Assessment

**Tentative plan (to be hashed out on the wiki) for next meeting:**
 * 1) 1. Philosophical and pedagogical frameworks on underpinnings of technology use in the music classroom
 * 2) 2. Standards-aligned Assessment as the foundation of discussion
 * 3) 3. What technology helps us with #2?

**In the meantime**. . . Nyssa will continue to explore possible collaboration with Aaron and Charlie at the U of MN.