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__**What are we currently doing? (Please add to this list. . .)**__

March 3, 2012 9:00 am – 3:00 pm At the Perpich Center 5 CEU hours Aaron Hilden - aaron.hilden@pcae.k12.mn.us Now that you know how to use Garageband, how will you teach it to your students? How will you guide them into creating musical compositions, not just moving loops? Each student project is designed to focus on an element of music, an aspect of the Garageband software, and a musical form as a framework for composition.
 * GarageBand in the Music Curriculum: Projects for Composition (Day 2)**

March 2, 2012 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm At the Perpich Center Midge Olsen -olsen1736@mac.com GarageBand comes free with every Apple computer, but did you know it can do much, much more than just arrange loops in C Major at 120 BPM? Learn how to use GarageBand to edit, trim, fade, compose, mix, split into tracks, prepare practice CDs, record piano one hand at a time, print simple notation, transpose, and more!
 * More Than Just Loops: How To Compose, Record, and Edit Using Apple GarageBand (Day 1)**

February 25, 2012
 * Technology in Music Education workshops**

1. All classrooms in the building have a SMARTBoard and projector. Large classrooms have a sound field, as does the speech classroom in the special education wing. The band and orchestra use the SMARTBoard for SMART music and theory related lessons. 2. In my general music classroom, the SMARTBoard is central to my lessons. It is an excellent Audio/Visual tool for communicating everything from procedural directions to conducting discussions on musical interpretations. 3. I use Finale heavily in my classroom in conjunction with SMART Notebook. Because Finale is so versitile, I can quickly create music that omits or highlights any element I wish in any key that I wish.I have also used Finale to help very gifted composers begin writing their own music. 4. I have used recording technology to allow students to hear and critique their own performances. This also allows me to use a child's voice as an example with some repertoire, as an adult male voice is not always an acceptable model. Further, it allows me to record myself singing so that substitutes who are uncomfortable singing don't have to. 5. I have used audio editing software such as Audacity to help students make their own recordings. They are always excited to take home their own CD. 6. Youtube and Zamzar.com are two websites that, when combined with SMARTNotebook, enable me to successfully add a rich variety of video files to my array of lessons.
 * Seth Boyd:** At Groveland Elementary in Minnetonka, here is what we have done and are doing with technology.


 * Chris Russell**: I can speak to our initiatives at East Ridge High School, which was opened in the Fall of 2009 with Technology as a "Pillar."
 * 1) Each classroom is outfitted with a SMART Board (and LCD Projector) and sound field. We typically use the SmartBoards for attendance, announcements, and sight-reading (choir). It is phenomenal for teaching Music Theory. The band uses the SMART Board occasionally with SmartMusic.
 * 2) The music department opened with a number of technology items:
 * A MIDI Lab of 17 stations (PC, M-Audio USB Keyboard, Microphone, and Headphones). This lab has already been dismantled to put computers in each practice room for use with SmartMusic. The computers had Finale (2009) and Audacity as "main" music programs.
 * Five HP mini-netbooks, intended to be used with SmartMusic. These have been retasked to the Media Center (students check them out) because our IT department puts so many background processes on the netbooks that they were basically unusable.
 * 1 fantastic acoustic grand piano (Yamaha CFIIIS), a digital Clavinova Grand (CVP-309), and 4 Roland FP7s in the practice rooms (all on dollies). The band also has a Yamaha keyboard of some kind for Jazz Band. We've since added an upright acoustic in the Orchestra Room.
 * 5 iPods with BoomBuckets for use by the choir (sectionals, solo & ensemble prep).
 * The band makes the most use of SmartMusic, future releases of the software may change this for choir.
 * 2 Freehand Music System Music Tablets. One has been sold (the choir unit), the other sits unused in the Band Office. By far our worst purchase. The iPad (April 2010) made these systems a complete waste of money.
 * 1 Zoom H4n audio recorder. We purchased a second unit with the money from the sold Freehand Tablet. We love the H4n, as it allows for XLR input, 1/4" input, or just the device's own mics.
 * 1) (Sorry that I cannot make the 3. work with Wikispaces' formatting): All three teachers (Band, Choir, and Orchestra) are Mac users/owners, although the district has been aggressively anti-Mac since 1996 (this is changing with a new assistant superintendent). iPhones and iPads are also personally owned.
 * 2) I personally use my iPad for teaching, all day long. There are many great apps, but music readers are the selling point for me. I can demonstrate this on the 1st.
 * 3) I just ordered a Bluetooth Stereo Receiver (Monoprice.com--out of my own pocket, like most tech initiatives) to eliminate wires in the room. This is a win-win. ($23 with shipping included).

Visit my MusicEduTech Wiki: Find great music ideas and resources. Also download some of my work. https://musicedutech.wikispaces.com/ Come to my music specific SMART training. []
 * Becky Litzau:** Elementary Music Teacher and Music Consultant for Tierney Brothers, Inc.