Last Friday my students in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Technology in Music Education course (from which my MOOC Music in […]
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be asked to speak at one of the Unversity of
I’m having fun at the Slide2Learn conference on mLearning in Sydney. Did a presentation this morning – the deck below was created
I’m in the middle of composing a large work for orchestra and choir at the moment, and as I was setting
I posted an obscure photo last week showing set-up for a lecture I gave the following morning. I’m interested to know
I developed several units of work to go with my composition Passion for Symphonic Winds, and this electronic version has nothing to
A month ago you may have seen the tweets about a series of tutorial videos I put out late at
Last week my Sydney Conservatorium of Music Technology in Music Education (#SCMtech) students handed in their main project, worth 50% of the
It will be no surprise to hear that I really relished the opportunity to rewrite the Sydney Conservatorium’s course Technology in
Something that has troubled me for over a decade as an educator is finding the best format to publish my
Long time no blog – but that’s what happens when you take a new job! Since March I’ve been working
In my last blog I outlined some of what I learned from spending a week observing and even participating a
I’ve just completed my fourth commission of the year, and I’m especially proud of this one. I’m going to blog
Blended and Online Learning Update: I’ve made a Facebook page for our class. You don’t have to use it, but
This week we started with a reading exercise instead of the usual learning by copying or by rote. We used
Lecture 4 was a departure from the usual format, with our annual visit from the education technology industry experts at
A bit of a mixed week this week, with the problem before we’d begun being that Sibelius still wasn’t registered
In the lecture we completed a 3 week performance task in just 40 minutes. We began with some vocal warm-ups
In our lecture, we have sung through the Drone & Chant: Next, download this GarageBand file to improvise your own
I feel compelled to write about a unit of work just completed with a very talented stage 5 class despite
Avid released their first iPad app only a few weeks ago, and it’s for my favourite ever software title –
The iPad has been, on the whole, an enormous disappointment to me. Those who know me well or follow me
In the tutorial this week we created our own Wiki on the topic of music technology for education. After discussing
I have a feeling that these lecture notes will be fairly skinny. It’s not that I’m being lazy or don’t
Being a music teacher is the most incredible, creative fun I’m spoilt for choice, and spoilt by choice. I have
I swapped the content for lectures 4 and 5 around because I have been able to augment the lecture on
Sleeping is definitely overrated. All I can say is that I’m jolly glad that my rather lovely father-in-law likes to
The third lecture in the series was split up into two distinct parts. In the first half, I abandoned the
Last week in my second MTeach lecture I talked about a progression of software to match the progression of compositional
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. What a lot of information in a short space of time.
I’m a casual lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, because I just can’t fit enough things in my life.
A few people have written to me recently saying that the Learn Sibelius in 1 Hour videos weren’t loading for