Avid Scorch for iPad in the classroom
Avid released their first iPad app only a few weeks ago, and it’s for my favourite ever software title – […]
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Music education
Music education, UWS MTeach lecture series
#UWSMTeach lecture 1, 2011
What a start. Tutorial before the lecture. Fitting a 90 minute lecture into 60 minutes. A proxy server that blocked
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The iPad and reading
The iPad has been, on the whole, an enormous disappointment to me. Those who know me well or follow me
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Tutorial notes week 7 – and resources from the lecture
In the tutorial this week we created our own Wiki on the topic of music technology for education. After discussing
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Lecture notes week 7 – typed up on my iPad
I have a feeling that these lecture notes will be fairly skinny. It’s not that I’m being lazy or don’t
Music education, Music technology, UWS MTeach lecture series
All about the form(at)
Being a music teacher is the most incredible, creative fun I’m spoilt for choice, and spoilt by choice. I have
Music education, UWS MTeach lecture series
The importance of feedback … and agricultural learning …
My blog has been cold since the last article for my #UWSMTeach students. Similarly, I haven’t been rabidly tweeting the
Music education, UWS MTeach lecture series
Sometimes your students learn in spite of you
Well, that was fun yesterday, wasn’t it? Lecture notes are coming so keep your eyes peeled for them. In the
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Lecture notes from lecture 4
I swapped the content for lectures 4 and 5 around because I have been able to augment the lecture on
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Do as I say, and do as I do.
Sleeping is definitely overrated. All I can say is that I’m jolly glad that my rather lovely father-in-law likes to
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Lecture notes week 3
The third lecture in the series was split up into two distinct parts. In the first half, I abandoned the
Music education, UWS MTeach lecture series
Sometimes technology will beat you…
I like to have my lecture notes out by Thursday, and as I fade into tiredness I have to admit
Music education, UWS MTeach lecture series
Opportunity for music educators to get some online exposure
To music educators out there, especially my #uwsmteach rabble… Serendipitously received this email this morning from an educator in the
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Step-sequencing for primary school?
Last week in my second MTeach lecture I talked about a progression of software to match the progression of compositional
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UWS MTeach lecture 2
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. What a lot of information in a short space of time.
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UWS MTeach lecture 1
I’m a casual lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, because I just can’t fit enough things in my life.
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Learn Sibelius in 1 hour videos now Flash, not Quicktime
A few people have written to me recently saying that the Learn Sibelius in 1 Hour videos weren’t loading for
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New composition tutorial series: Developing an idea with Sibelius 6
This series of videos, then, shows the student how to use the plug-ins. But it does a little more than that. It provides context by looking first at how Beethoven, the master of development, transforms ideas in the first subject of the first movement of his third symphony…
Composition, Music education, Music technology
Soundhouse conference, alongside AMAC 2009
As I write I’m just on the way back from the Soundhouse conference which took place at the Australian Music
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MLC’s Australian Music Day timeline website
Composer Damian Barbeler and web development company Firefly Interactive have combined to create an amazing new website to support MLC
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Learn Sibelius in 1 hour passes 5,000 hits in various locations
Well, I only ever intended it as a rough collection of videos made as soon as possible after Sibelius 6
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Teaching composition and the affect of technology
At the moment I’m really enjoying reading (and commenting on!) another composer’s blog. The composer in question is Kenneth Froelich
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Why give all this music and these resources away for free?
Well, I’ve been Tweeting regularly for several months now, and keeping a ‘latest news’ list on the front page of
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SixEightThreeFour
This piece is part of my Symphony of the Child, commissioned and premiered by the International Grammar School in Sydney in