ASU Digital/Hybrid Lab

This is another tool to create band tracks. It's only $12.99 in the app store. It has high reviews and appears to be an intuitive interface.

I've used this for private lesson and my own practicing. It's great!

In Brass/Woodwinds Methods Lab, Dr. Mantie recommended this as a good backtrack creator to use in the classroom. It's not too expensive and would be a useful tool.

I think this is a prime, fun example of how technology mediates our musical engagement. This is only one example out of many, but heres it is! Enjoy!

8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom. Bringing technology into the classroom often winds up an awkward mash-up between the laws of Murphy and Moore: What can go wrong, will - only faster. It's a multi-headed challenge: Teachers need to connect with classrooms filled with distinct individuals.

The M-Audio M-Track along with Apple's Logic Pro is a easy to use yet versatile music production system. This guide walks through configuring the M-Track with Logic and recording audio.

Automatic tuning is synonymous with many things, good and bad. We take a look at Logic's Pitch Correction and then examine what Auto-Tune can add. Here's a quick guide on how to use Logic's pitch-correction plug-in. Step one: insert it onto the audio track playing back the recording whose pitch you want to correct.

I found a great article that covers music copyright issues in the classroom. Check this article out - The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action-media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media.

A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

We're writing a song for our performance project, and I've used this extensively. I've found it to be quite helpful. At first, I thought it would be dumb to post it, but after some thought I disagreed with my original notion. This tool is an example of how technology is helping songwriters network, through the use of a thesaurus and rhyming. It made the song writing process much more efficient and smoother.

mega digipad.

A lot of great thinkings about digital music education compared to original music education.

Interesting app software website for all music teachers!

Cool video: "When I teach I learn, when I learn I teach"

This is an interesting book I read over winter break.