NC CDBA Music Technology Presentation 2-1-13

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Topics

1. http://www.noteflight.com/
2. Creating “juding tapes” for students using free Audacity software
3. Group discussion – online professional development networks

Noteflight.com

free and paid options “music writing meets social media”

Noteflight Introduction

• Noteflight Basics
• Noteflight Edit menu
• Noteflight Staff menu
• Noteflight Score, Play, and View menus
• Noteflight Sharing, Versions, Comments, embedding on Blog
• Noteflight File menu, Search

 (screencasts made with screencast-o-matic.com)

Samples of student Noteflight projects

7^th grader

11th grader

Other Noteflight features –

• import/export  midi files to create notation
• import/export music XML with Finale/Sibelius
• export wav files
• Sharing (link or embedding)
• commenting
• “favoriting”

Noteflight Crescendo paid subscription ($49/year) –

• more scores
• more/better instruments
•  audio mixing
• input through midi keyboard
• synchronizing with video
• view/print parts from score

Noteflight Classroom (about $200/year)

• private website (no access to or from outside internet, but you can easily export import files as XML with a free subscription)
• Noteflight also available for multiple teachers or entire school systems

Create “judging tapes” for your students using Audacity software

Audacity – free audio recording/editing software

Multi-track recording

• Play student’s recording in audacity
• Listen with headphones
• Talk over it to create a 2nd track
• Adjust levels so you can hear both tracks
• Export as an MP3 and share with student

Audacity – setting the microphone

Audacity – multi-track recording

Audacity – exporting and MP3 and uploading to a wordpress blog

Online professional development networks

• Get a feed from Brian Wis’ blog. Teaaching Music in the 21st Century. Also Keith Ozvath – technology blog and twitter.
• Twitter online music ed group, tweet back and forth.
• Skyping in other band directors to help.
• Facebook- BDG-CCC Composer/Clinician/Conductor
• More Facebook -Book Club and Article Group
• Other facebook groups BD MS, BD Curriculum, BD HS, BD Nat Board, BD SmartBoard
• BDG (Band Director Group) in Facebook