Catalysts & Connections - Evan Tobias

Have you ever seen some of the interesting projects students work on in their technology (once known as “shop” ) classes and wished you could collaborate with those teachers to come up with a project that would combine music, technology and a little electrical engineering?
Some students who like to work with electronics might want to […]

I don’t own a Wii and it is likely that the average music educator doesn’t either, however some of our students probably do. I have a feeling students would enjoy merging their video game finger dexterity with music mixing skills. Is this a look at a new possibility for integrating technology in the music classroom?

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Do you or your students ever make use of internet “radio” streaming sites? Sites like Pandora or non commercial radio stations affiliated with NPR or Pacifica for example offer wonderful teaching resources, that is if they are able to afford the recent royalty rate changes for digital streaming.
While the issues of legality and […]

Please join me in welcoming Miikka Salavuo, from the Sibelius Academy in Helskinki, to the music education blogosphere! The first blog post and the discussion that follows it in comments, raise some very interesting points on the implications of blogging in higher education, the future of refereed journals and how the internet will shape […]

Besides being a great resource for information on music and composers, the Online Conservatory (a project of Northeastern University and the Boston Symphony Orchestra) serves as a possible model for the next generation of concert notes. While many music teaches have their students work on concert notes for programs, the use of multimedia resources could […]

 Pre-Mixing Rjd2
I’m a big fan of musicians allowing people to remix their music. Hip Hop musician Rjd2 is currently allowing people to pre-mix his music. Unlike a remix in which one works on a piece of music already created, Rjd2 has provided people with samples from a track yet to be released and inviting people […]

Have you checked to see if any of your music classes have made their way onto You Tube? You may be amazed at the number of music classes that have been recorded by students and posted onto this video sharing site. What would drive a student to do this? Is there a certain type of […]

Thank you to the people 0r person?  at the Online Education Database for naming Catalysts & Connections one of the top 100 education blogs. Congratulations to all of the other blogs on the list. It is definitely worth your time to take a look at them.  At the same time take into consideration the perspectives […]

Did you know that MENC  has been creating and archiving podcasts called “Notes from the Clef”? Several webinars  are also planned to start in 2007. Why not check them out and let people know what you think?

How long will it be before we refer to instruments, not as electric, but as digital? The Gibson digital guitar maybe the start of the trend. The fact that the guitar is digital is interesting, but the possibilities that exist due to its design are more so. If students were to begin using digital guitars […]