Beyond Practice Tracks: Technology for Choral

Conductors

Jennifer Sengin & Marjorie LoPresti

I teach singing, why do I need technology? I dont plug

this in.
o Some states are requiring more technology in
curriculum,
o Acquiring money
Margs rule #1
o Use what you have, BYOD bring your own device
o Pc or mac?
o Audition/Class individual recordings
Mic/ field recorders
Individual recording during choir rehearsal
Less time/ documentation
Less class time wasted
Installed or Cloud based software or apps?

What tech can help to make rehearsal more efficient?

o Students Download keyboard/tuning/metronome etc
Sectional work
Cant play like a real piano, so they use more
interval/build skills
Observation methods? Strong, Marzono, etc?
Instructional Videos
 Sight Reading Factory
o Awesome
o WOW I LOVE IT
o Independently licensed
o Online
o Like google classroom but better
o How it works
Pick key, time signature, etc
CREATE sight reading exercises that correlate
to a piece
Randomizes with an algorithm.
A dollar a student
Parameters, length, disappearing, tempo, etc
Can be S-A-T-B
All about that bass.. instructional video
o then read my f clef
Setting up a dedicated YouTube channel for teaching
videos/things that are just demonstration
Document Camera are the shiz- 300 dollars- showing
scores
o Hovercam solo 8 small 4 inch footprint, usb power
Four Score?
o Projection
o iPad
o View score, write in your own markings
o Zoom/marking up

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 o Ipad carts

Tablet Pen
o Project changes/help
Document your connections with outside people
GOOGLE FORMS are great for assessment/voting- BYOD
o Survey monkey, if you have more than 100 people,
costs money.

In tune app
o Determine if the note is half step higher or lower
PhotoScore
o Syncs with sylbalius
o Do not do free one
o Reads, and converts it into legitimate notation
o Arranging/shorten/etc
o Careful for copyright
CPDL <3 Choral public domain library
o MIDIs
o Rewrite parts
COPYRIGHT VIOLATION
o Do not post backing tracks or anything that is
copyright publicly
Google Classroom
o Subscribe with a gmail

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 TECH LAW-Students under 13 cannot subscribe
with a personal email without a parent
permission
MAKE SURE they use a school subscribed email

Music First

WikiSpaces
o Plays online
PB Works

WEBSITES:
Rule #2
o There is no such thing as free,
Student identity
Your personal data
Dont ask students to make personal accounts
MIDI doesnt teach them musicality
o We are missing an opportunity if we have them
learn all by midi beforehand
o Cut and dry

1. Musictheory.net
a. Challenge mode
Teacher set parameters
b. Exercise creator
2. Teoria.com
a. Same concepts
b. Powerful dictation stuf
c. Bilingual, good for Spanish integrated schools
3. CyberBase.com
a. Reinforcement

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 b. Prerecorded pieces
4. KAHOOT
5.

Assessment:
Smartmusic is adding vocal options, cloud based
Polleverywhere.com
o Free, up to a certain amount of people
o quick and dirty
You can embed audiofiles onto google form
Flubaroo?
Kahoot!!!!!
Plickers
o Set of 63
o paper
o Fucking free
o Shapes
o Scan with your phone
o Attendance, etc
o SCAN AROUND A ROOM AND POPULATE DATA
o WOWOWOWOWOWOW
o Tablet/Smartphone
Choral library on google drive
Google form puts it into a doc for you
Chris russel @choirguy
Techinmusiced.com
Technologoy for the classical singer
LINK TO PRESENTATION
https://tinyurl.com/mcn56fs
JenniferSengin@gmail.com
Marjorielopresti@gmail.com

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