I am horrendous at using Twitter, but it's time to get better! I don't even know if I will attach my handle correct, which makes me sound like I'm 95.... My Twitter handle is: @MrWhiteGuitar1
I forgot that I shared a high school's contribution to the SCMEA All-State Guitar Virtual Recital. I did not expect them to respond/post their teacher's email (I won't post the response here, just my post). PLN +1
I started to look into areas that I have taught the last 9 years: guitar, and music technology. I have a passion for both of these, but next year I will not be teaching music technology so most of that was just from instinct of researching for my classes. I am getting slightly more comfortable searching, but both of these areas are lacking from an educators perspective. Not a ton of schools teach these, and those who do don't appear to be all that active on Twitter. I'm trying to reach out, primarily in the guitar realm to get some conversations going, but we will see how that goes. I'd like there to be a guitar education hashtag (I tried to get one going, but no one that follows me would actually participate in spreading that, 😂). I need to get more creative and branch out for more class guitar educators. The ones I know really well don't utilize even a personally social media. I have tried to expand the presence/ awareness of guitar education in the state of Illinois, but it's a slow progress. Maybe if I keep tweeting and tagging ILMEA in everything people will start to see me!
I started following PreSonus Education. As their bio says, they support music educators to promote learning of current practices in music education. This will be more tech based. There is a love stream today going over mixing, loop functionality, and live audio.
Guitar Education in Illinois! We need to continue to push it. Nate Jackson and I have both presented and had our ensembles perform at IMEC, and we regularly perform at the Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival. He is someone I model my teaching off of.
I saw that Julie Hensel tweeted plugged @musicedtechtalk and as I teach a lot of music technology, I decided to explore. The very first tweet I saw was "3 Soundtrap Projects That Your Students Will Love!" and I immediately retweeted it. I worked primarily with Soundtrap last year and all 3 of these projects would have gone over very well in my classes. In fact, I did something similar to the last project mentioned. We Remixed either our favorite song if we could find legal stems, or I provided the stems to the remix contest song for ILMEA, so that they could enter if they so choose.
I forgot that I shared a high school's contribution to the SCMEA All-State Guitar Virtual Recital. I did not expect them to respond/post their teacher's email (I won't post the response here, just my post). PLN +1
Summary of week 1 on Twitter:
I started to look into areas that I have taught the last 9 years: guitar, and music technology. I have a passion for both of these, but next year I will not be teaching music technology so most of that was just from instinct of researching for my classes. I am getting slightly more comfortable searching, but both of these areas are lacking from an educators perspective. Not a ton of schools teach these, and those who do don't appear to be all that active on Twitter. I'm trying to reach out, primarily in the guitar realm to get some conversations going, but we will see how that goes. I'd like there to be a guitar education hashtag (I tried to get one going, but no one that follows me would actually participate in spreading that, 😂). I need to get more creative and branch out for more class guitar educators. The ones I know really well don't utilize even a personally social media. I have tried to expand the presence/ awareness of guitar education in the state of Illinois, but it's a slow progress. Maybe if I keep tweeting and tagging ILMEA in everything people will start to see me!
I started following PreSonus Education. As their bio says, they support music educators to promote learning of current practices in music education. This will be more tech based. There is a love stream today going over mixing, loop functionality, and live audio.
Guitar Education in Illinois! We need to continue to push it. Nate Jackson and I have both presented and had our ensembles perform at IMEC, and we regularly perform at the Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival. He is someone I model my teaching off of.
As mentioned earlier, I use Soundtrap often. I FOUND THEIR TWITTER PAGE! Followed.
I saw that Julie Hensel tweeted plugged @musicedtechtalk and as I teach a lot of music technology, I decided to explore. The very first tweet I saw was "3 Soundtrap Projects That Your Students Will Love!" and I immediately retweeted it. I worked primarily with Soundtrap last year and all 3 of these projects would have gone over very well in my classes. In fact, I did something similar to the last project mentioned. We Remixed either our favorite song if we could find legal stems, or I provided the stems to the remix contest song for ILMEA, so that they could enter if they so choose.