iPads in Music EducationA Presentation for the Wisconsin Music Educators Association

Christopher J. Russell

techinmusiced.com

Practical Technology for Music Education (in the iBookstore)

Director of Choirs, Fine Arts Department Chair, and Tech Coach at East Ridge High School in Woodbury, MN

Hometown: Oconomowoc, WI

“Technology alone is not enough. [It is] technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.”

--Steve Jobs, iPad 2 Introduction, March 2, 2011

A simple survey...• How many of you have an iPad and use it in your

teaching (love it)?

• How many of you have an iPad and want to use it in your teaching (wondering about it)?

• How many of you want an iPad and want to learn more about it for your teaching (covet it)?

• How many of you don't want an iPad but see the writing on the wall (despise it)?

We'll have something for everyone today.

A new app, a new idea, new horizons

Why the iPad?

Ease of Use

Apps

Wireless Mirroring

Apple's Walled Garden

Everything "just works"

Are you comparing an iPad to a notebook computer, or to a

pencil and paper?

The ability to SUBSTITUTE

is crucial.

The iPad fits in a music classroom

• General Music

• Performance Classes (BCO)

• Guitar

• Theory

• Music History

• Music Technology

"As of 2010, every time I see a school adopt a 1-to-1 technology with laptops, I know that the arts (and other electives)

are not a priority for that school."

--Me.

Music Education also has to fight its own anachronism.

Anachromism 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time.

You can watch this video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnACGsS6xUk

How can the iPad be used in music education?

• Teacher Only (traditional model)

• Individual students (self-purchase)

• Small groups/Sectionals

• 1-to-1 Applications (the future)

The iPad works best as a single-user device.

Unfortunately, not all schools or families can afford this approach.

Frasier Speirs (www.speirs.org) (2010)

"I speak to a lot of schools who envisage the iPad in the roles that PCs formerly occupied. The Computers on Wheels become an iPad cart, checkout notebooks become checkout iPads, PC labs become iPad labs.

That's not how the iPad is designed and the iPad is an extremely uncomfortable fit for those roles defined in another era. The iPad is not another "thing" to have in your classroom in the way you might buy a microscope for every station in a science lab. You can't easily share an iPad the way you might have students share a digital camera.

The iPad is an intensely personal device. In its design, it is, truly, much more like a big iPhone than a small laptop. The iPad isn't something you pass around. It's not really designed to be a resource that many people take advantage of. It is designed to be owned, configured to your tastes and needs, invested in and curated."

• Although you want to know the apps, it isn't just about the apps.

• Chris Lehman & Andrew Marcinek:

• Lehman: "Technology should be like oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary and invisible."

• Marcinek: “Technology should not stand out; it should simply blend with dynamic teachers and the engaging curriculum they design.”

• iPad integration becomes an issue of how to use the device in your teaching--and there are no definitive answers on how to do this.

• iPadagogy

• "There are literally thousands [of apps] available in the App Store, and no one person is an expert on the subject. The best resources for teachers wanting to incorporate iPads into their curriculum are their neighbors and colleagues in the music community."

Jed Smart, Teaching Music, October 2012

• That said, here are a number of "tried and true" apps to look at.

• Have a favorite music ed app that is not listed? E-mail the name of the app to me!

Apps

iPad as Sheet Music

DeepDishDesigns GigBook

unrealBookforScore The Gig Easy MusicReader PDF

• Open PDF Files

• Turn Pages

• Find Pages Quickly

• Annotate

• Setlists or Playlists

• Hotspots or Links (repeats, Coda, D.S.)

• Import without using iTunes

• Annotate

Other iPad Music Readers

Avid Scorch MuseScore Reader Finale Songbook SeeScore

Music Notation & Composition

Notion Symphony Pro Noteshelf GarageBand

Interactive White Board

SMART Notebook for iPad

Presentation Software

Doodlecast Pro

ShowMe

Skitch

Explain Everything

Keynote Paper by 53 Disp. Recorder

Remote Control of PC

Splashtop 2 Doceri

Music Theory

TenutoTheory Lessons Octavian Music Theory

for BeginnersMapping Tonal Harmony Pro

Sight Reading

Sight Reader

Guitar

Progression TabToolkitGuitar Toolkit

Ampkit Guitar PadWild Chords

Movie Editing

iMovie Pinnacle Studio

Recorder

AtPlay Recorder Recorder+ RecorderMaster

Document Camera

Camera

Classroom Management

Safari Teacher Kit Class Dojo

Music History

My First Classical Music App

A Jazzy Day Swinging with the

Big Band

Composer of the Day (iPhone)

Music Instruments

GarageBand RockMate MadPad HDMagic Fiddle

Percussive Percussive Latin

Accordéon HD

Thumb Jam

Elementary Music

Dr. Seuss Band

Mozart Interactive

My Musical Friends HD

Melody Street HD

Musical MeMy Note Games

Do Re Mi 123

Singing Fingers

Elementary MusicContinued

Monkey Drum Flashnote DerbyClassical Kids Book Series

NoteWorks PianoPad

Tuners

ClearTune iStrobosoft HD

Metronome

Metronome (Tempo Frozen Ape) Visual Metronome Maestro XL

Many apps have built-in metronomes

PDF

GoodreaderPDF Expert

Piano

Tonara Dust BusterPluto Piano HD

Pianist Pro

Office Suite

PagesKeynote Numbers

Social Networking

HootSuite Blogsy

Miscellaneous

Dropbox APS MusicMaster

Pro

Fingering Strings

Fingering for iPad

iRealb SmartMusic Inbox

SoundHound Musictionary

Evernote Instapaper

Chromatik (coming soon)

My top 5

unrealBook

forScore

Notion NoteshelfKeynote

Great Accessories

How the iPad is used in my program (high school choir)

iPadagogy

• iPad is mirrored all day with Reflection on my Mac

• The iPad is the Source of all my music, annotated & usually linked to audio files generated with Finale

• I take attendance with a seating chart created in Touch Draw (riser layout), made as a PDF in Noteshelf, labeled in PDF Expert, and annotated in forScore

• Enter attendance on my Mac (faster--Infinite Campus)

• Switch back to iPad, open Keynote.

• Every day I make a keynote that has announcements, warm-ups, and sight-reading (and on rare occasion, something else, like an alternative schedule or something humorous)

• The sight-singing comes from a PDF in forScore, which I take a screen shot of (sometimes annotate), drop into Keynote, and mask what I don't want.

• Then I go to forScore for the rest of the rehearsal, marking as necessary.

• I also use the iPad to take notes, occasionally teach theory (Noteshelf with staff paper template), guitar, and for solo work, small ensembles, and our musical theater productions.

• I can quickly take care of discipline issues with ClassDojo.

• I charge the iPad when I'm not using it

• Remember: audio is linked, too!

• About 20 of my students have their own iPad. I ask them to buy forScore as a music reader.

• Another six or so have Kindle Fire readers, and use a reader like EZ PDF Reader...there just isn't anything for Android as good as what is available for the iPad with music reading.

Big Questions• What if your students have iPads? What is

your school policy? What is your policy?

• Classroom management tools & rules

• Guided Access (new in iOS6)

• Resources? (visit techinmusiced.com for links) [Virtual PLCs]

Questions?

Christopher J. Russell

techinmusiced.com

Practical Technology for Music Education (in the iBookstore)