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This is a compelling presentation about integrating social media.  It looks like everything is linked so that the teacher has to do only minimal work – worth a look!     Gluing together Blackboard, Facebook, and Twitter View more presentations from Matthew Leingang

We don’t know how to control our “vocal muscles.”   That is from Scientific American and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: In a series of pitch-matching experiments, nonmusicians were pretty good at adjusting an instrument to match a specific note, suggesting that they could hear it just fine. They had much more trouble, however, imitating […]

We talked about the high percentage of caucasians at the recent ACDA leadership conference in Dallas and I blogged about it here the other day.   The general feeling was that we better start paying attention to the cultural diversity of the United States and especially the Latino population.   But what about the Asian […]

The national leadership of ACDA recently met in Dallas to brainstorm the next direction for our organization.   One of the most important parts of that brainstorming was a survey that was recently distributed to the membership.   But let’s here from the ChoralNet participants:   What is ACDA’s biggest problem?   What one thing […]

It is a courageous act to examine your weaknesses.   ACDA is acting with courage these days and looking intently at the problems of the organization.  One of the themes that really impacted the ACDA leadership was the fact that our membership was 93% Caucasian – or, at least – that 93% of the respondants […]

 The ACDA leadership met this past weekend and had a tremendous time of discussion, brainstorming, envisioning, and planning.   Pictured here is our Executive Director Tim Sharp who is standing in front of a list of concerns the leadership had about our organization – identifying our problems was an important part of planning who we […]