You may have noticed that ChoralBlog has been expanding recently– adding guest bloggers and trying to spread our scope to present as comprehensive a discussion of choral topics as possible. For many people, ChoralBlog is the most obvious (or even the only?) part of ChoralNet, but our increased focus on ChoralBlog shouldn’t distract from the […]
Use Lang-8 to Help Foreign Text Translation
There are a variety of great tools online to help with foreign language text. Google Translate, for example, can help us determine the meaning of a musically-important word in a text setting, and great online dictionaries abound. Of course, many great editions give text translations out of the box, but sometimes we really want to […]
Choral Tech: Surviving (and Thriving!) at Conference
National Conference time is upon us! For those of us who love conference time as an opportunity to recharge our inspiration, add new tools and literature to our toolboxes, and meet or reconnect with our peers, it's an exciting week ahead. It's also an exhausting one– It often seems like everything in conferences boils down […]
ChoralTech: Never Hand Out Anything Again
Handing out paper in a rehearsal is almost always a disaster: the sound of shuffling papers, the inevitable “I lost it,” always having too many copies or not enough, typos that aren’t discovered until it’s too late… Let’s take a couple of minutes and get rid of this “handing out notes” chaos forever using two […]
Guest ChoralTech: I Have a Website, Now What?
Guest ChoralTech Blogger Seth Garrepy has taken us through why we need a website, and how to purchase one– in the third and final part of this DIY Website Crash Course, Seth tells us what to do with it once we have one! “I Have a Website, Now What?” In the past two […]
Guest ChoralTech: DIY Websites–Buy This, Get a Website
Does your choir need a website? Yes! Yes, it does! This is the second in ChoralTech Guest Blogger Seth Garrepy’s series on DIY Web Design. Check out his first article while you’re at it, and come back next week for the thrilling conclusion. “Buy this, Get a Website” It’s almost too good to be true. […]