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My thanks for ACDA Northwest Division President-elect Dr. Gary Weidenaar for pointing me to the thinking of Chip and Dan Heath in their 2008 book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. For anyone interested in creativity and innovation, this book gives thought-provoking stories to back up the authors' thesis that "stickiness" […]

Mike Sheibe posted this on his Facebook account . . . I thought it was too cool not to share with the ChoralNet audience:    

I talked about how I use the Myers-Briggs in my choral conducting class earlier this week.   I thought I would share a little more – Here is an overview I gave to my students about the Myers-Briggs (see below).  If you are interested in finding out what your personality type is, take the test on […]

I cover two concepts in my choral conducting class that are not about conducting.  One is the Myers-Briggs personality test, the other is the Seven Habits of Highly Effective people.     First, I have all my students take the Myers Briggs personality test and read about themselves.  My theory is this – we can't […]

I'm not sure if Adele is the best voice of this generation, but I really like the way she sings!   Listen to Adele here if you don't know who we are talking about:       Thanks, A Cappella News, for all the great leads.

I had the opportunity to present a technology session at the Southern ACDA Conference at a roundtable.   Afterwards, Pat Boozer talked to me about her creations for choral music educators:  StaffWriter and SingASign.   Read about them here:   StaffWriter is a basic music font for making tests, activity pages, games, music dictionaries, PPT […]

Congratulations to Eric Whitacre for winning the grammy this year.       For those who have trouble with embedded video.

Continuing on the theme from yesterday:    

I found this on A Cappella News: