Taking Attendance on the iPad, by Stephen Rotz If you have large ensembles, you know that taking attendance is not always simple. Inspired by Barbara Retzko’s article in ChorTeach, I have begun taking attendance using the iPhone/iPad app ‘Attendance2’ by David Reed. It is a fantastic tool that is worth much more than the $4.99 […]
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New Google Drive Features Open New Choral Possibilities
Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) is a very powerful tool for sharing files and information amongst large groups or multiple devices. Whether through your own Google account or through a Google Apps for Education (or Business) system, using Google Drive lets you create entire folder/file structures that can be shared with anyone you choose […]
Turn your Mac into a Sheet Music Database
Tired of the piles of music that you collect after a reading session? Wish you could remember where to find a particular motet or chant? It sometimes seems like devising a personal system for organizing your scores and octavos is a rite of passage for choral directors, and there are myriad strategies and tools available. […]
Stick Time: Musical Dangers of a Doritos® Diet
Yes, they’re delightfully crunchy, addictively tasty, and munched by Americans in unimaginable amounts (one processing plant in Georgia produces 250 million pounds each year). But they are also about as nutritious as a piece of cardboard. No responsible parent would serve snack chips as the mainstay of their child’s diet. Shouldn’t the same standard […]
Google Sites Host Your Choir’s Resources
We’ve talked in the past about setting up websites for sharing your choir’s information with the world, but you might want a website for a different purpose: sharing information internally with your choir. There are some immediate benefits to having a central place where all of your musicians can access materials, see the practice calendar, […]
Just Add Singers: iPad Recipes for Audio Recording
(edtechteacher.org) So far in discussing iOS, we've talked about some of the microphone options, as well as some of the apps available. Many people using the iPad, though, get limited in the possibilities of iOS by working only within one app space. We talked about this a bit when we discussed apps in […]