#10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne

Music Ed Tech Talk

Robby’s Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include:

• Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos
• The importance of developing audiation in student musicians
• The strengths of binary performance rubrics
• Art vs. Craft
• Understanding relational databases
• Data-driven music teaching (the good kind)
• Lots more music teaching philosophy

Show Notes:

• Final Cut Pro X
• Logic Pro X
• Screenflow
• LumaFusion
• Logic and Final Cut 90 day free trial
• Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education ($200)
• Alfred 4 for Mac
• Music Ed Tech Talk #9 - Automate All The Things! With Craig McClellan
• David MacDonald | Composer
• Music Ed Tech Talk #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald
• IMSLP
• IMSLP Alfred Search
• 5esrd Alfred Search
• J. W. Pepper
• Bento
• FileMaker
• Book - Robert Duke | Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction
• Tonal Energy Tuner App
• Edwin E. Gordon - Musical Aptitude Profile
• Book - Arnold Jacobs | Wind and Song
• Lynda Course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training
• Lynda Course: Learning FileMaker 17
• Lynda Course: FileMaker Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
• AirTable
• Charms
• Noteflight Announcement about SoundCheck Integration
• SmartMusic
• MusicFirst
• FileMaker 19 Holds Promise for My Music Teaching Workflow | Robbyburns.com
• New York Philharmonic - Digital Archives
• NKoda - An ensemble of sheet music, scores and parts

App of the Week:

Robby - Discord

Ben - IDAGIO

Album of the Week:

Robby - Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground

Ben - Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog

Ben - EMMS Music | HoCoYo

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Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database: Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left)

Image of Performance Packets: