virtual music education Archives

Musicast Episode 4: Kirsten C. Kunkle – Passionate Pioneering

By music cast|2020-10-21T04:27:29-05:00October 21st, 2020|musicast podcast|

Soprano Kirsten C. Kunkle has been hailed as an outstanding singing actress with a voice that has been described as beautiful, ethereal, powerful, fiery, and bewitching. he attended Bowling Green State University and the University of Salzburg for her undergraduate studies, majoring in voice performance with minors in Italian and German. Her graduate degrees are in voice performance from the University of Michigan. A voting member of the Muscogee Nation, Dr. Kunkle commissioned and premiered sixteen original compositions, including one of her own, based upon the poetry of her ancestor and highly-acclaimed poet of the Native American Muscogee Nation, Alex Posey. [...]

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Remote music teaching: An honest review of Moosiko and SmartMusic

By Sarah Gulish|2020-04-12T12:12:39-05:00April 9th, 2020|Orchestra, Remote music teaching, Teaching, Virtual education|

Like many other music teachers, I am in the strange position of being a (sudden) virtual teacher. On March 12th, 2020, the governor for our state of Pennsylvania held a press conference in which he announced the immediate shutdown of all schools in Montgomery County, the county in [...]

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Teaching Music Online: Strategies and Resources

By Sarah Gulish|2020-09-10T04:16:54-05:00March 14th, 2020|Band, Choir, General Music, Inspiration, Middle school, Music Service Learning, Orchestra, Teaching, Teaching Philosophy, Virtual education|

(Note: this post will continue to be updated with resources as they come in) As I write this post, I am looking at a dozens of text messages from other teachers in my school district. We just received news that we would be closed for at least [...]

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Viral teaching: How the coronavirus has changed my work

By Naarah Callender|2020-02-18T14:16:30-05:00February 18th, 2020|Choir, General Music, Inspiration, Middle school, Stories, Teaching, Teaching Philosophy, Virtual education|

The start of corona It would be extremely difficult to turn on the TV, radio, or even YouTube without seeing some form of announcement or article about the novel coronavirus -- not so lovingly called “corona” for short by some of us who have found ourselves closest to [...]

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You teach what?!: Music education in virtual schools

By Michelle Rose|2020-01-14T15:01:19-05:00January 14th, 2020|Band, Choir, General Music, Inspiration, Middle school, Musicians, Stories, Teaching, Teaching Philosophy, Virtual education|

Virtual Education When I tell people I teach music at a virtual school, they often have a hard time wrapping their heads around how it all works. My school has no physical school building. All of the teachers, students, and staff go to school via computer. Yes, I [...]

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