Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Confession: I'm a Geek

I love music. I love teaching.  I love technology.  I love teaching music and I am occasionally terrified of technology much more than my high schoolers terrify me.  I admit that I am currently sitting at a technology conference for teachers.  Here's my first tweet.



Impressive isn't it?  My husband is sitting beside me making fun of my mad typing skills.  My brain is feeling completely overloaded with all of the information that I have received in the last 36 hours.  In the middle of the session about Google Sites, I gave up and just started jotting down notes in the body of my new website which is probably somewhere in the abyss of the internet, being accessed by a creeper in the middle of nowhere instead of being offline like I mean it to be.  Information is overwhelming.

Let's see, some of the tools that I've learned about (so that I can remember them in the future):

Twitter (I've finally succumbed to this)
Aurasma
Quiver
Shazam
Google Classroom
Musictheory.net
Google Sites
Storify.com
Formative
Kahoots (Check out my second tweet. I won!)




(OK, I admit that I find it a bit creepy that all of these people tweeted the picture of my name.)

Do you have favorite teaching apps that would work for music? I'm in one of those moods right now that I would like to explore tons of different things.  Is there anyone out there that would like to be a geeky music teacher with me?