This is a podcast of the session that I presented titled Web 2.0 in the Music Classroom at the PMEA 2008 Summer Conference held on July 22nd at the Penn Stater Hotel in State College, PA. To access my PowerPoint presentation, visit www.soundtree.com/pmea08.

This is a podcast of of a session that I presented titled "The Music Educators Guide to Copyright Law" at the PMEA 2008 Summer Conference held on July 22nd at the Penn Stater Hotel in State College, PA. To access my PowerPoint presentation, visit www.soundtree.com/pmea08.

This is a podcast of the Keynote Address that I presented at the PMEA 2008 Summer Conference held on July 21st and 22nd at the Penn Stater Hotel in State College, PA. I had the pleasure of co presenting with David Warlick (www.landmark-project.com), who gave a fantastic presentation about the types of students we are teaching and how best to prepare them for the 21st Century. To access my PowerPoint presentation, visit www.soundtree.com/pmea08. The site should be up and running later today.

This podcast contains two recordings that I made yesterday with the Kaossilator Orkestra at the Franklin Avenue Middle School in Franklin Lakes, NJ. The structure of the first piece is based on Morse Code. After giving the students a drum loop, they spelled words using the Kaossilator. This is the third time we have rehearsed together as a group and I am finding that having a system like Morse Code (giving the students a tactile direction) is more successful than some of the other pieces that I have written out for them. The second piece is based on Braille. We chose the word "Rainbow" because there were 7 students yesterday. Each student was assigned a letter from the word and then given direction on how to create each letter using Braille. I was very pleased with the results as the pieces are more controlled than some of the ones we tried in earlier rehearsals. The concept of the Kaossilator Orkestra is becoming clearer as we move forward. Personally, I am thrilled by the possibilities for this type of group in the school setting.

This is a podcast of A&HM 4029 for Monday, April 6th 2008. It is our third and final class tutorial using Sibelius 5.0.