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Kat Marie’s Facebook Marketing Initiative Hi all. Several of you have been asking about how to advertise online for students. I said I would share anything that I came across. . One of our newer Simply Music Teachers, Kat Marie, has been posting about her…

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Has anybody had to do their introductory session online yet ? Has anybody thought about recording themselves talking and sending it to possible future students or post it live on Facebook ? I don’t know if I’d do a recorded version as I believe it…

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IMPORTANT UPDATE to Zoom. In addition to all of the security enhancements that have been made to the Zoom mettings desktop client and apps, they have also added ORIGINAL SOUND for mobile devices!👍🥳🙌 This is available for all iOS and Android devices. On iOS devices,…

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I’ve been teaching a few students online for 4 yrs, without headphones and decided yesterday to give it a try, just using some simple ear buds with a built in mic on the cord. What a difference for both me and my families! chances are…

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I’ve got my phone mounted over my keyboard as a camera with the lens facing down at the keyboard (camera view, not selfie view) and Zoom will NOT display the view horizontally! Instead it’s a vertical view only in the meeting. When I try to…

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Ok now that everyone is teaching online……how about an online recital? You’d have to have Zoom pro. Or I saw on Pinterest a teacher had kids make videos with their phones and she compiled them and put it on YouTube in a way none could…

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A number of my students are from Chinese families who are used to using WeChat for online contact and video calls. One of them helped me set up a WeChat account yesterday and I will teach through WeChat tomorrow. I am quite excited and it…

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For any teachers that are wanting a more thorough way to explain setup direction/instructions to students, I created a video tutorial series as a well as a guide. You can see it at the link below. Feel free to use it or duplicate it how…

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Question for experienced Zoom users with a Mac- can you share Ibooks to your screen? I have all my Simply Music curriculum in Ibooks- when I tried to share my screen I could share websites and pdfs, but I couldn’t seem to get Ibooks to…

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Another online teaching question… How do you do the notes at the end of the lesson? I may have the camera on my whiteboard as I write it. Or I just speak out what they need to write. I have them send me a photo of…

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