organization

I was wondering if anyones uses a tablet for sheet music, reference books, note taking etc. I saw the “remarkable“ tablet and thought it might work. I would love to decrease and organise all my paper work. I use my iPad and it’s great! I…

• Last updated 2 years ago
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I’m looking to make the switch from my big binders full of my SM materials to something digital. I’m hoping to find a fairly large tablet that would allow me to have all the materials as PDFs and that would have a pen I could…

• Last updated 2 years ago
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I have been teaching for a year and a half now very part time with 12
students and I am just preparing for the new year with learning level
5 etc. I am wondering if it is normal at this stage to feel a little
swamped about how…

• Last updated 3 years ago
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In response to a recent post asking for suggestions on spreadsheets and studio organization, I mentioned a free database software app I have used the past few years called “Airtable.” Airtable is a cloud-based database creator with really exciting possibilities, and the FREE version is…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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Do you keep a video and/or audio portfolio for your students? Thoughts on how to organize one? Storage is becoming an issue for me. I use Dropbox. I store all my files on this. Video, audio, and paper. As it’s cloud storage, you can access…

• Last updated 4 years ago
• digital storage, dropbox, google cloud, organization

I am looking for ideas on how your students organize their printed SHMs and what you ask them to bring to the lesson. When I started teaching in SMD, I had each student bring in a binder with dividers to create sections for each level/program.…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• binders, organization, SHMs, SHMs in class, SHMs in lesson

I am a quite new teacher, with three students who have just finished Foundation 1 and a few others still working in F1. I’m trying to include Comp & Improv, Arrangements, and Accompaniment. How do I remember what to do in each lesson or class?…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• Gordon Harvey, lesson notes, Notes app, organization, organizing teacher notes, private lesson record, shared lesson record, technology

I’m interested in hearing how everyone is dealing with the digital materials in class. My hard copy books are falling apart, and I’m debating on going the pricey route of buying an iPad Pro for the piano or printing out all the materials. For those…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• digital materials, hard copies, iBooks, iPad, organization, organizing materials, organizing SHMs, printed materials, using iPad in lessons

I’m finding I’m sporadic in assigning projects in all the streams, and in an effort to be more consistent I am trying to plan differently. For my lesson plans/tracking I’m going to use the columns idea someone shared recently with Date, Foundation, Accompaniment, Improv and…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• composition, forms, improvisation, Laurie Richards, master list, new teacher, organization, projects

I’m looking for a better way of lesson planning. How do you plan your lessons for the forthcoming week, and when do you prepare for teaching them? I have a small amount of students, so I don’t know if this would work for everyone, but…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• lesson planning, organization, Robin Keehn, white board