MusicTech@UNCG http://musictech.uncg.edu Brian Thacker, Instructional Technology Consultant Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:56:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 NC-ACTE Conference http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/09/23/nc-acte-conference/ http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/09/23/nc-acte-conference/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:23:31 +0000 Brian http://musictech.uncg.edu/?p=719 September 24, 2009

Providing technical support for presentors at the 2009 NC-ACTE Conference

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The School of Music ITC will continue to create any content you need for your course, but it is the responsibility of the faculty to use it within the confines of the law.

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]]> http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/08/18/course-combination-requests/feed/ 0 Lime Survey Now Hosted on MusicTech http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/06/11/lime-survey-now-hosted-on-musictech/ http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/06/11/lime-survey-now-hosted-on-musictech/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:23:53 +0000 Brian http://musictech.uncg.edu/?p=630 logoAfter a request from Dr. Elizabeth Keathley for help in creating an on-line survey for the FMT10 conference, I found the open source package LimeSurvey. We are currently planning to use it for Dr. Keathley’s work and if all goes well, it will be offered to the faculty in general. Please contact me if you are interested in using this package, and I will have a demo survey and copies of it results periodically available.

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SmartMusic clinic for James Madison University’s music education students.

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SmartMusic and Finale Clinic for the faculty and students of the University of the Cumberlands.

]]> http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/04/09/smartmusic-clinic/feed/ 0 NC Trombone Festival Improv Clinic http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/04/04/nc-trombone-festival-improv-clinic/ http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/04/04/nc-trombone-festival-improv-clinic/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:39:02 +0000 Brian http://musictech.uncg.edu/?p=573 As promised in the clinic here are a number of downloads related to my improvisation clinic at the North Carolina Trombone Festival. Included below are PDF versions of the handout and leadsheets as well as SmartMusic versions and MP3s versions of the changes. Thanks to everyone who attended the clinic!

Basic Improvisation For Beginners PDF

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Website: Paper CD Case

]]> http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/03/30/paper-cd-case-website/feed/ 0 Audacity http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/03/19/audacity/ http://musictech.uncg.edu/2009/03/19/audacity/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:54:57 +0000 Brian http://musictech.uncg.edu/?p=496 Audacity ScreenshotAudacity is open source and cross platform software designed for audio recording aned editing. It can also be extended with the use of plugins to provide additional editing features and effects. Being cross platform you can use the program on Windows, OS X, or Linux. I personally use it to make edits to files ripped from CDs for use in the classroom, because of it’s ease of use in creating fade-ins and fade-outs to make the example have a more professional sound. Any faculty that would like to make use of this software can contact me for individual training. There will be a “cheat-sheet” tutorial on this site in the near future.

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