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Archive for the 'technology' Category

iPad/iPhone app for developing string crossings

Yazan: Jason | 01 April 2011 | No Comments
Categories: bass, technology

I got a chance to chat for a bit with Ohio State University bass professor Paul Robinson at the ASTA conference earlier this months, and he told me about an app that he had developed for the iPad and iPhone (universal app-works in a good format on both) that generates random string crossing exercises according [...]

My class tech projects

Yazan: Jason | 08 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: technology

I’m wrapping up teaching a music technology course for music education students at DePaul, and I’ve been looking back at what worked well and what didn’t in terms of projects. One of the ones that seemed to be a hit in the class was the following project–in GarageBand, they were to design their own soundtrack [...]

New iPhone WordPress app allows video

Yazan: Jason | 24 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: technology

If you needed any more reasons to try WordPress, here’s another good one for you: the WordPress iPhone app now supports recording and uploading video directly to your blog. I’ll test it now and see how it works… Your browser does not support the video tag

iPad Orchestra

Yazan: Jason | 10 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: technology, videos

I’m a massive iPad fan, using it every day for probably an hour or two at the minimum. I read my daily paper on it, do most of my surfing on it, plan classes while on the train, and also use a ton of music apps for my teaching. One app that I haven’t checked [...]

Teaching music technology to education students at DePaul

Yazan: Jason | 07 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: education, technology

This week is the first week of the fall quarter at DePaul University, and I’m doing a fair amount of teaching there this quarter: bass lessons, string pedagogy, and the technology class for music education students. As I set up for this class, I can’t help but recall a post I wrote a few years [...]