Thing 8: Photo Sharing

I uploaded some travel photos, some of my garden harvest, and a running photo from a race.

my Flickr screen name is runwithtunes.


I have been a victim of a total computer crash which resulted in the loss [technician error at shop] of a couple thousand family photos. I do upload many now to a site to have a backup.

Establishing Flickr was very easy, as I already have a Yahoo ID. I did not know that Yahoo governed Flickr until I tried to establish an account and was asked for my password. Photo uploading was easy-as most of these type of sites are, and I applied the recommendation from the instructional video to add tags etc.

Possible educational setting uses: music groups have numerous performance & travel experiences which are great to document & share; music students audition for state and university honor group selection & publicizing these is not only good for record keeping, but also publicity and recruitment.

Thing 7: RSS Feeds & Google Reader

As other classmates have shared, Google Reader automatically had me as an account user and connected the blogs to which I had followed from week one of the course.

I subscribed to a running magazine feed, an endurance runner's blog, a St. Louis beer news feed, and allaboutjazz.

I subscribed to the classmate blogs of Hannah Fishburn, Shea Moore, and Kim Clausen.

The educational settings which I believe present possibilities: humanities students and jazz students can follow current composers & artists and get an inside view/updates to real people. Often times I believe there is a disconnect between those professionals and the consumers. They all have a story that we should investigate from time to time. Knowing the history behind the music makes it all the more meaningful IMO.

Thing 6: Twitter

My Twitter name is runwithtunes.


This is the early phase of the marching arts Drum Corps International competitive season that culminates the second week of August in Indianapolis. I have chosen to follow the host organization and two participating ensembles. The three Twitter names are: drumcorpsintl, scvanguard, and PhantomRegiment.

I am following classmate Amy Murray because we both love to cook, I however do not have a crush on Anthony Bourdain.......but I do follow him on FB and watch his show.

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During summer 2009 I took Mr. Cox's Web 2.0 class and one of the "assignments" was utilization of Twitter. Unfortunately, it never allowed us to establish accounts while we were in the business lab at GHS-so it was pretty much a fail. That was my only opportunity for access, so I dropped interest.

Of course, many have "made their name" through the years with their posts, so I believe Twitter has a reputation these days. Could it be useful? I suppose in certain situations, yet I'm not yet convinced it provides anything quite unique that other web technologies cannot also provide.

I'll be interested to have the "inside" info from the two drum corps postings. I will be able to compare those posts to the information I seek daily regarding their activities & competitions throughout the competitive season.

Cloud Computing

I was somewhat familiar with Google.docs previously, as I was a student in Mr. Cox's Web 2.0 class two summers ago. I "follow" one document occasionally as yet another reference in the ongoing search for quality music literature programming ideas.


I have used "Thing 5" cloud computing already with my students as a survey tool. The two most often utilized surveys were devised to select end of the season Pep Band favorite tunes as well as Senior choices of literature which they have most enjoyed performing during their high school career. 


I enjoyed discovering the flexibility in sharing a pre-existing document with Bob Cox by simply editing the recipient list-which included one of our current "17 Things" class members!!

Social Bookmarking

Started a project on delicious.com that I hope will prove beneficial. When I began this profession a good number of years ago, it was relatively easy [if making a decent effort] to keep abreast of all the publishers of concert band music. It is now MUCH more diverse and keeping track is exponentially more time consuming.

So, I will attempt to utilize social bookmarking to assist in this professional task.

my delicious account username is the same as this blog name:

runwithtunes


Thus far, I have added 16 bookmarks & corresponding tags to help sort the publishers. One of the challenges has been that just using the tag 'band' does not distinguish my scholastic ensemble specific interest from any/all types of bands, so I have used the tag of concertband-but feel I might have difficulty finding others who have used the same tag. We shall see.

Here's a great video of Bobby McFerrin

He was on the panel at the World Science Festival.


http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html

Starting out

Well, first off a bit of introduction:


I teach instrumental music to 9th-12th graders; as well as Music Theory, AP Music Theory, and Humanities at Glenwood High School in Chatham IL


I have just completed my 25th year of public school teaching, and have also served on the music faculties at Monmouth College, Illinois College, MacMurray College, and Western Illinois University.


I am an avid long distance runner, with the marathon being my favorite distance. I have completed 20 thus far and have broken the 3 hour barrier at the Chicago Marathon in 2009 & 2010.


I love to train while listening to music.


I run with tunes.