First day of students is tomorrow. Mandatory masks, but full classes with minimal (if any) distancing, and they are using cafeterias for lunch as normal.

How long until in-person instruction has to be suspended in my district due to outbreaks? #cosoteachers

#cosoteachers, assemble!

I'm about to attend an online music ed tech conference. Victor Wooten is the keynote speaker!

#cosomusic
#cosoteachers
#musictech

While it may be partially to serve political purposes, I am so appreciative that I will finally have a vaccine coming my way in the not-too-distant future.

just think of what could have happened had the Defense Production Act been invoked months ago?

#cosoteachers

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It was a simpler time.
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It's very frustrating how many how many great interactive music web apps built on Flash which no longer work, or soon will no longer work. I send these things out to my students all the time to reinforce what I'm teaching them, and keep getting more responses that they are not working.

I suspect that a lot of them already have flash disabled in Chrome even though support does not officially expire until December.

For example:

https://www.isleoftune.com

#cosomusic
#cosoteachers

After just completing my first day of live virtual teaching from home, a thought just hit me:

Snow days don't need to be a thing anymore. If school is closed due to inclement weather, we could just fall back to this.

This could be a generation of kids who grows up never knowing the absolute joy of school being canceled due to a snow day. That makes my heart weep.

#cosoteachers

Don't tell any school administrators I said this.

As a music teacher who will soon be instructing from home, I feel that this is inevitable.

NSFW language warning.
https://twitter.com/petercrouch/status/1297892853004357632

#cosomusic
#cosoteachers

Does anyone know of a way to stream/cast video and desktop audio through Google Meet that actually works?

All of the official methods (present tab, cast tab / whatever to a Meet, etc) produce distorted and choppy audio which is unusable.

This is verified on multiple systems, both hardwired and Wi-Fi, with far more than adequate memory, video hardware, and bandwidth. Colleagues have found the same thing on their end as well.

#cosotech
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#cosoteachers

My wife is on a school board meeting with her district right now. Her board is making the same call as mine, which is to go 100% online through the first quarter.

Everyone knows how difficult this is for parents, and we also know that online instruction is not equal in quality to what we can provide in person. We also know it's not that simple.

One of the board members cut right to it:

We have to choose between instruction and safety.

#CoSoTeachers

I'm watching my school district board meeting, where they are discussing the concerns with how we return to instruction.

Everyone who is speaking from the community and our board are speaking politely and intelligently. People are taking about mental health concerns among all the other issues. Some community members voiced concern for the teachers' health, which was nice to hear. The board is even examining scientific data on infection rates.

This is so incredibly refreshing.

#CoSoTeachers

FINALLY! Online comms that can handle live musical interaction! This isn't student-friendly yet, but I'm SO excited about where it could go.

"Soundjack is a realtime communication system providing any quality- and latency- relevant parameter to the user. Depending on the physical distance, network capacities, the actual network conditions and the actual routing even musical interaction or at least compromised musical interaction is possible."

https://soundjack.eu/

#cosomusic
#cosoteachers

TEACHER EVALUATION FORM FOR SPRING SEMESTER 2020

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/teacher-evaluation-form-for-spring-semester-2020

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Here is a great way to teach basic sequencing using Star Wars. I use Chrome Music Lab with my students all the time.

https://midnightmusic.com.au/2020/04/star-wars-lessons-using-the-chrome-music-lab-songmaker/

#cosomusic
#musictheory
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#cosotech
#musictech

This article hits so many nerves. It's about teachers, but could be extended to how we value any experts in their fields.

"Respect isn't merely the way you treat people—respect is the way you value their expertise."

"When we don't value expertise, we stop expecting it."

Where Are The Teachers?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnewing/2020/05/01/where-are-the-teachers/

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Parents: I feel your pain. What is happening is so far beneath the quality of education your teachers want to be providing your children with right now.

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The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning

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