#10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne

Robby’s Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include: Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos The importance of developing audiation in student musicians The strengths of binary performance rubrics Art vs. Craft Understanding relational databases Data-driven music teaching (the good kind) Lots more music teaching philosophy Show Notes: Final Cut Pro X Logic Pro X Screenflow LumaFusion Logic and Final Cut 90 day free trial Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education ($200) Alfred 4 for Mac Music Ed Tech Talk #9 - Automate All The Things! With Craig McClellan David MacDonald | Composer Music Ed Tech Talk #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald IMSLP IMSLP Alfred Search 5esrd Alfred Search J. W. Pepper Bento FileMaker Book - Robert Duke | Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction Tonal Energy Tuner App Edwin E. Gordon - Musical Aptitude Profile Book - Arnold Jacobs | Wind and Song Lynda Course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training Lynda Course: Learning FileMaker 17 Lynda Course: FileMaker Tips, Tricks, and Techniques AirTable Charms Noteflight Announcement about SoundCheck Integration SmartMusic MusicFirst FileMaker 19 Holds Promise for My Music Teaching Workflow | Robbyburns.com New York Philharmonic - Digital Archives NKoda - An ensemble of sheet music, scores and parts App of the Week:  Robby - Discord Ben - IDAGIO Album of the Week: Robby - Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground Ben - Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog Ben - EMMS Music | HoCoYo Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database: Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left)     Image of Performance Packets: