Like many Microsoft products, Bookings is complicated, but I’ve worked out a step-by-step guide for other professors to follow.
Category: pedagogy
How to get the best-quality audio to combine with your voice when creating video or video chatting
DON’T play a recording over external speakers, which the microphone will then pick up and put back into your video—this will distort the audio significantly.
Using scheduling software for better boundaries in office hours
I started using scheduling software to avoid a lot of the back-and-forth of scheduling.
Modular music theory
We are dedicating an entire course to pop and jazz music, thoroughly integrating theory and performance, and de-sequencing the curriculum.
Planning for 2018–2019
My ’18-’19 goals: Making course journals, optimizing student meetings, and starting a singing club!
Goals for Summer 2018
I’m going to write and work on my courses, but I’m going to prioritize relaxing also.
First year on the job
Three life lessons I’ve learned in my first year in a tenure-track job.
What happens in the writing center
Why are students more willing to vent to their drop-in tutor than to ask their profs for help?
Ear Training fantasies
One of my longest-standing research interests is in ear training pedagogy. Conventional wisdom says that the point of ear training class is not to train students’ ears in the classroom, exactly—everyone realizes that the majority of work must be done outside of class (though it’s hard to convince students that this is a good use of… Continue reading Ear Training fantasies