I am currently taking a ten-week continuing education class at Northwestern University on Ludwig van Beethoven. The instructor is Dr. Drew Davies, a professor at the Beinen School of Music at Northwestern University. Undeniably, he is considered the most celebrated composer of all time. It only makes sense that we infuse Beethoven’s concepts in
I had the pleasure of being apart of the K12 Online Conference, which our presentation is going live today. Carol Vrotny, who teaches PreK-8 Music at Grass Lake School in Antioch, Illinois and I presented “For Those Who Want To Rock, Don’t Suppose, Compose!” We discuss how to get started in technology with flip cameras
I am really excited about this the “Composer Collaborative,” with Brenda Muench. She teaches music kindergarten through third grade, and is a technology intergrater for her district. We always wanted to collaborate, and with this project, it has gone farther than either one of us even imagined. She had all her students listen to podcasts
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
