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
Today was our first day skyping with our Collaborative Composer Project with Mrs. Muench’s third grade classes in Gilman, Illinois. It was so electric in the classroom. The fifth grade classes exchanged the name of their composer and composition. Now we are ready to start our multi-media projects, which we will start the next music
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.
