I am driven by purpose. Your purpose is what drives your creative process. So I have created two new purposeful driven websites/blogs. They are mostly for me to push myself to create more and share my creations. The new www.carolbroos.com website is in the spirit of creation and composition. It is not a blog, but
This was a very exciting assignment for me, since am I former music teacher. I am also doing the 366 project (taking a picture every day) AND the once a month composition project. So, some of the pictures I took in January were the inspiration for the song “January.” The biggest battle was to figure
I did not compose in high school and only composed ONE song in college. The emphasis was on playing or singing the compositions/songs with a director or conductor. The only creativity was the practice order of the director, no creativity on my part, it really wasn’t discussed. If you wanted to be creative, learn jazz.
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.
