I remember May Day as a child. At school I would make paper flowers and place them in a paper basket. On my way home from school I would find a house where an elderly person lived, place the basket on the doorknob, ring the bell and step away from the door. Once the person
There is not a day that goes by that I either I get over twitter/plurk teachers looking for royalty-free music or if I have any original music for others to use. Since I teach fourth through eighth grade music and all my students create and compose I am a bit perplexed. My students compose so
I have presented this topic many times and even written an article about it. GarageBand is part of iLife program on the Mac (Yes, only Apple) It seems odd that I have been teaching GarageBand for eight years and still people don’t really know how to compose using this program, or some of the compositions
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.
