Fall MECA Online Courses
All Fall MECA online courses
are generally held from
Sept. 21 through Dec. 13, 2020,
unless specified.
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Registration for
all online courses
closes at 11:59 p.m. CST
on Sept. 13, 2020
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Questions?
Visit our MECA FAQs page.
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the Add/Drop Form.
For other MECA-related questions,
contact us at meca@vandercook.edu
or 312.788.1139
Using Soundtrap in the
Music Classroom
ONLINE
Cohort 1: September 21–October 13, 2020
Cohort 2: October 16–November 15, 2020
The online music production app Soundtrap is a powerful yet fun and easy-to-use music creation tool, and provides students with endless creative music-making possibilities. From beat-making to podcasting to songwriting, this course will provide strategies and lesson ideas to encourage all students, regardless of their musical knowledge, to become active creators. This course is suitable for music teachers at all levels, and free access to Soundtrap EDU will be provided during the course.
Instructor: Stefani Langol
Stefani Langol is a music educator, clinician, author and education technology consultant. She is an associate professor of music education at Berklee College of Music and also serves as the technology coordinator for the music education department. In addition, Langol is an adjunct assistant professor at the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she teaches music technology classes for the Master of Music Education degree program.
Langol is a certified instructor for the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) and offers graduate credit and TI:ME national certification courses at numerous sites throughout the Northeast. In addition, Langol served as editor-in-chief of the TI:MEs newsletter from 1997-2004 and the technology editor for the Massachusetts Music Educators Journal from 2004-2012. For over 20 years, Langol has designed and delivered technology training to K-12 and higher education music educators, and has been a featured presenter at numerous state, national and international music educator conferences in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, Rhode Island, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Texas, Illinois, Toronto and Nelson (Canada).
Langol is a co-author of the Alfred Music Tech Series, which includes Playing Keyboard, Music Production and MIDI Sequencing; and Composing with Notation Software as well as the accompanying Teacher’s Guide: Book 1. In addition, she has published several articles on music technology in the Music Educators Journal, Music Education Technology Magazine, Music and Computers, Artists House, and the Massachusetts Music Educators Journal.
Course Details
Using Soundtrap in
the Music Classroom
Instructor
Stefani Langol
Dates
Cohort 1: Sept. 21–Oct. 15
Code TBD - No Credit
Code TBD - 1 Graduate Credit
Cohort 2: Oct. 16–Nov. 15
Code TBD - No Credit
Code TBD - 1 Graduate Credit
Tuition
No Credit (certification only)
$199, due in full with registration
1 Graduate Credit
(with certification)
$355, due in full with registration
Online Chat Sessions
TBD
Prerequisites
None
Required Text(s)
None
Software/Hardware Requirements
Access to a Chromebook or any computer connected to the internet with adequate Wifi access. IPads are not recommended for this course.
MECA Online Course Details
VanderCook Online is powered by Schoology (www.schoology.com). Through this learning management system, you'll be able to interact directly with your instructor, students in your classes, and members of the greater VanderCook Online community.
Fall 2020 MECA courses officially begin on Monday, Sept. 21. Soon after you register, you'll be added as a new Schoology user. Be on the lookout for an email from Schoology with log-in instructions. Once you are given credentials, simply visit www.online.vandercook.edu to login. On the morning of Sept. 21, you'll have access to your classroom and course material.
Some courses have specific online chat meeting times (please see course descriptions), while others have a flexible meeting schedule. You can expect all courses to meet together in a live online chat. If a live meeting time doesn’t work, you can work with your instructor to make other arrangements.
You’ll have the opportunity to work at your own pace each week while completing assignments and posting responses to discussion questions. You’ll constantly be interacting with your instructor and classmates online, and working through new material each week. We know how crazy school schedules can get, so our instructors try to make everything as flexible as possible!
Online grades will be reported by mid-October. If you are in need of a transcript please visit the online transcript request page. If you are in need a quick turn around time for your transcript please submit the transcript request to the registrar prior to the end of your course(s).