Online Courses
All online Summer MECA
courses begin on June 8 and
conclude on July 31, 2020.
Registration for all
online courses closes at
12:00 noon CST on
May 29, 2020.
Early bird special! Register
for any online course by
April 17 and save $50!
Discount applies to 3-credit courses
only. Tuition must be paid in full at
the time of registration for the
discount to apply.
All online MECA courses
conclude on May 3, 2020.
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or 312.788.1139.
Web Design for Your School Music Program: Connecting to Your Community
This course explores a wide spectrum of free and inexpensive online tools that will help you create an effective and attractive website that can highlight your music program’s curriculum, provide lesson resources for students, share school performances and important information for parents, and much, much more!
Using a template-based website creation tool called Weebly, participants will learn the ins and outs of adding text, images, audio and video to design and customize webpages. No coding knowledge necessary! In addition, easy-to-use online tools for creating and editing images, a blog, an audio podcast, a video screencast, and embedding G-Suite documents, YouTube videos, and Spotify playlists will be explored. This course is suitable for all teachers and can be completed using a desktop/laptop running any operating system, or a Chromebook.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Design a website for their school music program using Weebly
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Use online image editing tools to create and customize images and photographs
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Use Bandlab to create an audio podcast
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Use Screencast-o-matic to create a video tutorial
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Create and embed Google Docs, Forms & Slides
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Upload and Embed YouTube videos/playlists
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Create and embed a Spotify Playlist
Stefani Langol is a music educator, clinician, author and education technology consultant. She is 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 masters of music education 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 as 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, including New York, Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, Rhode Island, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Texas, Illinois and Toronto.
Langol is a co-author of the Alfred Music Tech Series, which includes Playing Keyboard, Music Production and MIDI Sequencing, Composing with Notation Software, and the accompanying Teacher’s Guide: Book 1. In addition, she has published several articles on music technology that have appeared in the Music Educators Journal, Music Education Technology Magazine, Music and Computers, Artists House, and Massachusetts Music Educators Journal.
SUMMER 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.
The summer online term officially begins on Monday, June 10. The week prior to June 10, you'll be added as a new Schoology user. Be on the lookout for an email from noreply@schoology.com or wfong@vandercook.edu with log-in instructions. Once you are given credentials, simply visit www.online.vandercook.edu to login. On the morning of June 10, 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 summer schedules can get, so our instructors try to make everything as flexible as possible!
Course Details
Instructor: Stefani Langol
3 Graduate Credits
Tuition: $1,020, due in full with registration
Course Code: 7629
Online
Prerequisites:
None
Chat Sessions:
No chat sessions required.
Requirements:
Access to a Mac, PC or Chromebook, connected to the Internet.
Basic computer skills are required such as setting up accounts & usernames/passwords, basic typing skills, uploading/downloading files, and familiarity using the Internet.
Required Materials:
Reading materials will be provided online.
SUMMER 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.
The summer online term officially begins on Monday, June 10. The week prior to June 10, you'll be added as a new Schoology user. Be on the lookout for an email from noreply@schoology.com or wfong@vandercook.edu with log-in instructions. Once you are given credentials, simply visit www.online.vandercook.edu to login. On the morning of June 10, 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 summer schedules can get, so our instructors try to make everything as flexible as possible!