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In the 4th episode of MusTech.Net podcast, special guest, Ian Robin -the managing director of the SKYPE Business end, joins us for an in-depth discussion about how SKYPE is being used in the education community. 

Find out how educators, music educators, and language educators are using Skype in their classrooms in this one-of-a-kind interview with a world renown Skype authority. 

Original Air Date: 10/9/2008
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Website: http://mustech.net
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Podcasters: Dr. Joseph M. Pisano, Mr. Darren J. Morton
Special Guest: Ian Robin -Skype Business Division Director

Episode 13’s Show:

* Skype
*Distance Learning
*Music Education and Skype
*ISDN
*Broadband for VOIP
*Using Skype in the Concert Setting
*Using Skype for music lessons
*Using Skype for language needs
*Using Skype, Skype, and the Hype about Skype!

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Related Links:

MusTech.Net
Composing Like Mad
Skype.com
London
Vertical Markets
Skype and Music Concerts
Peer to Peer P2P
Language Exchanges
Dr. Andrew Boysen
Skype APIs
EEE PC
ISDN
Broadband Speed Test

Music provided by Jason Davis:
Jason Davis Music

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Enhanced Podcast- SKYPE for Education and Music Performance -Enhanced Podcast E14

In the 4th episode of MusTech.Net podcast, special guest, Ian Robin -the managing director of the SKYPE Business end, joins us for an in-depth discussion about how SKYPE is being used in the education community. 

Find out how educators, music educators, and language educators are using Skype in their classrooms in this one-of-a-kind interview with a world renown Skype authority. 

Original Air Date: 10/9/2008

Website: http://mustech.net
Website: http://mustech.podomatic.com

DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST NOW FOR THE ENHANCED PODCAST!

Podcasters: Dr. Joseph M. Pisano, Mr. Darren J. Morton
Special Guest: Ian Robin -Skype Business Division Director

Episode 13’s Show:

* Skype
*Distance Learning
*Music Education and Skype
*Using Skype in the Concert Setting
*ISDN
*Broadband for VOIP
*Skype and Skype and the Hype about Skype!

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Related Links:

MusTech.Net
Composing Like Mad
Skype.com
London
Vertical Markets
Skype and Music Concerts
Peer to Peer P2P
Language Exchanges
Dr. Andrew Boysen
Skype APIs
EEE PC
ISDN
Broadband Speed Test

Music provided by Jason Davis:
Jason Davis Music

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MUSicTECHnology.net

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Here is an article/post for all of the WordPress users that utilize the open-source software found at WordPress.org.  These particular plugins are directly related to music and particularly useful for musicians, whether players, composers, or educators.

The following is a list of current, useful, and hand-picked plugins that I’ve worked with at some point that allow for musicians to begin using their WordPress sites better, more efficiently, and more importantly- what they are looking for in a music specific WordPress Site (see my article about WordPress as a Music CMS):

Performers:

GigPress- A great plugin that allows musicians to let folks know about their upcoming concert schedules, playing venues, and even ticketing information.   I use this on my site, MusTech.netin the sidebar.  Gigpress is an easy way for bands to list and manage tour dates on their WordPress-powered website.

Gig Calender- This plugin is geared toward bands and musicians to manage and display a calendar of their gigs within WordPress. It’s meant to be as easy as possible for both the musician and the fan. It even manages venue data complete with mapping and ticket links.

Events Calendar- Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. The plugin has an easy to use admin section that displays a big readable calendar and lets you add and delete events. The plugin is widget ready so you can easily add a small calendar to the main sidebar with the ability to roll over the highlighted event day to see a brief description of the event or click the day to get a full description of the event without ever leaving your current page. If you are not using a widget ready theme, you can still have the calendar on your sidebar. 

Organizing Music:

Discography- Musicians need a way to easily organize information about their music. This plugin exists to do just that. It lets you publish a list of albums and auto-generates a WordPress page for each song, so that fans can comment, save links to your songs and share them with friends.

Podcasting:

PodPress- PodPress adds tons of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.  This is what almost all users use to integrate Podcasting into WordPress sites.  A very useful alternative to PodPress is:

Podcasting-  Created for the Google Summer of Code 2007, Podcasting brings complete podcasting support to WordPress. Taking advantage of the latest and greatest in WordPress 2.5, WordPress podcasting has never been so easy.

Media Players:

Inline Mp3 Player- Inline mp3 player replacing any link directly to a mp3 file, such as ‘http://yoursite.com/musicfile.mp3′ into a special link. Clicking it will turn the link into a small media player with a html slider interface. It works simple, click the link the music starts playing.

Embedded Video- The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and integrated as well. Additionally a corresponding link to the video on the particular video portal page or a download link to the local file can be generated automatically, if demanded.

Music Notation:

ScoreRenderer- A WordPress plugin that renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.

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What are your favorite music education podcasts? Ones that relate to music education, music technology, or music performance? Here’s a short list of mine for starters:

1. MusTech.Net’s (Dr. J. Pisano’s and D. Morton’s) Podcast
   http://mustech.podomatic.com
2. James Frankel’s Podcast
   http://fams.podomatic.com
3. Scott Watson’s Podcast
   http://whatmusicmeans.mypodcast.com/
4. Larra Marra’s Podcast
   Click Here For it!
5. Prof. Kieth Mason’s Podcast
   http://musictechforme.com

What are yours?