Adventures of A Music Educator: Recent Episodes
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Hello! I'm Cherylyn and I'm a music teacher from Malaysia. I love sharing my experiences in teaching and other stuff like technology, gardening, movies. Tune in to listen to my learning journeys, funny stories and teaching tricks!
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Music learning is mainly provided as an enrichment programme in Malaysia. What is known as music academies or schools elsewhere is known as music centres here in Malaysia. Since the pandemic, the music teaching business is badly impacted and the industry is going through some growing pains as business owners accept, adapt and adopt new ways of running the business. In this video podcast episode, I'm joined by Amanda Ong, the owner of Fusion Music Studio Puchong and a member of my online learning community, Music Teacher Meets Technology. Amanda shared some of the progressive decisions she made for her studio. Tune in to find out more!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Guest intro and education background
04:45 How Amanda started her own music centre
10:15 The norms of managing the business (i.e. staffing)
12:32 A brief explanation of the Malaysian music teaching business
13:20 The integrity of music teachers and how Amanda overcome staffing problems
14:50 The service offered to parents and students
17:55 Other services provided by music centres
19:40 Teachers as entrepreneurs
21:40 Teacher branding
24:56 How Amanda started to see the importance of branding
26:26 Cher's aspiration & niche in her own career
29:05 Don't focus on competition and just move forward
31:31 Amanda's success stories and trusting staff
33:47 The initial difficulties
36:27 Shared experience but different coping mechanisms
39:52 How Amanda get her teachers to ease into the new norm
42:40 Training tech to senior teachers
43:55 Zoom fatigue
44:34 Handling large class size online, class management and handling lesson objectives
48:10 Preparing materials for online lessons
49:30 Teaching older students
52:44 Feedback from teachers, parents & students
54:30 Online toddler music class
56:12 Amanda's game plan -"Start local, go global" and advertising the school's programme
59:12 Social media marketing
01:01:26 Mindset reset
01:02:47 Amanda's hope for the industry
01:07:01 How you can contact Amanda [Check podcast show notes]
Amanda Ong, Fusion Music Studio Puchong
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The pandemic has affected education worldwide and scholarly pursuits in music research is not left out. In this video podcast, I'm joined by Lee Voon Foong to discuss about some of the challenges and changes in the field of music research during this trying times. Is going virtual the only research method now? We also discussed a little about how the pandemic has affected music teaching and the learning attitudes of music teachers.
Timestamps
00:00 Host intro
00:35 Guest intro
07:55 Topic intro
09:07 Brief overview of Voon Foong's research
11:20 Type of research he is doing
14:14 Finding his research participants
15:19 Getting information from music teachers
17:28 Challenges during the pandemic
21:15 The new norm of research
24:00 Using survey in research
25:34 Is the pandemic discouraging qualitative research?
27:46 Significance of research observation
29:51 Challenges of experimental research
31:07 Opportunities in research now
32:03 Challenges in virtual learning - Latency, teacher experience in virtual class
33:39 Self-efficacy of music teachers in teaching and learning
37:50 The attitudes of music teachers towards the pandemic
40:05 The difficulties of teaching wind instruments virtually and how it affects audio suppression in video calls
42:56 Closing thoughts by Voon Foong
46:25 Phd????
47:55 Connecting with Voon Foong
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This episode is about my journey on Youtube Algorithm, SETO tools and developing video editing skills. I shared about my experience revamping my Youtube channel and how I learned some tricks from SEO tools.
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Here is a solution I shared for teaching drawing in Google Meets.
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An update and continuation of my journey in differentiating in the virtual music classroom. In this episode, I share how video tutorials can be helpful during a live virtual lesson.
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It's tricky navigating tech tools in the virtual classroom. What one student has, the other may not. In this episode, I share my experience teaching my secondary students on creating video collage with an app available on the mainstream platforms, Android and iOS.
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A mini sharing about my experience using the transcription tool in Soundtrap. Have you used it before? Let me know at cherthemusic@gmail.com
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It is Teacher Appreciation Month! In this episode, I share my thoughts about the inspiring teachers and mentors in my life and how they influenced my growth as a teacher.
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Just a very quick update on what's happening and I finally appear on camera for this podcast. Frazzled me is just real life.
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Have you ever felt your week passing by in a blink of an eye? That's how I felt in the past two weeks. In this episode, I share some new experiences I got from school this week [funny story spoiler] and discovering my new superpower while doing teacher training in Google Slides.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Crazy week!
01:00 Funny story about my students
02:50 Hitting my daily walking goals
04:40 Discovering my superpower while conducting Google Slides training
06:50 Remote Mouse app for presentation [https://youtu.be/wCCdp3jPoNk]
08:15 Adjusting to new routines 08:45 Outro
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I've been using Loom for awhile now after discovering and exploring it for the past two months and I think it's a really cool piece of tech for work and lessons.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 New discovery - Loom
01:19 Using Loom to submit classwork
02:05 Using it for communicating with others
03:09 Features of Loom
03:40 Loom on Google Chrome as an extension
06:15 Pricing of Loom
07:50 Loom on mobile device
08:50 Conclusion
09:58 Outro
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Just like music, time does not stop. It does not wait. In this episode, I shared about an awesome episode I heard from Top Cast and a new thing I learned from it: keystone habits.
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I find solutions for my private studio and continue to maintain the interest of my students. In this episode, I share about how important it is to go beyond method books for piano teaching and go the extra mile to create or find supplements to lessons.
Below are useful links I shared about in this podcast episode.
My TpT store
Resources I recommend for piano teaching:
Fishing for Pairs
Hoppy Frog
Musical Dominoes
Musical Instruments and Country Origin Flashcards
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You lose nothing by trying something new.
Fundamentals of Digital Marketing by Google: https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/course/digital-marketing
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I started this chapter of my life two years ago and now it has (temporarily) comes to end as I pursue other priorities in life. In this episode, I share my experiences working at a local music studio.
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The whole world recently observed the first anniversary of the pandemic lockdown. My friends and I reflected on this during an online gathering. In this episode, I share about how the pandemic affected my career and the experiences it gave me.
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Paul Potts of Britain's Got Talent fame in 2007 has his own bio pic now and you can stream to watch on Netflix. In this episode, I share my thoughts of this movie production and the important lesson I learned from the story.
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If you have not kick up a storm before, my little adventure might interest you! Google Slides was buggy near mid-March and boy, don't mess with teachers during the pandemic! In this episode, I share how I connected with educators around the world to solve this problem and get Google's attention!
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My butt must have been itching to do it for awhile now but I have finally started it! In this episode, i share how I came across Az Samad, Anchor.fm and Bobby Rose. It's my wish to collab with other Malaysian music educators.
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School exams are not spared from being different during the pandemic. In this episode, I share my first time experience invigilating the school exams VIRTUALLY. Yep, you got it! Tune in to listen to my story.
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While I'm still figuring out how I want this podcast to work, I decide to try creating a Youtube video version. In this episode, I share how I research on creating audio visualizers with my video editing software.
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I shared about my love for Penang Island, my experience working at an IB school, my transition from working to studying my Masters and a bit about my private piano teaching.
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Follow and subscribe to Cherthemusic's Podcast: Adventures of A Music Teacher. Cherylyn is a music teacher from Malaysia. She teaches the music classroom and private piano studio. She has many interests like movies and technology. Tune in to look for teaching inspiration or get insights into a music teacher's life.
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