Meet The "Dynamic Duo"

Meet The "Dynamic Duo"
John Kuzmich, Jr. Ph.D. & Paul Lukasiewicz

Friday, August 2, 2013

Customized Interactive Collaboration Instructonal Workshop

Interactive collaboration connectivity is an essential component of all of our music technology workshops.    Paul and John offer two modes for on-line Cloud collaboration for quick feedback and assessments.
  • WordPress with a designated username and password secure link at:
     http://jkuzmich@wordpress.com
  • Goggle Docs with designated melody and Cloud applications: with word processing, spreadsheet and PowerPoint clones.
Daily lesson plan assignments can be uploaded here daily.  This page is password protected for privacy.  By the end of the week, this page will be invaluable.

Note:  this web posting will also be offered at GoogleDocs to give students a better perspective of which interactive Cloud tool is more valuable.  GoogleDocs can be assessed by going to http://drive.google.com and signing in with designated user name. 

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Meet The "Dynamic Duo"


2013/2014 Summer Music Tech Workshops at Truly Affordable Prices With A "Dynamic Duo" of Two TI:ME Certified Teachers: John Kuzmich, Jr., Ph.D. & Paul Lukasiewicz: World-Wide!
  • Meet John Kuzmich, Jr. (click here)
  • Meet Paul Lukasiewicz  (click here)
Enroll in your own customized Music Technology Course of Study or select from 4+ scheduled 2013 Summer Music Technology Workshops including four TI:ME Workshops with discount sliding scale fees and world-wide interactive videoconferencing options since 2006. Two heads are better than one featuring two TI:ME Institutional Instructors with HD (high definition) videoconferencing quality. See examples published at BandDirector.Com magazine: click here and here for representative samples of 54 minutes each.

In addition, John is a clinician for Alfred Publishing, Superscope Technologies and Mastering Music among other companies.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

On-Lilne Interactive Music Tech Workshops!

Looking for music technology workshops at truly affordable fees with choices of on-line interactivw world-wide instruction or on location in Denver, Colorado.
  • For synchronous, interactive Videoconferencing options with HD quality since 2006, click herehttp://www.kuzmich.com/FAQ.html.
  • For truly affordable options with a revolutionary unique discounted sliding honorarium fee scale, click here.
On-Line 2013 Summer Workshop Calendars
 July:

August
          TI:ME E-Blast: click here

2013-2014 Music Technology Courseware:
Four Different Learning Tracks

Track 1: TI:ME Workshop Course Descriptions for Level 1 and Level 2

Course Title 1: TI:ME 1A Music Technology: Electronic Instruments, MIDI Sequencing
Dates: July 8-12 ( 5 days), 8:00am - 4:00pm (need one more enrollee for 1/2 price discount -see Discount Sliding Scale Fees!)
Course Title 2: TI:ME 1B Basic Skills: Software, Communications & Digital Media
Dates: July 15-19 (5 days), 8:00am - 4:00pm (need one more enrollee for 1/2 price discount -see Discount Sliding Scale Fees!)
Course Title 3: TI:ME 2B Interactive Internet Authoring
Dates: July 22-26(5 days), 8:00am - 4:00pm (need one more enrollee for 1/2 price discount -see Discount Sliding Scale Fees!)
Course Title 4: TI:ME 2C Integrating Technology into the Music Curriculum
Dates: July 29-August 2 (5 days) 8:00am - 4:00pm (need one more enrollee for 1/2 price discount - see Discount Sliding Scale Fees!)

Track 2: 2014 Popular Non-TI:ME Workshops With No Graduate Credit

June 30-July 3: Automatic Play-Along Options SmartMusic, BAMtracks, Music + One, Elevation and Band-In-A-Box Mastery: Artificial Intelligence and others.

Track 3: 2013 & 2014 Popular Non-TI:ME Workshops With No Graduate Credit

TBA: Mastering Music and its courseware, click here or Automatic Generating Play-Along options
TBA: Sibelius: Entry-Intermediate Levels or Finale: Entry-Intermediate Levels

Track 4: Study Any Time on Your Schedule: Both TI:ME & Non-TI:ME Workshops

Unique Instructional Resources for Music Educators!

Looking for ideas to jump-start your teaching?  Below are 80+ articles covering a myriad of topics based on solutions to improving your instruction.  All topics and subsequent articles can be accessed at: http://www.kuzmich.com/bibliography.html

Creative Solutions for Music Educators!

Are you in need of a "positive charge" with your music teaching with regards to instrumental, choral and general music?

If so, you are in the right place.  John Kuzmich, Jr. Ph.D is a veteran music educator, jazz educator and music technologist equally competent on all the woodwind and brass instruments.   Paul Lukasiewicz is a journeymen music teacher and church music director.  Together, they are uniquely creative and dynamic both in the classroom and beyond!

For example:  one of John’s unique talents is to personally place his students in colleges with scholarships.  This past year, John’s students earned full-tuition scholarships at the University of Denver, University of Colorado and University of Northern Colorado along with smaller music scholarships to Colorado State University at Pueblo, Adams State College, Western State College and Colorado Mesa University. And all of this was accomplished while he was teaching at Shandong University in Jinan, China through the "magic" of videoconferencing with GoToMeeting.

Paul is a problem-solver of the first-order who can analyze music technology challenges from hardware to software solutions in the areas of interactive web authoring to notation and music production, computter-assister instruction and beyond.

Don't hesitate to contact John and Paul for music technology solutions with your instructional challenges in an ever-changing profession.  Their expertise and background are varied ranging from 55 years in the classroom in the public school classrooms as a band director for 25 years, 12 years as a music supervisor, a senior editor of three national music educator journals (Jazz Educators Journal, American Suzuki Journal and The Instrumentalist) for nearly 20 years and as a featured columnist for most music education journals with over 600 articles published since 1973.  And most recently is hosting on-line videoconferencing interviews with noted music educators and authors covering the music education field. For samples, click here and here.

John and Paul are well aware of the needs of aspiring musicians and their classroom teachers. John's music technology column appears regularly in School Band and Orchestra magazine with more than 200+ feature articles published on-line and directly linked to the magazines from www.kuzmich.com/articles.html since 1998.   In addition, John is also hosting a monthly music technology column for www.banddirector.com  and for postings, click here

In addition, John and Paul are two of only 35 TI:ME (Technology Institute for Music Educators) nationally certified institutional instructors to serve as a training instructor throughout the country. As a clinician, Dr. Kuzmich frequently participates in workshops throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America. This past school year, he guest presented in Hawaii, Switzerland, and Poland besides recently retiring as a public school educator for the past 43 years.  Most recently, he taught at Shandong University in Jinan, China for the 2012-2013 school year.

2012 summer's clinics are posted here.   For more info, visit John's clinician web site at:  www.kuzmich.com/clinics.html.  In 2012, John has presented clinics at:

  1. 2012 Jazz Educators//TI:ME National Conferences, January 6, 2012 in Louisville, Kentucky
  2. Brigham Young University, February 17, 2012 in Provo, Utah
  3. Missouri Bandmasters Association, June 27, 2012 in Lake-of-the-Ozarks, Missouri
  4. Donetsk Prokofiev National Academy of Music, May 10, 2012 in Donetsk, Ukraine
  5. Bednarska Street School, May 14, 2012 in Warsaw, Poland
  6. 2012 Family History Expo Conferences in St. George, Utah on February 25, 2012 and Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 2, 2012.
Again, don't hesitate to contact John and Paul for creative solutions for your instructional needs.  No charge for brain-storming!