TI:ME Awards 2012 Mike Kovins Teacher of the Year

Barbara Freedman is the 2012 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year

The Technology for Music Education is proud to honor music educator Barbara Freedman with the 2012 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year Award for the numerous ways she integrates music technology into music education. An avid educator, performer, author, and clinician, Barbara also shares her knowledge and resources on her website, MusicEdTech. As Barbara always promotes in her presentations, "Teach music. The technology will follow."
 
Barbara Ann Freedman has been teaching music since 1997, and teaching Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School in Connecticut since 2001. She is the Co-President of the Music Educator Technologists Association/Technology Institute for Music Educators (META/TI:ME), Connecticut Chapter, an association of music educators founded in 1989. She is an author, consultant, trainer, and frequent presenter/clinician at local, state, and national in-service conferences and events. Ms Freedman is also a survivor of the New York City Public Schools, both as a teacher and a student.

She is a professional timpanist and percussionist working regularly with the Ridgefield, Bridgeport, and Norwalk (CT) Symphonies, and has worked with other New York Tri-state orchestras, opera and ballet companies. In addition to her work with orchestras, she has performed on Broadway, in popular and folk bands, and Renaissance ensembles. Barbara is the Music Director of the Sound Beach Community Band of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of the nation's oldest community bands. She holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Music in Performance from Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music City University of New York and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music. She studied conducting at the Hartt School of Music, Westminster Choir College, and The Julliard School. She is TI:ME Level 1 certified. 

2012 TI:ME Central Regional Conference Announced!

The Technology Institute for Music Educators and the Ohio TI:ME Chapter are pleased to announce the 2012 TI:ME Central Regional Conference, to be held Feb 16 - 18, 2012 in Columbus, OH at the Columbus Convention Center.

Activities for the Ohio TI:ME Conference and the OMEA conference begin at 1:30 PM on Thursday with a Finale session, a digital recording presentation with PreSonus and a Concert of electronic music composed and performed by students from Lebanon HS. Other sessions on Thursday include a SMART Board presentation, Live Looping, Composing and Recording for Elementary Students, and ProTools in Education. If that doesn't get your electrons charged up, you can hang out in the SoundTree sponsored PlayRoom, and that's just Thursday!

Friday sessions begin at 8:00 and conclude at 5:00. More sessions on Saturday morning with your last chance to visit the PlayRoom, check out a Finale session, or get in on the PreSonus action concluding at 1:30.

The keynote speaker will be TI:ME Executive Director, Mike Lawson, from Nashville, TN. Lawson has served as the executive director of TI:ME since March, 2011, but has been an active TI:ME and advisory board member since 1997. He has previously served on TI:ME's publications committee, ocassionally managing publisher/author acquistion relations with TI:ME for publishing houses during his primary career in the music publications industry.