Music and Technology Educator & Consultant
Greater New York City Area
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- President at Music Educator Technologist's Accociation (META)
- Teacher of Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School
- Past
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- Speaker/Presenter at MENC Technology Academy 09
- Speaker/Presenter at CMEA
- Contributing Author at SoundTree
- Speaker/Presenter at PodCamp NYC 2.0
- Teacher/Choral Director at Forest Hills High School, NYC
- Education
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- New School University
- City University of New York-Brooklyn College
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Barbara Freedman’s Summary
* Teacher of Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School in CT
* President of the Music Educator Technologists Association (META)
* Consultant to schools and districts on implementing music technology in the general music classroom
* Adult Educator of music technology and software
* Clinician/Presenter at conferences and conventions
* Timpanist and Percussionist working regularly with the Ridgefield, Bridgeport and Norwalk Symphonies and has worked with other Tri-state orchestras, opera and ballet companies
* Music Director of the Sound Beach Community Band, Greenwich, CT’s and one of the nation’s oldest community bands
Barbara Freedman’s Specialties:
Curriculum development, Web 2.0, Music 2.0, music industry, Logic, GarageBand,
Barbara Freedman’s Experience
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President
Music Educator Technologist's Accociation (META)
(Music industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
An association of music teachers teaching with technology offering advice, consulting and support since 1989.
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Teacher of Electronic Music & Audio Engineering
Greenwich High School
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
September 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)
Basically, I teach kids about music through composition and they use MIDI keyboards interfaced with computers. We us GarageBand and Logic Studio in a classroom with 25 iMac G5s. The name Electronic Music is kept to honor the original class that began in 1968 and offered continually since. We offer four levels of Electronic Music for students with different music backgrounds. My Intro class is the most requested single class a building with 2800 students with about 350 requests every year.
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Speaker/Presenter
MENC Technology Academy 09
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
June 2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
OPENING PLENARY: Software for Music Creation
From Sibelius to GarageBand, today’s leading music creation programs blur the line between performance, composition, recording, and notation. This panel discusses how these programs work and suggests ways to employ them in the music classroom.
Moderator: Pete Jutras, assistant professor of piano, University of Georgia and editor of Clavier Companion
Panelists: Amy Burns, music teacher, Far Hills Country Day School, Far Hills, NJ; Estelle Roth, instrumental music teacher, Patrick Henry Elementary School, Arlington, VA; Barbara Freedman, electronic music and audio engineering teacher, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT -
Speaker/Presenter
CMEA
(Music industry)
April 2009 — April 2009 (1 month)
Presented workshop: Digital Media In & Out of the Classroom
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Contributing Author
SoundTree
(Music industry)
July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)
Contributing author to SoundTree Keyboard Lab Curriculum
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Speaker/Presenter
PodCamp NYC 2.0
(E-Learning industry)
April 2008 — April 2008 (1 month)
Cashing in on Digital Distribution for Public Schools or "The High Tech Bake Sale"
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Teacher/Choral Director
Forest Hills High School, NYC
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
September 1997 — June 2001 (3 years 10 months)
Barbara Freedman’s Education
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New School University
Diploma , Mannes College: Performance , 1990 — 1992
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City University of New York-Brooklyn College
BS & MM , Music Performance , 1982 — 1990
Additional Information
Barbara Freedman’s Websites:
Barbara Freedman’s Interests:
music, technology, education, percussion, performance, recording, audio engineering,
Barbara Freedman’s Groups:
META, CMEA, TI:ME, PASIC, AFofM, NEA, Sound Beach Community Band
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Music Technology Education -
Greenwich High School Electronic Music
Barbara Freedman’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- expertise requests
- getting back in touch
