by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org

Conversation in the past few Idea Exchanges has wandered to how music teachers are using the iPad in their teaching.  I thought it would be useful to share what iPad apps I use on a daily basis. Hopefully people will also contribute what they use (and how they use it) in the comments section below.

Every time I tell myself "there can't possibly be another application I haven't heard about," somebody inevitably shows me something useful that I missed. Below are the apps that I find myself using the most. All apps are free. Post the apps you find best for music teaching in the comments section below.

	App	Teaching Situation	Use
	Camera	Individual Instruction	Both video and stills during  lessons
	Evernote	Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction	Partnerships: I use this to walk around with my lesson plans. Individual lessons, I use it like an electronic piece of paper.(more on that later)
	Pro Metronome	Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction	You can easily change the accent pattern with this app
	MetroTimer	Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction	Has a timer built in, so you can time technique exercises
	Clock	Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction	Stopwatch and timer feature. For timing group activities or timing technique exercises in lessons
	n-Track Tuner	Community Partnerships	Tuning guitars, shows spectrum and exact frequency
	Timbre		Type in a zip code and it displays all live music for that area
	GoodNotes	Individual Instruction	Handwriting app with staff paper, zooms in which is helpful and has a wrist guard
	30/30	Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction	Timer app. Allows you to make a timed task list. Good for modeling practice behavior in lessons and keeping group work on task