Music Within Me Podcasts

Valerie Rheude, Director of Bands for Central Columbia School District, Bloomsburg PA, joins me to discuss her program, why she decided it was time for a change and how the viaAcademies program filled that need. Central Columbia is now in their second year of work with viaAcademies. If you're a band director looking for ways to help your students reach program goals, join us now for the next 20 minutes to learn about our partnership.

Visit viaAcadmies online to watch demos of our courses and learn more about our online instrumental and general music programs. www.MakeMusicClick.com

How can school music programs benefit from integrating online music courses? Paying attention to program goals is the key. What are your program goals? Do you want to increase enrollments? Do you want to provide tools to build personal practice skills? In this episode, Mark Burke from viaAcademies discusses evidence that music is an important part of student's lives. This discussion is designed to help teachers and school officials think about the many benefits of providing online music curriculum for their students.

Student performance of Take Five.

Join Mark T. Burke, CEO of viaAcademies in his conversation with Brian Dempsey, VLINC Administrator from the Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19 in Pennsylvania. The VLINC program allows students to stay within their home school districts yet enroll in innovative online courses to meet their needs. For the 2010-2011 school year, students can enroll in viaAcademies Music curriculum through the VLINC program. Courses will include our beginning instrumental music courses for Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn and Mallet Percussion. Students needing a general music course may enroll in the viaAcademies "Exploring Music through GarageBand" (MAC computers) or "Exploring Music through MixCraft" (PC Computers).VLINC and viaAcademies working together means students now have a way to get the music education they desire through the full services of our two organizations.

Join Mark T. Burke, CEO of viaAcademies in his conversation with Jerry Christy and Lydia Comerford from the BLaST Intermediate Unit 17, Williamsport, PA. At BLaST, Jerry serves as the Point of Contact (POC) between schools and the BLaST IU's VLINC program while Lydia serves as the VLINC Coordinator. Through VLINC, BLaST now provides students with the option to enroll in the viaAcademies' Beginning Instrumental Music courses as well as our newly developed "Exploring Music with GarageBand / MixCraft" course. Our conversation focuses on the services provided by BLaST and how the addition of viaAcademies' music curriculum aligns with their mission to provide a rounded, hands-on, technology rich and engaging educational experience for the students.

Join CEO, Mark Burke in a conversation with Becky Ciabattari, viaAcademies Curriculum Development Manager, discussing the use of supplemental instrumental music programs for brick and mortar schools, the benefits for the students, teachers and parents. We also explore at risk programs, supporting minimally staffed programs both small and large. We end our conversation with a look to the future and what viaAcademies is doing to help future music teachers be prepared to teach music in the 21st century. Visit viaAcademies online at www.MakeMusicClick.com. Thanks for listening.

Join CEO, Mark Burke in a conversation with Joe Runciman about how music influences student's lives. Joe shares how he kept music part of his life during his elementary, high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees even though he did not pursue a degree in music. Joe recently began his Instructional Design degree internship with viaAcademies and we feel his story will inspire other students to keep music alive in their lives. For more information on our online Instrumental Music offerings, visit us at www.MakeMusicClick.com.

Join CEO, Mark Burke in a conversation with Thomas Crawford from iQITY.  This episode is dedicated to the 10's of thousands of teachers and school adminstrators who have thought about integrating eLearning into their brick and mortar school but have questions and doubts.  Throughout this episode Mark and Thomas discuss how eLearning positively impacts many brick and mortar schools today.  Educating today's students means providing resources beyond the walls of our schools.  viaAcademies is proud to have chosen iQity as our Learning Management System partner.  Our hope is that through our conversation, schools across the nation will see the benefits of eLearning as real and attainable.  At viaAcademies our program is designed to ensure your students remain your students and receive the help they need to be successful.  For more information on our online Instrumental Music offerings, visit us at www.viaAcademies.com.

Join Mark Burke, CEO and co-founder of viaAcademies and Dr. William Ciabattari, Instructional Supervisor and co-founder for a discussion on the viaAcademies teachers, the instructional model and ways the viaAcademies program can benefit schools.