Adventures of A Music Educator

Just me talking about the new formats I explored in podcasting and some new video skills that I have learned and its taking a toll on my laptop. Connect with me here! [https://cherthemusic.org/connect/]

Music learning is mainly provided as an enrichment programme in Malaysia. What is known as music academies or schools elsewhere is known as music centres here in Malaysia. Since the pandemic, the music teaching business is badly impacted and the industry is going through some growing pains as business owners accept, adapt and adopt new ways of running the business.  In this video podcast episode, I'm joined by Amanda Ong, the owner of Fusion Music Studio Puchong and a member of my online learning community, Music Teacher Meets Technology [http://cherthemusic.org/online-learning-comm/]. Amanda shared some of the progressive decisions she made for her studio. Tune in to find out more! ---- View video Podcast [https://youtu.be/IhrEwDo_yC0] --- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:52 Guest intro and education background 04:45 How Amanda started her own music centre 10:15 The norms of managing the business (i.e. staffing) 12:32 A brief explanation of the Malaysian music teaching business 13:20 The integrity of music teachers and how Amanda overcome staffing problems 14:50 The service offered to parents and students 17:55 Other services provided by music centres 19:40 Teachers as entrepreneurs 21:40 Teacher branding 24:56 How Amanda started to see the importance of branding 26:26 Cher's aspiration & niche in her own career 29:05 Don't focus on competition and just move forward 31:31 Amanda's success stories and trusting staff 33:47 The initial difficulties 36:27 Shared experience but different coping mechanisms 39:52 How Amanda get her teachers to ease into the new norm 42:40 Training tech to senior teachers 43:55 Zoom fatigue 44:34 Handling large class size online, class management and handling lesson objectives 48:10 Preparing materials for online lessons 49:30 Teaching older students 52:44 Feedback from teachers, parents & students 54:30 Online toddler music class 56:12 Amanda's game plan -"Start local, go global" and advertising the school's programme 59:12 Social media marketing 01:01:26 Mindset reset 01:02:47 Amanda's hope for the industry 01:07:01 How you can contact Amanda [Check podcast show notes] --- Amanda Ong, Fusion Music Studio Puchong [https://www.facebook.com/fusionmusicstudiopuchong ] Cherylyn | cherthemusic.org [//cherthemusic.org ]FB | Insta | Spotify | Many more [http://cherthemusic.org/connect/ ]http://cherthemusic.org/connect/ [http://cherthemusic.org/connect/ ] Podcast music from bensound.com

The pandemic has affected education worldwide and scholarly pursuits in music research is not left out. In this video podcast, I'm joined by Lee Voon Foong to discuss about some of the challenges and changes in the field of music research during this trying times. Is going virtual the only research method now? We also discussed a little about how the pandemic has affected music teaching and the learning attitudes of music teachers. Timestamps 00:00 Host intro 00:35 Guest intro 07:55 Topic intro 09:07 Brief overview of Voon Foong's research 11:20 Type of research he is doing 14:14 Finding his research participants 15:19 Getting information from music teachers 17:28 Challenges during the pandemic 21:15 The new norm of research 24:00 Using survey in research 25:34 Is the pandemic discouraging qualitative research? 27:46 Significance of research observation 29:51 Challenges of experimental research 31:07 Opportunities in research now 32:03 Challenges in virtual learning - Latency, teacher experience in virtual class 33:39 Self-efficacy of music teachers in teaching and learning 37:50 The attitudes of music teachers towards the pandemic 40:05 The difficulties of teaching wind instruments virtually and how it affects audio suppression in video calls 42:56 Closing thoughts by Voon Foong 46:25 Phd???? 47:55 Connecting with Voon Foong ------- Connect with Cherthemusic Social Media Platforms [https://cherthemusic.org/connect/ ] https://cherthemusic.org/connect/ Follow my podcast on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3MbVzxiWLFHCCXsbzdhR0N ] https://open.spotify.com/show/3MbVzxiWLFHCCXsbzdhR0N Connect with Voon Foong [https://www.facebook.com/34foong] https://www.facebook.com/34foong --------- Music from bensound.com

This episode is about my journey on Youtube Algorithm, SETO tools and developing video editing skills. I shared about my experience revamping my Youtube channel and how I learned some tricks from SEO tools. Watch video podcast here [https://youtu.be/ejMp5DRcGuE]: https://youtu.be/ejMp5DRcGuE Connect with me here! [https://cherthemusic.org/connect/] : https://cherthemusic.org/connect/ Background music from bensound.com

Here is a solution I shared for teaching drawing in Google Meets. Watch Video Podcast [http://cherthemusic.org/?p=3278] ------------ Connect with me here! : https://cherthemusic.org/connect/ [https://cherthemusic.org/connect/]