I have a B.M.E. from The Ohio State University and a M.A. in Music Education from Northeastern Illinois University and currently teach fourth through eighth grade music at Sunset Ridge School in Northfield, Illinois. In 2004, a 13-station Mac MIDI lab, with controller-headsets that was installed at Sunset Ridge. Additionally, Sunset Ridge has been a part of the Vermont MIDI project for the past two years. Students compose music and professional composer mentors comment on a password protected website.
My website http://www.carolbroos.com parents and students use daily. Also on the website is http://www.beatechie.com a teacher-friendly website where teachers have posted their work they have completed at my presentations. There are links, blogs, pictures, and videos. It also has all the handouts and (powerpoint) presentations for downloading. I have a blog www.eagles.edublog.org
I recently re-mastered my recital at THE Ohio State University. I created a website with my performance. http://web.mac.com/carolbroos/iWeb/recital/Welcome.html
My website has received the “school website of the week” for March 16, 2007 by techlearning.com. Link: http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604235
I traveled to Japan on a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund teacher scholarship in October 2006. My Japan website is listed on the JFMF website. http://www.fulbrightmemorialfund.jp/fmfers.html
I have published an article for Technology Institute of Music Educators (Spring 2007, Vol. 9, No, 2) titled “GarageBand, not GarbageBand.” I have presented at the Illinois Music Educators Convention (IMEA), the National Technology Institute of Music Educators (TI:ME), Ohio Music Educators Conference (OMEA), Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE), and Illinois Educational Technology Conference (IETA). I taught “Movie Making” as part of the Vermont MIDI Project professional development workshop this Summer 2007. Additionally, I am teaching summer workshops at Sunset Ridge for classroom and teaching a three-hour hands-on class “GarageBand for the Classroom,” for the Summer Experience North at Stevenson High School, as part of Western Illinois University this summer of 2007. Finally, I am an Illinois provider for CPDU’S.
