Using online platforms to create community in the voice studio: lessons from the pandemic
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Date
2021-09-01
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Eustis, Lynn
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Lynn Eustis. 2021. "Using Online Platforms to Create Community in the Voice Studio: Lessons from the Pandemic." Inter Nos (newsletter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing), Volume 54, Issue 2, pp. 28 - 30.
Abstract
Remote teaching has come a long way since the first
panicked days back in March 2020. At the beginning of
the pandemic many of us were scrambling to figure out how
to move voice lessons to a fully remote format. We found
ourselves in Zoom classrooms staring at frightened, displaced
students. Eventually we learned how to share files and links
in the chat, how to draw using the Whiteboard function, and
how to say “You’re on mute” approximately 35 times a day
without going insane. By the summer we were all settling into
the dreaded new normal: our FaceBook feeds were full of
posts about SoundJack, Cleanfeed, open-back headphones,
and external microphones. The effectiveness of remote voice
lessons and the range of available technologies for studio
teaching have been discussed elsewhere. This article will not
endeavor to offer technical instruction but rather to suggest
ways we might use technology to create community for our
students, with a particular focus on the voice studio class.