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Mac Power Users

531: Teaching with GoodNotes, with David MacDonald

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Dr. David MacDonald is a musician and professor with a unique way of using the iPad, Apple TV and GoodNotes together to engage and equip his students.

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0:00.0

MacPire Users, Episode 531, Teaching with Good Notes with David McDonald. Hello everyone this is David Sparks along with my pal and yours Stephen Hackett.

0:17.6

Hey David. Hi Stephen how you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing great.

0:23.0

Under the circumstances, I'm doing better than I should be.

0:26.0

It's good.

0:27.0

You got everybody under one house, you got a new dog.

0:29.0

What does you need?

0:30.0

Yeah, you know, there is some upside to all this madness and I realize that the downside greatly outweighs it, but there is some upside.

0:40.4

Got the kids home and the new dog isn't biting me as much.

0:44.0

So that's good.

0:46.0

That's good.

0:47.0

But we have a guest today.

0:49.0

Welcome to the show, David McDonald.

0:51.0

Thank you.

0:52.0

Happy to be here. Oh, man, always. Anytime we get a musician on, you know, it gets me

0:56.5

gets me going. I love talking to musicians about technology. David, tell us a little bit about yourself.

1:03.0

Well, I am a composer and a music professor.

1:06.6

I teach music composition theory and music technology

1:10.5

at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.

1:13.6

This is my second year there.

1:16.0

And before that I was in Orlando, Florida.

1:19.4

And before Orlando, I was in Michigan.

1:21.9

So I've been kind of doing similar things in all of those places and

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