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Dr. Kimberly C. Walls

Professor of Music Education
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Auburn University, AL 36849
(334) 844-6892
FAX (334) 844-6789
kim.walls@auburn.edu

walls2Kimberly C. Walls is a professor and the program coordinator of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum & Teaching at Auburn University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and music technology.  Her specialties include music technology, instrumental music education, general music education, and music perception.  Her current research focuses on the use of technology in music classrooms.
 
She is a TI:ME certified instructor, an author and editor of TI:ME curriculum materials, and serves on the TI:ME national advisory board.  Dr. Walls coordinates and teaches TI:ME Level I courses each summer at Auburn University.  She has presented technology clinics at music education workshops, conferences, and teacher in-services across the U.S.A. and in Canada and Greece.  Some of the clinics were presented for the  Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Mountain Lake Symposium for Teachers of General Music Methods, International Society for Music Education (ISME), Texas Music Educators Conference, Alabama Music Educators Conference, Florida Music Educators Conference, Texas Association of Music Schools, Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), and Research Alliance of Institutes of Music Education.
 
Her research has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education,Psychomusicology,and the Journal of Music Therapy.She is editor of the Journal of Technology in Music Learning. A monograph she co authored with Jack Taylor and Nancy Barry, Music and Students At-Risk: Creative Solutions for a National Dilemma,was published by MENC. She also edited three volumes of the Proceedings of the International Technological Directions in Music Education Conferencein addition to hosting that conference. She is editor of the Journal of Technology in Music Education and co-host of the National Symposium in Music Instructional Technology. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Music Teacher Education.
 
Another MENC publication, Strategies for Teaching: Music Technology,coauthored with Sam Reese and Kimberly McCord was recently published. She is also a contributing author to Silver Burdett's elementary music textbook series Making Music and an author for Making Music with MIDI.
 
Dr. Walls' web site:   http://www.auburn.edu/~wallski/ 
 

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. Florida State University, 1992 Music Education. Certificate of Computers and Music
M.Ed. Auburn University, 1985 Music Education.
B.S. Auburn University, 1982 Music Education.

 
Professional Experience

1997 - Present   Auburn University, Associate Professor of Music Education
1992 - 1997  

University of Texas at San Antonio, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Interim Assistant Division Director, Division of Music Coordinator of Instructional Computing

1989 - 1992   Florida State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant Center for Music Research
1986 - 1989   Auburn Junior High School, Auburn, AL; Middle School Music Teacher
1984 - 1986   Notasulga High School, Notasulga, AL; Elementary and Secondary Music Teacher
1983 - 1984   Selma High School, Selma, AL; Secondary Music Teacher
1983   Auburn University, Graduate Assistant, College of Education; Basketball Band Director

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