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Make An Interactive Whiteboard For Less Than $100 |
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Written by Chad Criswell
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 Last week I wrote a blog post about how I was now convinced that the SmartBoard was probably the best interactive whiteboard option for most music education classrooms. That opinion has not changed, but I recently came across a very good blog that devotes itself to the Wiimote Whiteboard system. For those of you that are not familiar with the idea you can make a fully functional yet cheap interactive whiteboard (IWB) for less than one hundred dollars by using a Wii video game remote, a bluetooth USB dongle, and an infrared pen.
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Thirty Days With A SmartBoard And Why I Won't Go Back |
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Written by Chad Criswell
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 For a year now I have been singing the praises of using interactive whiteboards (IWB's) in classrooms. I had the opportunity to use several different types of boards in various setups and my original conclusion was that in general it is not the board that is the most important part of the setup, it is the software that drives it. I still feel like that is the most important thing to consider, but after receiving a SmartBoard for my classroom and using it for the last month I have to admit that the SmartBoard technology wins the race, especially when being used with younger students.
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Music Teachers 911
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Written by larry Marra of musicteachers911.com
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.jpg) Ever ask yourself, "How loud is loud"?
The volume level for a passage marked, "Forte" depends on many factors. If the passage is the melody, I tend to play louder than if my passage is a supporting harmonic note or descant. Moving parts tend to be emphasized over the other parts to maintain the interest of the listener no matter what the arranger marked on the page. My "loud is louder if the ensemble is larger, the room is larger, the hall is crowded, the background level of the ambient noise is noticeable.
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FCC Rule Makes Hundreds of Wireless Microphone Systems Illegal To Use |
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Tales From The Podium
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Written by Chad Criswell
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.jpg) Over the last few years the FCC has began to reshuffle the way it hands out licenses for the wireless radio spectrum. The most notable of these has been the transition to digital television from the old style analog TV, but now this transition may bite your music program in a way you had not expected. Certain wireless microphone systems will now be illegal to use under the new rules. Will the airwave police come battering down your office door the next time you use your school or church's wireless microphone system?
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As you may have noticed over the past week or two the podcast and music education blog feeds from other music ed oriented sites have been up and down at various times. I've been having issues with the software, trying to cram as much stuff into it as possible without slowing the web site to a crawl. It turns out that sometimes my attempted fixes actually took the whole site down for a period of time, but finally I think I have it fixed.