March activity from The Interactive Music Room

The Interactive Musicroom Book 1

The Interactive Musicroom Book 1 is due to be released in the next couple of weeks and we have a free activity for you to try out.

You don't actually need to have an Interactive White Board (IWB) to see how this activity works. You can try it out on your computer with a free copy of Easiteach Reader - or you can watch the demo video and download the accompanying resource material we have for you.


You will find the activity here
Enjoy!


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The Interactive Music Room at the National Orff Conference

The Interactive Music Room book 1 (beginning primary) made its first public appearance at Creating New Blends, the National Orff Conference in Adelaide Jan 3-8.

We have some pics of author and South Australian teacher, Cheryl Burgemeister, presenting her workshop. The delegates were as excited as us about this stunning new way of combining classroom music education and technology and The Interactive Music Room was certainly one of the big buzzes of the conference. A big thank you to Glennys Gysbers & the team for having us there and to Richard Gysbers for wonderful tech support.



We’ll also be demonstrating it in Brisbane (May), Sydney (May), Perth (June) and Melbourne (May & Aug). Interactive whiteboards are amazing teaching tools and enormous fun (at least, that’s how we’ve approached the Music Room software). Come along to one of the PDs and have a play with it. Check here for details.

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Publisher at Bushfire Press

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Music & the interactive whiteboard

We have some fantastic news for all of you with interactive whiteboards (IWBs). We are about to launch our first interactive title. IWBs are an exciting new teaching tool and so easy to use. Cheryl Burgemeister, a primary music teacher from South Australia, has been busy creating exciting IWB adaptations of our ‘Music Room’ program. The first one is called ‘The Interactive Music Room – book 1 (beginning primary)’. It has been created with EasiTeach and will be out in Feb 2010. More information on our earlier blog post.

Grappling with new technology is always a headache for authors and publishers alike and we are most grateful for the support the EasiTeach and RM Pacific have given us and have been most fortunate to have IWBs and technicians supplied by the good folk at ‘Well Imagine That!’. There’s nothing these guys don’t know about classroom use of IWBs and we recommend them for hardware software and in-servicing. Check them out at www.wellimaginethat.com.au and tell ’em we sent you.

It’s exciting to see this new and accessible technology becoming a part of classroom music programs. I’ll have lots more to tell you about it next time.

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Publisher at Bushfire Press

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The Interactive Music Room

We are very excited to announce the arrival in 2010 of our first title for Interactive Whiteboard!
Teachers no longer need juggle a CD player, DVD player and Data projector with this "all in one" package.
Students can:

• touch the screen to animate characters
  
• touch and reveal
  
• drag and drop notes, characters and icons
  
• start and stop music
  
• play virtual sounds and notes and perform a host of other Interactive functions.

Available Feb 2010
Find out more and preorder now!