[Solar-general] Musix is being used at Joe Wilson Intermediate School in Cedar Hill, Texas, USA

[Marcos Guglielmetti]

El Jue 25 Ene 2007 05:33, Diana Venturini escribió:
> Very good!!!!
> (claro, ahora a tus alumnas de 3er. mundo y 4ª edad ya no nos vas a
> dar ni 5 de bolilla...o sí?) 


Mientras tengan un 6to sentido, todo estará bien ;)

> Igual felicitaciones!!! 

jaja, gracias!

> abrazo
> Diana
>
> 2007/1/24, Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica en gmail.com>:
> > Article: http://www.musix.org.ar/wordpress/?p=53
> >
> > Musix is being used at Joe Wilson Intermediate School in Cedar Hill,
> > Texas, USA
> >
> > The school teacher Marilyn Hagle (marilyn.hagle [ … ] chisd.com) is using
> > Musix in her lessons of music at Joe Wilson Intermediate School in Cedar
> > Hill, Texas, USA.
> >
> > "I am a 5th/6th grade general music teacher and use bootable Musix CDs in
> > our computer lab with students once a week. It rocks!
> >
> > First the students work on the easy rhythm practice exercises in Solfege.
> > Then we go to the Hydrogen Drum Machine program and the students write
> > their own rhythm patterns.
> >
> > I have each class for only twelve weeks a year. This twelve weeks term we
> > are going to try compose a melody and add percussion to it. Note Edit
> > would be the easiest to use with this age group, but in the .5 version it
> > doesn't load the synthesizer consistantly (could be user error of course
> > :) ). I am downloading your latest release right now, so maybe that will
> > have a fix."
> >
> > We are working to debug this problem, maybe related to Timidity.
> >
> > "It might interest you to know that the students are now working on
> > composing percussion accompaniments in Hydrogen for the program.  We will
> > be singing our school song, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," and playing a
> > melody from Beethoven's 9th Symphony on our recorders . . . all with
> > Hydrogen accompaniments.  :)"
> >
> > She have taught also in Minnesota and Chicago, her BA is in music and her
> > MA in media communications, also she is certified to teach music and
> > technology applications in Texas.
> >
> > Well, boys, another woman using GNU/Linux! But, "sadly", she is married
> > ;)
> >
> > Marilyn started using computers in the classroom in 1982, she moved to
> > Free Software in 1998, and she thinks educators are crazy or lazy for not
> > using GNU+Linux.
> >
> > Just a last note… Marilyn is exited about the new apps that were included
> > into the last Musix's version, 0.79 (we included them thinking about the
> > needs of artistic schools and rock bands): "I was so excited to download
> > your latest version and see it included Cinelerra and Blender!!  Before I
> > took this job, I taught high school computer animation using Blender
> > (fabulous!).  One of my educational goals has been to teach kids how to
> > write their own songs and make them into music videos!!"
> >
> > Thanks Marilyn Hagle for using, teaching and spread Free Software!
> >
> > --
> > Marcos Guglielmetti
> > * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre
> > * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/)
> > * Videos, programas y otras cosas en:
> > ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a:
> > https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs
> > *IRC: #musix channel on freenode
> > * http://autosus.wordpress.com/
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Marcos Guglielmetti  
* Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre
* CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/)
* Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/
* Reporte de errores a: 
https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs
*IRC: #musix channel on freenode
* http://autosus.wordpress.com/