SKOOG flying the special needs music flag at the 2011 Music learning live conference

Case study documenting Skoog in mainstream early years music and ICT

Case studies now available for the Skoog being used in Special Needs Music – Autism, Global delay, Visual Impairment, Down’s Syndrome

The chaps at EduGeek paid us a visit at BETT and they have uploaded some footage of me running through some of the new features of the new software.  You have to scroll through to 4.40 seconds to get to the Skoog demo.  http://tinyurl.com/6hvv2px I will get a fresh run through of the new software [...]

Well we are back from BETT 2011 and what a great few days it was.  Met loads of new friends and supporters and caught up with some old faces.  The show seemed to have a heavy ‘handheld’ or PDA tech for class room slant.  Not much music there this year, no ROland no Yamaha.  Which [...]

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The Skoog has caught the eye of the folk at Take Part – inspiration for action. Featuring on their Technology blog. The site is a community website focused on socially conscious media and issues and it is great to see people like this taking an interest in accessible music provision

The new year is seeing the slow but steady spread of international awareness about the Skoog.  Brazilian publishing house  Editoro Globo recently ran a feature on the Skoog lovingly translated into Portuguese by the good people at Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negocios  (or Small Companies & Great Businesses to you and me).  Great to see [...]

Audrey at full pitcher has posted a nice write up of the Skoog.  This is a great website and Audrey’s blog in particular is full of really useful  information about music making for all! Thanks full pitcher and here’s to a fruitful 2011.

Joy has been bringing the jungle to Tranent Scotland! Here you can see a pupil at the Hub exploring some animal samples (such as a Jaguar I believe).  Many of the animal sounds actually work very well with the more expressive tactile playthrough option, but here you can see Joy has made the Skoog nice [...]

Ever the busy bee – Joy has dug out some more possible sources of funding: http://www.jpgettytrust.org.uk/index.html J Paul Getty Jnr charitable trust started funding grants in 1986 and has awarded a sum of £38 million to over 3000 charities across the UK. It aims to fund well managed projects that help to relieve poverty, support [...]

A feature by Simon Meadows of Optimist news. written in July but only just stumbled upon.  I love the way word of mouth filters through the media and nod here and a wink there and all kinds of people can be brought into the loop.  We are still in the ‘toddler’ stages of  learning to [...]

Sources of Funding for Music in Special Needs, ICT etc..