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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..

Skoog scores in action

Curriculumn for Excellence and the Skoog

Well it is officially the beginning of advent.  So here is a wee christmas carol from all of us here at Skoog.  With the Snow falling we felt it was time to start the xmas wishes. This is our first official duet uploaded – nice work Maggie working out the harmonies.  Also we are using [...]