Shropshire Music Service

The wonderfully useful application called ‘Snippy’, which can be downloaded free from this link allows any section of any screen to be captured with little more than a right click of the mouse - an ideal tool to add visuals to your presentations.

Thanks to Steve on the Shropshire Education blog for this one.

I have been contacted by the company Legacy Productions who have made a new software program to help musicians of all levels to learn letters on all staves as well as on piano and guitar. The program is ’shareware’ and called “Noteable” and you can try out a demo version of it at www.noteableflashcards.com. 

I’ve had a quick look at it and found that I have a disturbingly slow reaction time when using a mouse! The shareware is free for 15 sessions for evaluation purposes. 

Let me know what you think via the blog

The provider of the Cleobury Mortimer to Ludlow to Shrewsbury service has change with immediate effect to  R&B Travel.  Please note that the pickup points and times have not changes.

I have made a career doing things that weren’t even invented when I graduated from high school 40 years ago. It will be the same for today’s graduates, only on a sharply accelerating timeline. Much of what I learned in the classroom is obsolete or, at best, only marginally useful. What has made a difference in my life has been the ability to learn as I go, to adapt to new ideas, to have the courage to take risks, and to feel confident I will be able to perform and successfully meet the challenges of new situations. These skills I learned through participation in band and drama. - Fred Behning retired from IBM Corporation after a 32-year career that included assignments in systems engineering, product development, management, and customer technology briefings, and is still an IBM consultant. A life-long musician, Fred plays oboe and English horn in the Williamson County Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Symphonic Band.

This extract has been reproduced from the website of an American Music Association - The National Association for Music Education