[school-discuss] Music in the Schools

[mikee <meschman@engima.com>]

hello,

We are setting up a recording and distribution network with WWOZ, the New 
Orleans Jazz station.  Beginning this summer, a live dj will broadcast a four
hour program live, which will be repeated until a new program is aired the 
following day.

WWOZ has a long standing policy of promoting new bands in New Orleans and 
Louisiana.  Their extensive audio and video archives include a wealth of 
original and unique materials, including a voluminous JAZZFEST Catalog and 
many other unique, regional festival materials.

Over time, on-site recording facilities will be made available at numerous 
clubs, as feeders to a multi-channel broadcast facility that operates 24 
hours a day with a mix of live and automatic programming.

Similarly equipped school districts can create archives of music and theatre 
performances by faculty and students.

We believe this material can be used in two important ways :

1 - To integrate music appreciation and education into social sciences and 
english language arts programs, accompanied by audio books for the blind
and for english as a second language students.

2 - To create materials that can provide a "backbone" for fund raising 
efforts by school sports and arts organizations, schools and for 
district-wide initiatives of every ilk, so long as they would benefit from 
an entertainment component.

Mike Eschman, etc...
"Not just an afterthought ...
http://www.engima.com

 




On Tuesday 28 May 2002 08:27 pm, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2002 17:25, jkinz@ultranet.com wrote:
> > I agree here Tom.  Sadly the schools who are making using Linux
> > conditional on the availability of EB don't.  Constructively - How do
> > we convince them ?
> > Jeff Kinz
>
> Hi:  Good question.  I'm still trying to figure how to get in front of
> principals and administrators.  However, since you brought it up.  There's
> a group of us that are convinced that if we can get communities to build
> low-cost recording studios, that provide FREE recording services, that we
> will go a long way to using that vehicle to encourage linux-based networks
> within the schools.  Indirect, but should be timely, as we continue to move
> to more and more interactive, multi-media apps.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Poe
> Reno, NV
> http://www.studioforrecording.org/
> http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
> http://renotahoe.pm.org/