Very nice ! I love to read/listen this kind of story, about using Free Software with success. Musix is awesome. I'm using it right now :)! Congratulations Marcos and teacher Marilyn Hagle. I hope we can read/listen to more stories like this very soon. Keep the good work. Cheers, On 1/24/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice Story. Thanks for sharing it. On 1/24/07, Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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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