by INFORUM
Students ‘boot up’ for band practice
September 29, 2011 at 7:00 pm in INFORUM
Computers take place of traditional sheet music in area school
ADA, Minn. The music stands are out, or at least off to one side. The computer monitors are in. And Richard Tuttle’s vision of a paperless band classroom is marching toward reality, one digital quarter-note at a time.
Welcome to the future, the Ada-Borup band director said. Continue Reading
I’d like to know more about this. I have trouble following sheet music since my eyes don’t work together well. If he’s found a way to make the sheet music move along as it’s played, that would be wonderful. If he would patent that it would mean big money for him, and would be a godsend for people with vision problems.
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I can’t say I am a big fan of this. I get the concept but I do not see it working without significant monetary costs. Oh sure, he found used computers and such but not all schools have used computers sitting around. So you have the issue of getting the computers, and keeping them running. Contrary to what some may think, parts are not produced forever, especially for macs. not only that, but software changes too and requires more resources than these old machines have. Then you are stuck getting newer ones.
Next you have the poor schlub that has to support these computers. That person has enough to do already without trying to support outdated systems, which could be mixed models, further increasing the nightmare.
THEN you have this e-reader thing. Sure a kindle might be nice but schools can do that forever and soon students will have to foot the bill for that too. not to mention, if it gets stolen or dropped.
This idea is just not here yet I don’t think. Even if it sounds nice.
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