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Comment by Douglass Denniston on January 15, 2012 at 6:52pm

Smartmusic -I have been using Smartmusic since 1999 when it consisted of individual floppy discs for each title. I firmly believe Smart music has revolutionized and changed the way students learn. With the advent of Smartmusic and the internet teaching,learning, and evaluating is no longer restricted to the confines of the school day. Smartmusic is differentiated instruction in its truest sense. In times were educators are under ever increasing scrutiny, Smartmusic provides emperical data that tracks and measures individual student achievement. I use Smartmusic in the classroom every day and my students use Smartmusic at home. There is no question in my mind of the value of this program. It's simply awesome. 

Comment by Robert Grifa on September 26, 2011 at 12:13am

As  veteran band director of 30 years and now SmartMusic Education Specialist with MakeMusic, I wanted to let you know about the new SmartMusic Online Community. The idea is for teachers to discuss and share ideas about using SmartMusic with their students and in the classroom. Some good conversations have already started about assessment and classroom useage. I hope you can check it out and join in the discussions. Mike, it would be great for you to join in with your expertise! http://www.smartmusiccommunity.com/

Comment by Mike Doll on March 17, 2011 at 11:18am

You da man Dan!  Thanks for your hard work and for making this an awesome tool in our teaching arsenal.

Comment by Dan Massoth on March 17, 2011 at 11:14am

Mike and Rick, I can give you an update of where we are at on this issue. Some of the practice times were not getting uploaded in certain cases (long explanation omitted here). At this point most of those problems have been resolved but we have one more set of improvments that will be released next week. At that point, all aspects of the practice reports should work consistently and smoothly. I think that you will like what you see and it certainly beats collecting practice calendars!

 

Dan -  SmartMusic Product Manager

Comment by Mike Doll on March 17, 2011 at 10:46am

I will check and see what the progress/status is of this.

Comment by Rick Owens on March 16, 2011 at 8:49pm

Hey Mike...  They had told me at convention in November that they were going to have the "glitch" fixed that week.  I wonder if they have just decided to tackle that in their next release.

Comment by Mandy Hollingshead on March 16, 2011 at 12:20pm

I've had smart music now for about two weeks. My kids that actually use it are really liking it, which is good. Our school purchased subscriptions for everyone for the first year, and I'm encouraging the kids to continue with their own subscriptions afterwards. 

The only downside to the program (for us) is that the assignments / testing / gradebook can only be used in the USA, not internationally.  It will help with the practicing, but nothing else. A pity, because I really could have used all of those other features.

Comment by Mike Doll on March 15, 2011 at 10:12pm

I am having problems with the practice record as well.  The good folks at MakeMusic are aware of the problem and are working to correct it as quickly as possible.

Comment by Rick Owens on March 15, 2011 at 9:19pm

Q..  Is anyone else having HUGE problems with the Practice Log feature in Smart Music 2011.  2010 worked perfectly, but 2011 does not keep good record of times and I have parents tell me their kids have time just disappearing on them.  It changes from one night to the next.  Curious as to whether anyone else was experiencing this.

Comment by Pamela A Rezach on February 1, 2011 at 5:25pm

Hello All,

Recently, I was sharing how I use SmartMusic with another person. He thought it would be a good thing to share them with those of you who are on this site. If you'd like to read the different approaches, go to my website. (I think it would be too long to post them here.) They will be posted in the Band Files found on the menu on my homepage.

www.teacherweb.com/oh/bolich/mrsrezach

 

I hope these ideas will be of benefit to you and that you can adjust them in your situation. Please, take the time to post the activities you do as well. I'm always in search of new ways to use SmartMusic. Pamela Rezach

 

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