The company Noteflight is currently offering beta accounts for its flash-based notation application. According to a wired.com article if you sign up for the beta you become grandfathered into their system and can keep the account for free when they eventually start charging. Here’s a video overview of the application. I’m sure you can start thinking of some fabulous pedagogical applications for this in terms of both your own and your students’ use of it. Enjoy!
Thank you for sharing this! I hope to use this for my classroom perhaps to post practice music for my students on my website or perhaps for students to use for composition. Since Finale decided to start charging for Notepad I have been looking for a possible solution. Even when they do start charging, I can hopefully use one account for my students. They can use this program at home and at school. I see great potential here!
I believe that this product is very useful for an artist and can save his/her hundreds of dollars in the music industry
Evan and others — thank you for highlighting Noteflight’s potential for music education. This has always been one of our main motivations in building it. We read the music ed blogs eagerly and we are very, very interested in what folks are doing in schools with our service. (By the way, I am visiting a classroom in Lowell MA next week where Alex Ruthmann and company are doing some composition activities with Noteflight. Super exciting!)
I would like to clear up some of the confusion about pricing. Noteflight accounts with the capabilities you see today will still be free for individual use after the beta. We don’t plan to charge for these “basic” accounts, but we are working on a simple solution for classrooms that can manage student accounts conveniently, safely and legally, with some special features for managing student work, group work and activity templates. We expect this will be available for a modest subscription fee based on the number of students. (We can’t share any actual numbers yet.)
In the meantime I think the “single teacher account for a classroom” approach is a viable solution and it’s the one that we recommend to teachers who want to try it out.
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Hey Evan!
I’m very excited about Noteflight and have been in contact with Joe Berkovitz regarding using Noteflight safely in my middle school band classes. Any thoughts or collaborative ideas are welcome.
Thanks for the heads-up on this one Evan! I’ve been waiting a long time for something like this! For starters, there need never be any screenshot jpegs of musical examples on web pages ever again, now they can be truly interactive. As a demonstration tool for music education it is simply beautiful. I’ll watch for the updates with interest. Here’s hoping they can incorporate midi in the app somehow, for input and export.
I certainly favor using this product. This can help music artists reduce their expenses.
Thanks for sharing these information! I will look forward for your other posts.
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