Looking forward... Claudia On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All! > > > I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my *"Fun With Tam > Tam Mini"* FLOSS manual after a hiatus (a So Cal word from the > "industry") brought on by all sorts of holiday and family distractions. > There are a number of other, unrelated, things folks have asked me to work > on now, but I figure if I don't get this done first, it will never get > done. So… > > > I am currently working on learning to use the free Finale Notepad software > to generate simple samples of all the musical examples in the manual, put > into standard musical notation. This was suggested by my middle- schooler, > violinist, granddaughter when she reviewed the draft, way back in November. > > > > I remember how those musicians among you who tried Tam Tam in my > mini-workshop at the SF summit found it confusing because you were used to > reading notes. I also found this with some second and third graders I > worked with in Montana who have had some music lessons. So… it will be > there for those who need it in a special Appendix. So far, I have done a > one octave C Major scale... woo-hoo! > > > I still will need to do some screen shots, but that should be fairly easy. > > > > ****(Important) *As soon as I finish the manual I will take excerpts and > put them into the new FLOSS manual update as a Tam Tam Mini chapter. I am > hoping someone will decide on the guidelines for these Activity chapters. > There should be a limit on the maximum number of pages for any single > Activity so we don't end up with any one being extremely long. We should > ask folks to include enough information for users to successfully begin to > use the Activity and then refer them to more information elsewhere (wiki, > FLOSS manual, web site, etc). > > > I'll let you know when "*Fun With Tam Tam Mini"* is finished and ready > for a final review. I know there are several of you interested in using > this in some of your deployments so… just a little more time and it should > be ready! > > > Grannie B (MA MusicEd) > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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