Illinois Public Radio – Education and Curiosity

Education Desk: Meet Pete Carney By DUSTY RHODES • OCT 27, 2015   Five years ago, Pete Carney and a friend wrote a little textbook and got it printed up at Kinko’s. Within a few months, it was adopted by the prestigious International Baccalaureate program. It’s now used in more than 200 schools, several colleges
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TEDx Jacksonville – Designing Curiosity

We are very excited to announce that our very own Pete Carney, co-author of Interactive Listening a new approach to music, has been invited to speak at the coming TEDx Jacksonville in Florida on October 24, 2015. What a fantastic TEDx Jacksonville event! Inspiring and Energizing! Let’s keep the conversation going @InterListening #curiosity      
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Press Release: Duval County Selects Our Music Program Across the Board.

Duval County Adopts our iBook for their music appreciation classes
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville Selects Interactive Listening iBook and Textbook to Launch New Music Education Curriculum Contact:  contact@interactivelistening.com   JACKSONVILLE, FL, August 12, 2014—Duval County Public School officials have chosen a groundbreaking new iBook and textbook called Interactive Listening to launch an exciting new music education curriculum for
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Music Education in the Cloud

our cloud based music textbook for PC computers and some tablets
We’ve been working all summer on our newest project that makes Interactive Listening available to laptop and desktop computers. We hope to have a demo version available soon that will work on computers running Google Chrome as a browser. It looks amazing but isn’t finished. Probably a third of our emails have been from music
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The College Music Society – Cambridge 2013

The College Music Society
Interactive Listening will be exhibiting at The College Music Society in Cambridge October 31 through November 2, 2013.  Stop by our table and try our fully interactive  iBook or learn more about our paperbook version. We will be offering an incredible discount on our books during the conference. See you there!
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iBooks joining the Mac

Interactive Listening – Our iBook is joining the Mac Last week, Apple announced that the iBook format will now operate across ALL Apple/Mac computers including desktops, laptops, iPads and mini iPads with the new OS X. They have also featured INTERACTIVE LISTENING  at their annual developer convention in San Francisco. Read more on the apple
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iPad Technology in the classroom: Two Chicago Teachers Remix Music History

In the News To read the full press release go to:  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10720894.htm Two Chicago Teachers Remix Music History with iPad Technology. Interactive Listening iBook Chosen as #1 Editor’s Choice by Apple Created for digital-savvy students, Interactive Listening features Hollywood-style graphics, interactive 3-D instruments and computer games. At the same time, the iBook includes interactive educational content
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Jennifer Foxx’s Tech Tuesday, Music Education Review

review from music educator jennifer foxx
Jennifer Foxx just posted a great review of Interactive Listening on her website. Every Tuesday she posts a new page about music education and technology news that can help music teachers. It’s amazing how fast technology is amplifying the music education conversation. How long ago was it that teachers heard about new resources at All-State
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the Mozart kids from Salzburg

the music education revolution, music history reform, music technology on the iPad with ibooks author
the Mozart letters                                      While on tour in Italy, the 14-year-old Mozart wrote various letters to his older sister who was now left at home in Salzburg to prepare for marriage. While Mozart performed near the Roman Coliseum and ruins of Pompeii, Maria was beginning a new chapter in her life without music. 
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Apple’s #1 iBook on iTunes: Music education fights back

music appreciation for iPad, music history, Mozart, Jazz, African music, Latin music, textbook
We made it onto the top of the iTunes homepage in the picture above. Interactive Listening combines the interface of app design with the comprehensive text needed for a music course. Our music iBook is designed to create a new educational experience using one or thirty iPads in the music classroom. Click here to download
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