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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Pete Carney and Brian Felix in the News

building connections in music education
Lisa Robbins, First Coast News 6:04 p.m. EDT August 13, 2014 “This initiative is part of a new music education curriculum.” JACKSONVILLE, FL. — Duval County Public Schools are launching a brand new initiative for digital-savvy students this school year. The initiative is part of a new music education curriculum. It’s called ‘Interactive Listening’, and
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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:  [email protected]   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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TMEA 2014 – Clinic: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Technology in Class

Music Education
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Technology in Class Music education has never been so exciting.  Whether you have access to very little technology or have a classroom equipped with tablets, almost everything you do with technology should be simple. If your tools aren’t fun, simple, memorable, or beautiful, you won’t use them. In this
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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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United Nations International School – Clinic

United Nations International School
This week we’re in New York City, and looking forward to meeting with teachers and students at the United Nations International School. We’re excited to see how they’re using Interactive Listening in their music program and to share a fun musical experience with them. It will be interesting to see how students from Embassies around
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iBook comes to Mac laptops and desktops

Interactive Listening iBook is now available on Mac laptops and desktops The moment we were all waiting for is here.  Apple has released its new OS X Mavericks which makes our fully interactive  iBook accessible to your Mac laptop or desktop.  Even better yet, the Mavericks update is free (follow this link to go to the
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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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