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:  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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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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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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Music education iBook for iPad hits Australia

a new style of music appreciation and music history come to Australia
Interactive Listening has been approved for sale in Australia. We think you’ll like the price compared to traditional music textbooks, and hope our book serves as a new introduction to music appreciation. We have some great material on Gamelan in our world music section. Hopefully we’ll meet more teachers at the Midwest Clinic next year. We’d
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iTunes #1 Editor’s Choice Interactive Edition for iPad

music appreciation, music instruments, 230 pages of interactive content, videos, 3D models, over 120 built in music samples, music technology
Here’s the ibook demo! We are excited to announce that Apple selected Interactive Listening as the #1 new interactive book and #1 Editor’s Choice in all categories.  Watch the demo below to find out why Interactive Listening is the first music textbook to ever be featured on the iTunes homepage. Download a 20 pages sample
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iBook premiere at TMEA music education conference, San Antonio 2013

Music Education
The book that changes music history. We’re excited to premiere our fully interactive iBook at TMEA. You have to see it to believe what is now possible in music education.  Stop by booth #129 to see our interactive book for iPad in action. Interactive Listening is a digital expedition through the world of music studying various
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