When textbooks go fully digital what will schools buy? Will they buy individual lessons, units of 2-3 weeks length, or full curriculum that span a year the way they do today? This is the $5 billion question facing our industry. Mike Shatzkin has an excellent post on this topic over…
Been fighting the crud since Saturday. The best I can muster so far this week is an overdue iTunes Mix for your listening pleasure. I found a couple of particularly good new artists (for me) – Richard Shindell (also in Cry, Cry, Cry), and Pink Martini. Thanks to Rich Geist…
Its time again for a mix of my favorite tunes from the past few months. There was an unusually large crop of great music this summer – and whittling it down to just 20 songs was tough. This mix is pretty rootsy although there is some rock, jazz, and folk…
Wondering how to spend that iTunes gift card you got from Aunt Millie? Here are few suggestions from my latest favorites that you might want to consider. Here are my suggestions on how to spend an iTunes Gift Card: 1. Look at your own iTunes library for artists that you…
My prior post on iTunes and Textbooks started with this iMix. As I mulled the educational implications over I realized that this was exactly how teachers should be sharing instructional materials. As a musician and music aficionado I listen to a lot of new music. My tastes range across genres…
Why can’t teachers buy lessons like people buy songs off of iTunes? Are publishers at risk of irrelevance if they don’t proactively solve this problem for their customers? I have noticed that my music habits have changed dramatically over the past 5-6 years. With the advent of iTunes I was…
I’m always on the lookout for new tunes and in the spirit of share and share alike I’ve posted an iMix on iTunes of my farvorite stuff from the past year. Follow to the backside for more details and the complete list. You will find a bit of everything here.…