Why "Pay-to-Play" educational games online?

Users get to have a learning experience in form of a game. It's appropriate for audiences for instruction, testing, drill and practice. Web channel distribution allows learning to occur any time any place. The entertainment value of software contributes to pleasing user experience. It's low cost alternative to traditional classroom instruction and educational software distribution. Everyone benefits from subscribing (learning).

Traditional Educational Software Delivery Issues

A school teacher buying educational software, in traditional sense, buys copies, lab packs or site licenses. They face a barrage of complex issues related to acquisition and use. Issues like:

1. Is software appropriate? This requires evaluation in form of asking: What is instructional component? Does software provide testing and assessment capabilities, is there a measurement of achievement? Are results immediate (we all know kids can't wait)? From a teacher's perspective, this means having students practice those areas of weakness to achieve mastery.

2. Can I use it in my class? Issues: will it serve my students? Is it safe? Are there school adoption procedures or bureaucratic red-tape to software acquisition? What political issues will I have to deal with, if any?

3. Utilization - how much of this software really gets used by students? Will software get reused after "newness" wears off? Students generally "burnout" or frequently use game in first 24 hours; interest thereafter declines.

4. Need for portability, Can I use it on all my PCs? Web enabled machines make learning possible anytime - at school, in after-school programs, or at home (learning occurs anytime any where).

5 Can instructional material be shared with diverse age groups or learning disabilities (people learn differently)?

6. Can instructional material provide support individualized attention (people learn at different rates)? It is great when you have a teacher, parent or tutor, but what if you don't? Educational software is next best alternative.

7. Value is based on educational and entertainment elements to software. Entertainment value is very important to delivery of educational software: Ideally, content should engage user -- a characteristic of most video games. Most children today have a video game orientation.

Hello! Welcome to wonderful world of music. Have you always dreamed of being able to learn how to play piano, keyboard, guitar or any other instrument? Well, your dream is just about to come true with this Free Music eCourse. This dream of yours is not something so far away that it cannot become a reality in a very short while.

This is not rocket science but it does take a genuine commitment on your part to read all seven chapters of this Free Music eCourse in order to learn music fundamentals that will apply to any instrument. Be sure to STICK WITH IT!

Make it a point to pace yourself. The course has been written with intention of going through it in order, with one chapter building on next. Now that you have laid groundwork for your plan, let us begin! Whatever instument you are studying or plan to study in future, each one of those instruments has a history. Let's take a moment to learn a very brief history of keyboard instruments.

Did you know that pianos in some form have been around for over 500 years? Some of first instruments of this kind were called clavichords. They had a very light, metallic sound because small hand-pounded 'hammers' were made of very light weight metal-like material. These hammers struck strings of varying lengths to create different tones or pitches. The next cousin to clavichord was harpsichord invented by Cristofori in Italy around 1450 A.D. This keyboard instrument had a mechanism in it called plecktrum which 'plucked' strings and produced a slightly stronger sound than its predecessor.

Whether you are playing an acoustic instrument, which is closest relative to history just mentioned, or an electronic keyboard, you are now participating in a centuries old musical art form.

SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Piano or Keyboard?

Does it matter if you have a keyboard or a piano? Certainly not. The only real difference is that a full size piano has 88 keys (counting both white and black keys). Keyboards come in several different sizes. Some have 60 keys, some even less. There are also 88 key electronic keyboards and digital pianos that produce very realistic acoustic sounds. Whatever size your instrument may be, remember that ARRANGEMENT of keys and ORDER of KEY NAMES is same on both instruments. Rest assured that your basic knowledge of fundamentals of music can be learned quite effectively either on a keyboard or a piano. The only missing ingredient is your own persistence and determination to persevere through entirety of material in this course with regular practice sessions. Do that and your success is assured!

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