Musescore and Piratebox

Since I decided that you do not need a sheetmusic method to learn to play een instrument and my recorder students can work with an e-reader or tablet I provided them, I start experimenting with musecore and internet. First with a website where I can upload short melodies I made (Or my students made) and the site show them for example in pictures of the fingering the have the use and soundfragments and a score (see http://lessen.ganassi.nl)

Then I discovered my students like to work with musescore in the lessons, to compose ther own music, or practise music theory. And I discovered that sharing material with my students was hard. I needed internet access (what is not avelable everywhere) so I had to load the material to every tablet/e-reader seperately using an USB cable. That took to much time of my lessons. That is why I start searching on the internet for a alternative, and I found the piratebox (http://daviddarts.com)

My husband (An open source developer) put the pirate box on a mini PC and now I can easely share my material with my students, they can do it them selves, I upload it to the pirate box and they download it to their tablets with wifi.

And my latest discovery....the musecore software I have on my laptop with Ubuntu make connenction with my piratebox (musescore connect) I can upload a musescore file to my pirate box and with musescore connect I can simply open that file in musecore to click on the file I want.

This is something that I going to use in my next lessons.