Piano lesson conducted coast to coast
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - PA Cyber student Calista Frederick-Jaskiewicz of Wexford, Pa., helped demonstrate a virtual piano lesson between California and Washington, D.C., to a distinguished national gathering of educators at the 9th annual Intel Education Visionary Conference April 15.
Videos of the remote piano lesson may be viewed at:
http://www.k12blueprint.com/k12/blueprint/visionary2010_videos.php
Attending by invitation only, the Intel conference brought together 100 policy makers, government officials, and education technology leaders from across the nation.
Lincoln Park managing director Stephen Catanzarite introduced a presentation team including Calista Frederick-Jaskiewicz as the student and her teacher, Jarrod Radnich, a young composer and pianist, performing from the Black Box Theatre of the Hi-Desert Cultural Center in Joshua Tree, Calif.
With two Yamaha Disklavier grand pianos connected over the Internet, keystrokes and foot peddling by the teacher and student were reproduced as faithfully as if they were in the same room.
George Litterst of TimeWarp Technologies, the inventor of many of the software utilized in the remote lesson, and Craig Knudsen, a Yamaha Music Corporation innovator in the area of music technology, participated in the demonstration.
The session’s finale featured Radnich playing the piano from California as soprano Patti Cohenour, in the character of Christine Daae from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Phantom of the Opera” sang “Think Of Me” from that show.
Photographs from the demonstration are posted at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Governingpics/IntelEvent#
Dr. Nick Trombetta, CEO of PA Cyber Charter School, also appeared at the Intel conference as part of a panel discussing the future of online education.
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