"I can't wait to integrate your new book World Beat Fun (Warner Bros,) into the curriculum - I got a chance to look through it last night & it will be very beneficial in our preparation for the CATS test." - Ceci Prater, Duff Elementary/Allen Central Middle School

" I love the book and will be incorporating the material soon."   Donna Lewis, Russell Elementary School.                  

I have been reviewing the book World Beat Fun today because we have bought copies of the book for all of our music teachers to use in a professional development session later this summer. I like the way that you have included different lines to teach instruments as accompaniment to certain music cultures. You have made it simple for teachers and students alike by giving us a CD with the accompaniment of each instrument playing with you.
We have an audio as well as a visual. The tracks are simple to follow with the number of the CD track at the beginning of each line. Many of the styles of music included in the book are a part of our Core Content and will appear on our CATS test in the spring in some form. The students will be given the opportunity to hear, see and do. Since some students are visual learners, and some are auditory learners this will help us reach more children. This professional development session should be even more effective because it will be a follow-up session to your performance with our students this past school year. Thank you for including the CD which makes this a bargain for both the book and CD. We look forward to having you return to our district in the future!!   Sheila Underwood  Lincoln County Board of Education, KY

"Wajler's book succeeds not only in combing technology and arts in the classroom, but also in generating motivation and self-esteem with social skills and cooperative learning.  The 'Think, Plan, Assemble, Produce' guidelines are remarkable.  Fascinating."  Music Teachers National Association magazine

Mixcraft™ for the Classroom 2nd Edition  by Steve Riddle and Zig Wajler

Overview: 
Mixcraft™ for the Classroom 2nd ed. by practicing educators Steve Riddle and Zig Wajler is a teacher resource book based on the input and feedback from
educators, students, and teachers of how to best serve the needs of their respective classrooms by promoting learning through technology.  The book includes step-by-step software basics, innovative interactive lesson plans designed as do-able engaging stand-alone activities, visual examples of student projects and visual software screen-shot examples, and review mini-lessons.  The content includes contemporary 21st Century Learning strategies with cross-curricular connections based on real world applications as extensions of the classroom.  Students expand their thinking, learning, creativity and communication by applying various strategies to produce projects such as; original cell phone ring tones, public service announcements, virtual art galleries, archived historical studies theme, plays, poetry, commercial jingles/podcasts, scripts, music play-alongs, printed notation, archived writing, and more.
Total of 205 pages.