Gigajam's Essential Skills Courses get OCN Accreditation
04 October 2007
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Open College Network Credit4Learning, one of the UK’s national accreditation services for learning and skills, has announced that Gigajam’s Essential Skills Courses for the guitar, bass, keyboards and drums can now be studied to earn credits to gain entry into further and higher education courses.
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London Schools Get Gigajam Upgrade
16 August 2007
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Schools across London have become the first in England to receive a Gigajam upgrade via their local broadband network. London Grid for Learning hosts the first five lessons of Gigajam’s Essential Skills Courses for guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, which are freely available to schools.
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Gigajam sponsors RockIT! 2007
25 June 2007
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Teenagers around the country are dusting off their drums and buffing up their bass guitars in time to take part in a major music competition.
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Gigajam to exhibit at Scottish Learning Festival and BETT
24 May 2007
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See Gigajam at leading education technology exhibitions
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Gigajam and Yamaha hit the right note with The Independent's readers
29 April 2007
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From 14th to 20th April Gigajam and Yamaha ran a ‘Learn to Play the Keyboards’ course over seven days with The Independent newspaper. This included a 48-page workbook, a free CD, and five worksheets that ran as inserts in the newspaper.
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Gigajam and Yamaha Create Musicians with The Independent
12 April 2007
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The Independent newspaper has selected Gigajam, in partnership with Yamaha, to create a keyboard course that will run over seven days. Starting on Saturday 14th April, the ‘Learn to Play the Keyboard’ course is free to Independent readers.
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Gigajam for Intel Mac Now Available
19 January 2007
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Gigajam has today launched an Intel Mac version to continue making Gigajam available on the Apple platform.
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Music Lessons for all Scottish Schools
23 November 2006
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Schools across Scotland are set to have access to a free online music tuition resource that will help to teach students the guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. This will give over 700,000 students the opportunity to learn a musical instrument via Glow, the national intranet linking Scottish education funded by the Scottish Executive and run by Learning and Teaching Scotland in partnership with RM.
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Music Company Sponsors Local School In Bid For Specialist Status
17 November 2006
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Gigajam, a provider of ICT-based musical instrument tuition, has today announced a five-year sponsorship of St Bernard’s Catholic School in High Wycombe. This sponsorship is in support of the school’s long term aims for development, which includes an application to become a Specialist School in Science.
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Buckinghamshire Schools Get 'Gigajamming'
08 November 2006
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Thirty schools across Buckinghamshire are set to gain access to Gigajam’s Essential Skills Courses for guitar, bass, keyboards and drums following a two-year licence agreement between Buckinghamshire County Council and Gigajam, giving thousands of students the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
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Gigajam Rocks Up for Rock Idol
16 October 2006
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The Rock Idol 2006 competition is seriously hotting up and is already being hailed a huge success by its organisers. This year there have been over 200 bands entering from schools within seven Regional Broadband Consortiums across England and Northern Ireland, each performing their own individual songs live on the internet using video conferencing technology.
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Teachers Training in London to Access Latest Technology
27 September 2006
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Teachers training in the capital are set to benefit from free access to the latest IT-based teaching resources, including Gigajam’s award-winning Essential Skills Courses for Guitar, Bass, Keyboards and Drums.
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Gigajam and The Institute form partnership to create music pathway
10 May 2006
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One of Europe’s finest schools of modern music, The Institute, and leading ICT-based musical instrument tuition company, Gigajam, have announced a strategic partnership that will provide a pathway of world-class training for musicians right through from the very basics of learning a musical instrument, to developing a career within the music sector.
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Music lessons for Boston United Playing for Success Centre
27 April 2006
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Boston United Football Club’s study support centre (Onside@BostonUnited) has become the first UK sports club to offer musical instrument lessons to pupils from local schools as part of a Playing for Success course.
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AT Computers to take Gigajam musical instrument tuition to schools
30 March 2006
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AT Computers, Apple’s solution experts for education, has today announced a partnership with leading ICT-based musical instrument tuition company, Gigajam, to distribute and resell its Essential Skills suite of products to the education market. Institutions investing in Apple as a platform can use Gigajam on Macs, on a network, streamed over the web and via Virtual Learning Environments.
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More Free Music Lessons for London Primary Schools
24 March 2006
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Primary schools in the capital will soon be able to benefit from additional free musical instrument tuition. London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a regional broadband consortium set up by London’s 33 Local Authorities to deliver broadband and content to schools, has today announced that it is working with the UK’s leading provider of musical instrument tuition software, Gigajam, to develop a primary-specific curriculum for pupils to learn to play the keyboards and drums.
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Ramesys to take musical instrument tuition to schools
16 January 2006
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Partnership with Gigajam for ICT-based music tuition.
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Argyll & Bute first to give Scottish children online music tuition
21 September 2005
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Leading online tuition company, Gigajam Interactive Music School, has today announced that Argyll & Bute is the first council in Scotland to provide secondary schools in the area with access to online musical instrument tuition on the bass, guitar, drums and keyboard.
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Coca-Cola finds the real thing with Gigajam
20 April 2005
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Coca-Cola learning rep Dominic Lorraine approached Gigajam in 2004 with a view to setting up guitar lessons for groups of Coca-Cola employees.
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Gigajam collect prestigious BETT award
14 January 2005
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Gigajam has been awarded the winners prize in the “Learning and Skills, Software, Hardware, Content and Tools” category of the prestigious BETT Awards 2005.
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Gigajam Awarded Preferred Supplier Status to BBC Digital Curriculum
January 2005
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Gigajam Interactive Music School, the leader in contemporary, interactive musical instrument tuition, has today announced that it has been awarded Preferred Supplier status for the BBC Digital Curriculum project, as part of the EdICTs Consortium. The BBC Digital Curriculum, planned for launch in January 2006, will provide a free, curriculum-based, online service for 5-16 year olds and is designed to stimulate at home learning in particular for those students least likely to succeed through more conventional education approaches. Gigajam is the only listed content provider of interactive contemporary musical instrument lessons on the BBC Digital Curriculum preferred supplier list.
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Gigajam shortlisted for a BETT award
27th October 2004
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Gigajam Interactive Music School is delighted to announce that they have been short listed for an award in innovation in Education by the organisers of BETT. The BETT show is the biggest education show in the UK and is the leading light in emerging technologies and examples of teaching with technology.
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Jim bangs the drum for those with disabilities
17 November 2004
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Gigajam at SEN 30th September - 1st October
2nd October 2004
Gigajam Press Office
Gigajam’s Essential Drum Skills Course has been implemented recently in the development of music at Nightingale School in Wandsworth. Accordingly, Gigajam was keen to see how we could further develop our products for the Special Needs section of the Education market.
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Gigajam and SETT 22nd - 23rd Septmber Glasgow
2nd October 2004
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Gigajam attended the annual show in Scotland and spent the day liaising with and discussing the needs of Scottish educators who were interested in both Music and the use of ITC for the delivery of Music as a subject specialism.
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Gigajam and The London Grid for Learning
1st October 2004
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Gigajam in partnership with the London Grid for Learning (LGfL), have launched the first ever performance based e-learning music education content which will be available free of charge to all students in the London Grid’s region.
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Learning an instrument now even easier due to partnership between the Musicians Channel and Gigajam
22 September 2004
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The Musicians Channel, the first and only digital television channel that is dedicated to encouraging, inspiring and educating all people with an interest in music (Sky Channel 475), has joined forces with Gigajam, the UK’s leading multimedia music tuition company. Together they have produced a new series of TV shows based on Gigajam’s highly structured and graded Essential Skills courses for the four primary contemporary instruments; guitar, bass, keyboard and drums.
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Gigajam and NAME at London Docklands 17th - 18th September
19th September 2004
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Gigajam attended and exhibited at the 2004 National Association of Music Educators at the London Hilton Docklands.
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Gigajam and SAME at Stirling University 8th - 9th September
10th September 2004
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Gigajam attended the annual Scottish Association of Music Education 2004, after being provided with late access to the conference by Graeme Wilson, Secretary of SAME.
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Gigajam Makes European TV Debut with Musicians Channel
29th August 2004
Gigajam and Musicians Channel are delighted to announce a new series of Gigajam TV programmes covering Grade 1 of Gigajam’s Essential Skills courses for Guitar, Bass, Keyboards and Drums to be broadcast in Europe exclusively on Musicians Channel (Sky Channel 475) from 16th September 2004.
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MUSIC TEACHING SET FOR MASSIVE OVERHAUL
25th April 2004
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THANKS TO INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY
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Gigajam Interactive Music Classroom
10th May 2004
Gigajam Press Office
Gigajam had been invited by Wandsworth City Learning Centre to run a four day course for the children of Wandsworth as part of the LEA’s Gifted and Talented Scheme.
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Gigajam and Wandsworth City Learning Centre
17th March 2004
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Gigajam Exam Results Released
20th November 2003
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Education Director, Brian Greene announced that the number of students studying Face2face in the Approved Tutor Network on the Essential Drum Skill Course has risen above 400 for the first time.
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Gigajam achieve Registered Body Status for Criminal Records Bureau
1st November 2003
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Gigajam Rocks The East
9th July 2003
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Gigajam Analyser 2.7 Released
26th May 2004
Gigajam Press Office
Today Gigajam released their new Analyser 2.7 music assessment software.
Analyser is a unique tool that takes music files recorded by a student during a Gigajam lesson exercise and generates a graphical display of how well the student did, along with a percentage assessment rating.
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