A good measure of any website is whether it can keep you awake long into the night reading and listening to its wares. Since discovering numu my average hours of sleeping have reduced and my husband now snorts when he hears the words 'I'm just going to check numu' but it has had a huge impact on my teaching and non-teaching time at school.
numu is a website which allows schools and individual students to upload their own performances and compositions in a completely safe interent environment. More than that, it invites students to comment on each others' work, and has several charts of the best and most-listened-to music.
I started using numu at my previous school in Essex (www.numu.org.uk/estuary) and, having moved jobs to become a head of music in an inner-city academy in Sheffield, I am starting the process all over again with the new label SPark. (www.numu.org.uk/spark)
This blog will chart my new label's progress, successes and failures and will hopefully give a few other music teachers the courage to bite the bullet and go for it.
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