Noteflight Score

Ok! After several hours of frustration and confusion, I think I finally got this thing embedded correctly! Thank goodness for a student who figured out that the embed code on the noteflight screen was actually missing some pieces of code that made this actually work!!!!

Anyway....

Besides my frustration with sharing my score, I thought this program was very easy to use and I could see students having a lot of fun using this site. The fact that this is cross-platform and available for free to anyone makes this an incredibly valuable tool for students. In the school I currently work in, there are large computer labs where an entire band or choir class could work on composing their own music. I also really like how this site allows for collaboration, which could be a great tool to help students gain confidence in their ability to compose and allow for an authentic audience of not only their classmates, but other students around the state, country or the world!

The only thing that was frustrating to me as far as note entry goes was how you had to re-click on the beat if you were adding chords. This took a lot of extra time and if I forgot to click on it, it would add the notes to the next beat which could really mess up my score. I also had a few difficulties with the triplets because I started with quarter notes which really screwed up when I tried to change it to eighth note triplets...Overall, however, the pros of this program far outweighed the cons!