Per Skold from Humfryskolan in Malmo, Sweden reminded us that sometimes a smile is enough! To this end I have begun a Flickr site simply entitled Jam2jam_Smiles to gather all the lovely pics of people of all ages being engaged and smiling while usig jam2jam.

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Download a Free Public Beta version of Jam2Jam for Apple Mac OSX10.4 & 10.5 (NOT SNOW LEOPARD)

ACID network Jamming team proudly announce the first Pblic Beta release of Jam2jam AV. This version has been extensively tested by young people and teachers in the UK, USA, Europe, Hong Kong and Australia in successive trials over two years.  Thorin Kerr has put in a mammoth effort in developing this latest version with Assoc Prof Andrew Brown increasing the stability and robustness of the software and Andrew Sorensen's Impromptu development at the core of this release.

For teachers there is a support and share area called Recipes for Jamming that provides ideas and lesson materials for using jam2jam in classrooms and communities.

Don't forget you can join the jam2jam social network and upload your jams at http://www.jam2jam.com/

Per Skold  at Humfryskolans in Malmo has been working with a  translated version of the Meaningful Engagement Matrix and Year 9 Students.  See his blogpost about how it appears to enable  a description of his 'gut feelings' about student engagement with music tasks. 

Network Jamming Research is spreading across the world and this month we welcome German music Educator Dr Michael Ahlers from the University of Padeborn. Michael will be including Jam2jam in his creativity research culminating in data analysis in January 2010. His work with music technology and creativity and the critical review of music technology in school settings is a much needed critical perspective on music technology in education. Jam2jam presents opportunities to respond to critical analysis through the simultaneous  development of softaware and pedagogy.

Welcome also to our Hong Kong Institute of Education researchers  Professor Samuel Leong and his team of Educational researchers: Barry Lee and Dr Lai Chi Rita Yip who will be undertaking research in Hong Kong Schools and communities.

We welcome the opportunity to work in Partnership with the Hong Kong Film Archives. Our generative software Metascore developed by Andrew Sorensen we hope will provide an opportunity for new ways of presenting silent movies. Many thanks to Ms. Kiki Fung and Sam Ho. We look forward to realising these exciting projects.

The Network Jamming team would like to sincerely thank the energetic and innovative researchers at the Hong Kong Institute of Education for their fantastic hospitality and enthusiastic support of the project.  We welcome Professor Sam Leong, Dr Lai Chi Rita Yip and Barry Lee From Hong Kong Institute of Education to the Network Jamming team.

Thanks also to the dynamic Ms Kiki  Fung from the Hong Kong Film Archives

Who made so many great connections with media artists and animatuers in Hong Kong.