PODCAST

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The Podcast








The Script

MUSIC: Technology News Intro

WILL: First there was guitar hero, an interactive guitar that let you rock hours of your day away.
Next there was Rockband, an interactive guitar, drum, and microphone that allowed you lead an entire interactive band.
Now thanks to TCNJ professors Teresa Naukra and Chris Ault, you can party like it’s 1455 with the new Virtual Maestro Conducting Kiosk.
According to the creators, the game allows you to interactively control of a full orchestra with a Nintendo Wii remote.
The Wii remote allows users to control the entire orchestra just as a real conductor would.
You can conduct the orchestra to play faster or slower, and louder and softer all in order have the orchestra play a masterpiece together.
Dr. Naukra originally designed an earlier version of this game for the Boston Children’s Museum to give children a real life look into what it is like to conduct an orchestra.
Naukra was soon contacted by sponsors who wanted to turn this platform into a more user-friendly version for the general public.
That is where Chris Ault and the Nintendo Wii remote came into play. Ault is an assistant professor of interactive media at TCNJ and his job was to connect the game with the Nintendo Wii platform.
Together they created nothing short of a masterpiece.
Ault and Naukra are hoping to integrate more technology like this into TCNJ’s music department.
The Kiosk is not currently for sale although there are two copies making their way around the United States and Europe over the next year.
You experience this interactive masterpiece hands on at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center until April 15.

MUSIC: Orchestra Outro

TCNJ's Budget is in a crisis

Tomorrow at 12:30 myself and Meghan Kennedy will be unveiling our 2 minute news piece on TCNJ's newest budget cuts. This will give all who are in attendance a glimpse into the state's recent budget cuts plus a few reactions from students around campus. See you all in class.

My nightmare's have come true......I'm a blogger

Congratulations! You are reading my very first blog, for my first blog I am going to give you a brief overview of who I am. Like most bloggers I have absolutely no credentials for what I am writing, except the part about myself (some regard me as the top scholar in that particular field) so that is where I will begin. I am a junior communication studies major at The College of New Jersey (no not Rutgers, THE COLLEGE). I was born and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire, a small town where there are only two seasons, winter and preparing for winter. To describe how I was raised would take many volumes of leather bound books, but since I only have this blog I'll give you a little glimpse. My mother has always supported me in everything, except when I ate an entire box of captain crunch in one sitting when I was seven. My father also supported me in everything I did and was always there to make sure I never took anything too seriously. Except the time in fourth grade when he got in an argument with a referee in my basketball game, and when the ref asked him if he thought he could do a better job he not only answered yes but he also proceeded to ref the rest of the game.......we won that game. I have one older brother, Jack, who traveled to the south and has been held captive by the confederate army ever since. And I have one older sister, Hannah, she has given me extensive training my whole life to never to talk back to girls. Also I have a dog, Penny Lane, Penny is my father's favorite child. I now live in New Jersey, where I learned a new definition of being stuck in traffic. I go to school, play a lot of golf, and currently I am writing my very first blog, and here you are reading it. Congratulations on making through my very first blog I hope you enjoyed it as much as I have.