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Over the last few years the FCC has began to reshuffle the way it hands out licenses for the wireless radio spectrum. The most notable of these has been the transition to digital television from the old style analog TV, but now this transition may bite your music program in a way you had not expected. Certain wireless microphone systems will now be illegal to use under the new rules. Will the airwave police come battering down your office door the next time you use your school or church's wireless microphone system? 
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Like most band directors I have had many students with special needs in my marching band program over the years. From the most minor of issues to more serious ones the most important thing for these students was simply being able to have the opportunity to be a part of the band and have fun making music. Regardless of the student's abilities just having them in the program was blessing on many levels both for me and for the student. In a recent issue of the NEA Magazine I happened across an article titled Six Miles in Pasadena. It tells the story of a very unique marching band from Ohio, one that after years of hard work and effort finally made it to Pasadena, California to march in the 2010 Parade of Roses. 
I was weed whacking through my bookmarks list yesterday and got to thinking about all of these hundreds of web based resources that we as music educators have available to us. I was wondering, what are the web sites that you most commonly use to prepare for or to help teach your classes? Are there any sites or software tools that stand out in your mind as those that every music educator should use? Are there some out there that you think are being underutilized but that really are helpful to you as an individual?
This weekend I received two new books to review and then add to the list of prizes for the MusicEdMagic Anniversary Giveaway! I am already digging into them and hope to have a review up sometime this week on both of them. For now, take a look at the prize list and see the newly added titles.