MAGPI K20 Spring Video Conferencing Programs

There are more and more opportunities for schools to connect with people from all over the world and learn things they would never have access to without video conferencing technology. I helped set up a connection at Wichita State University to the program listed below on the Australian Didgeridu instrument and it was a great hit!!

MAGPI provides links to many other great programs. Check out their schedule by clicking the link in the title of this post and open a window to the world in your classroom!

The Didgeridu : Exploring the Dreamtime with Jim Gagnon
Sponsored by St. Francis University Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas

DATE: April 3, 2006
TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
TARGET AGE GROUP: High School Students/College and University Students
COST:Â Free!

DESCRIPTION:
This exciting videoconference event will combine historical and cultural information about the indigenous Australian instrument, the Didgeridu, as well as live performance. Jim Gagnon and accompanist Jim Donovan (Founding member of the multi-platinum selling band Rusted Root and current Saint Francis University Instructor of Music) will give this interactive presentation. A question/answer session will follow the Performance/Lecture.

ABOUT JIM GAGNON
Jim Gagnon was born and raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh called, "Oakmont". He enlisted in the U.S. Navy for four years, where he toured the Mediterranean Sea twice, and was actually on the scene for the first gulf war. After the Navy, Jim attended and graduated from the Edgar Cayce School in Virginia Beach in '05, where he studied different modes of healing, meditation, yoga, and energy work. It was here that Jim became interested in drumming as a means of exploration and healing. During this time Jim began making didgeridus, and teaching classes and workshops. Gagnon is a free-lance writer, cultural music enthusiast, painter, and producer of four CDs, the latest being "The Great Dance", by his group Dreamtime Project. He currently lives with his 8 year old son, Isaiah, in Charlottesville, Va.