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Training Training EventsConferences, Presentations and Demonstrations Press Room Training EventsPhiladelphia, PAPeriodically Dancing Dots offers training seminars in the Philadelphia area. The class is open to both blind and sighted people. Select from the following two-day courses: Learn music scanning editing and automatic braille music transcription using GOODFEEL. Learn to independently create, edit and produce multi-track sound recordings with a PC using MIDI and audio with our JAWS-based access solution to Cakewalk SONAR called CakeTalking. Learn to produce publishing-quality music notation with our JAWS-based access solution for the Sibelius notation software called Sibelius Speaking. Learn to read and write basic braille music notation. Tuition ($750 for 1 person or $1,250 for two people from the same organization) includes two full days of training, lodging (for the first 8 people), continental breakfast and lunch. Possible Training Dates:Contact us to schedule your training. Call 610-783-6692 or e-mail Dancing Dots for more information and to make reservations. One-On-One TrainingDancing Dots can provide a training specialist to conduct one-on-one, on-site training in your home, school or office. For example, you can learn how to get the most out of your home studio, how to print your music theory assignments, how to read braille music. You can receive training on using all of the products we sell and support including CakeTalking for SONAR, Sibelius with Sibelius Speaking, SharpEye. Lime and GOODFEEL, not to mention more mainstream assistive technology such as JAWS, OpenBook and Duxbury. You can also get training in the use of JAWS for school, business or home. Learn tips and tricks for customizing and using popular applications like MS Word, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. Our standard rate is $95 per hour plus trainer's travel expenses. Contact us to discuss your needs and we will build a training plan that works for you. If it has anything to do with music, braille, sound recording or standard Windows software, we can teach you how to use it or a more accessible alternative! A Dream Come TrueI just want to thank you for making it possible for Gordon to come down and spend some time to teach me how to use CakeTalking for Sonar. What a great time we had! Learning how to use such a wonderful product, which, in turn, allows me to use my Roland keyboard that I've had sitting around, is a dream come true. When I put together a few parts for a portion of one of the songs I had played in church, I experienced a joy that I hadn't felt in a long time. My goal is to learn how to use CakeTalking for Sonar and to be able to use it in future church work. Thank you again for your hard work in putting together the new system in such a short time and for making the trip possible. Another Happy CustomerThe CakeTalking for SONAR tutorial is terrific. Finally, got me close to the program. However, I called Dancing Dots on a whim and asked if there were any other training available... could I pay them to come to my site and teach me CakeTalking for Sonar, and Sonar itself? They said sure and for a very reasonable charge they sent one of their experts to my place. I met Gordon Kent of Dancing Dots. What a great couple days we spent. He is spectacular! The whole experience was SO worth it. I learned more in the time we spent together than I could have learned in weeks and months by myself just poking around... and I may not have even learned anything close to the wide array of things we covered. Gordon is an outstanding musician and engineer. He solved every problem, showed me every trick I wanted to know, went from the very most basic of things up through some very esoteric stuff. (By the time we were done he had me assigning faders on my keyboard so that I could control the audio level of a track manually! Very cool.) Anyway just wanted to let everyone know what a great resource and opportunity this is. My background is very varied, and he was able to deal with it. I have also just recently lost my sight, so I'm just learning everything all over again from JAWS on up. All in all, I'm sure I presented _real_ challenges to this poor man. In any case, he dealt with the things I do know and the things I don't know, equally well, letting me interrupt, change topics, zoom ahead, fall back and retry, etc., going all at my very own and I'm sure exhausting (and sometimes frustrating) pace. It was a perfect learning experience. Just so completely worth the money, I can't tell you how happy I am. I hope to have Mr. Kent back again soon, after I practice what I've learned so far. Conferences, Presentations and DemonstrationsAt these conferences we will be demonstrating our GOODFEEL® Braille Music Translator with Lime Notation, music scanning, Cakewalk and CakeTalking and Sibelius Speaking. Visitors can also see the TACK-TILES® teaching aid for braille music.
Witness demonstrations of technologies from Dancing Dots that offers solutions to three of the principal challenges which confront blind
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January 28, 2009: Pre-Conference seminar, 8 am to 4 pm. Continental breakfast and boxed lunches are provided for registered attendees and presenters.
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