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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;">I am the music director at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. We are currently in the research phase of a project to build a Music Technology Lab at our school. We have secured a 20 x 13 room for full-time use for our lab, and are working on getting quotes to then find funding. I'm hoping that you might be able to recommend any equipment and software that's
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;">I need to add that I am VERY technologically-challenged! :-) We do have a committee working on this, though. We currently have a Performing Arts Technology class that meets daily for credit, taught by another teacher. This project started out with our desire to create a piano lab to meet our growing student interest in piano lessons. However, we now want to expand it to create a full music tech. lab where we can also move the digital recording equipment and intro. our general music classes (with piano lab, podcasting, etc.) We have only a few students who are currently learning the braille music code. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;">If you can help with any suggestions or advice, I would be so grateful! Thank you so much for your time.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;">Leslie Costello</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;">Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;"><a href="http://teachers.fsdb.k12.fl.us/~costellol/" target="_blank">http://teachers.fsdb.k12.fl.us/~costellol/</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#800000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#800000;"><a href="http://teachers.fsdb.k12.fl.us/~costellol/" target="_blank">http://teachers.fsdb.k12.fl.us/~costellol/</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Please note: Florida has a very broad public records law. Most written communications to or from state officials regarding state business are considered to be public records and may be made available to the public and media upon request.</font></div>
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