Maybe the San Antonio Independent School District's new music production course will turn up the next Rick Rubin or Kanye West, producers of chart-topping hits. But mostly, school officials just want to offer students another entrée to the district's music education program and do it in a way that appeals to this technology-immersed generation. In this case, that means teaching students to replicate the kind of synthesized studio music they hear on the radio these days. Digital music production is an approach that is slowly gaining steam among educators on a national level, said Tom Rudolph, president of the Technology Institute for Music Educators, or TI:ME. The organization has about 1,000 members, most of them music educators who use technology in the classroom.
Source: MySanAntonio.com, 06/19/2008 01:37 AM CDT

Larry Stegall (Instructional Technology Services) has been working hard with Dr. David Sebald (UTSA) and the SAISD Fine Arts Office to launch the Music Technology Program.

More information was recently shared in the June 25th SAISD Newslink and in the San Antonio Express News article quoted and linked above.