I was doing my weekly look around at the other music education sites that I follow when I saw Joe Pisano posting about his work with a web site called iSchoolBand that sounded kind of interesting.  I've always been a dabbler in web sites that promise to make organizing and communicating with students outside of class a more simplified task.  I've tried a bunch of alternatives, Ning, Google Groups, and others, but at least at first glance iSchoolBand actually looks like it might fit my needs a little bit better than the others I have tried in the past.

If you are interested in this topic take a look at his post about the iSchoolBand site over at MusTech.net.  He is also giving away a bunch of free promo codes to his readers that give a user one free year of access to the iSchoolBand service.  Take a look and see what you think!