Charanga

Charanga is a specialist music education IT company highly unique in being education led rather than technology driven.

Founded in 1996 by Royal College of Music graduate, Mark Burke and Paul Fletcher, one of the UK’s leading computer scientists specialising in educational technology.

Charanga has a 10-year proven track record in successfully designing and delivering websites, online and offline music learning software applications, and interactive content.

From its Design Council award-winning Music Coach software and sales of over 2 million interactive courses in the UK and US, to its pioneering eLearning website development partnerships with over 30 Local Authorities, Charanga designs websites, interactive content and software that people enjoy using on a daily basis.

Central to Charanga’s sustained success is a vertical skill set which provides deep audience knowledge, robust technical design and development, and leading-edge technology know-how. This unique blend of expertise enables Charanga to optimise educational, media asset value, community-building, marketing and communications functions across all its developments.

Charanga has fully embraced the latest advances in web technology to roll-out its eLearning platform. Built using the Ruby on Rails framework for rapid application development and using the jQuery Javascript framework for AJAX interactions and dynamic page animations, the eLearning platform is a “web 2.0” website. Charanga’s in-house skills encompass the latest bleeding-edge technologies and frameworks; Adobe Flex, CakePHP, Django, jQuery, Prototype, Ruby on Rails and Symfony.

Thousands of schools are using our product every day. Why not read what everyone is saying about Charanga or contact us for more information.

T: +44 1273 823900
F: +44 1273 730895

WELB Music Service Interactive

Welcome to Western Education and Library Board (WELB) Music Service Interactive – developed in partnership with award-winning eLearning experts Charanga.

At WELB Music Service we believe music making should be inclusive and accessible to all pupils, whatever their talents or background. Whether you’re a specialist music teacher looking for specific resources or a non-specialist looking for lesson ideas, our interactive eLearning website is here to make your job easier.

WELB  Music Service Interactive is a unique eLearning library of thousands of state of the art ICT music resources for use with interactive whiteboards, projectors and classroom PCs.

Access to these resources is normally by annual subscription to the Music Service. However, this year as part of our ongoing program of support for music education in WELB, and thanks to funding from ‘Achieving Derry - Bright Futures’ this invaluable resource is absolutely FREE of charge to schools in the Derry City Council area and for use by all WELB instrumental tutors.

Contact us now to claim your free login.

Booking Hotline

Phone: 028 8225 6858

Email: mary_quinn@welbni.org

Fax: 028 8224 0797

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