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AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 20143.2 The generat ion of accessible educat ional resources in performing arts centresThe new technologies have enabled major developments to take place in the generation of resources and educational programmes that will help to create new audiences for the performing arts. Two organisations, Reseo and ROCE, bring together and share experiences between major theatres in Spain and abroad.Websites are an ideal platform to distribute this content. Many institutions reserve microsites within their website to host educational programmes and resources. The Globe and the National Theatre in London are two of the best examples we mention here.Finally, facilitating access to the performing arts for the disabled is one of the aims of any artistic institution. Thanks to the new technologies, various formulae have been adopted that improve the theatre experience for such spectators, as in the case of the Teatro Accesible that has been set up by several Spanish theatres, and which has met with great approval.EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE ORGANISERSReseo (European Network for Opera and Dance Education)http://reseo.org/An organisation that brings together all the educational departments of European opera and dance institutions. They have no projects in hand that combine educational programmes with the new technologies.AC/ERed de Organizadores de Concier-tos Educativos - ROCE (Organisersof Educat ional Concerts Network)http://www.rocemusica.org/A not-for-profit association founded in 2010 by public and private entities that share the idea that music is an educational subject of the first order in any society and that concerts and activities for schools, families and groups in society are an essential and key element of their artistic and social proposal. The association was founded with the aim of coordinating the educational activities of its members, encouraging cooperation, creating new synergies, communicating the value of its activities to society and building solid relations with the public. Their Web site contains an option for digital access to resources from “Conciertosdidácticos” (http://www.conciertosdidacticos.org/): a free access page for which registration is required and which brings together educational resources and materials structured as a multimedia and multilingual data base. Its contents are specifically related to educational activities associated with musical performance and are intended for teachers and those working in the fields of promotion, performance and management. The aim is to create a valid environment and an efficient tool to provide specialised information to enrich musical educational projects. Every year the ROCE also publishes a CD that contains, in digital format, the content of the specialised meetings that are held every year: Granada, Donostia-San Sebastián, Valladolid, Barcelona, and in 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. By 15 November 2013, www.rocemusica.org had received 177,797 visits and www.conciertosdidacticos.org had 1,083 active references, 857 registered users and had received 182,228 visits.One thinks of the development of resources based on the new technologies that substitute theFOCUS 2014: THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS3.2 THE GENERATION OF ACCESSIBLE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRES CURRENT PAGE...157