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Eclectic Technology
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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You have students creating projects that will include music, so where do you go to find music that is permissable to use, esp. if the final project will be posted on YouTube or Vimeo? This post provides information on 3 sites that are easy to use and have royalty-free music that students may use. Lessons which involve the potential of using copyrighted material is great time to teach students about ethical use of such materials. Many of our students believe that they may post videos with copyrighted materials, but such videos will be stripped of the music when uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo, and the accounts may be suspended. 
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Many believe that Alan Lomax was the key person who has saved much of folk music from oblivion. Traveling the globe, he recorded folk musicians in their natural habitat...and these recording are being are beginning to be streamed this month from the Cultural Equity website. Lomax said “The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.” These songs are a part of our heritage.
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PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia™ is free for educators.
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The Mission statement of Assistive Media is "to contribute to the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standards for people with disabilities by producing and providing free-of-charge previously published journalistic and short subject literary works in easily accessible spoken-word audio through the highest standards of nonprofit service." (Image from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2352)
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The Exploratorium has just "released Sound Uncovered, its second free iPad app, which the creators showed me during a visit to the unfinished museum. As I explored the app's exhibits, the tablet disappeared in my hands. When you launch this app, you're in the museum, no matter where you are...It takes 40 years of user experience wizardry to build a museum app this amazing."
Beth Dichter's insight:
The Exploratorium now has two free apps for the iPad. The first one released is Color Uncovered and now Sound Uncovered. According to this post "both "buffet-style" collections of short, multi-sensory exhibits. You can select from a table of contents or swipe through like a magazine. The first was Color Uncovered, which uses properties of the tablet's display to demonstrate properties of light. The new app, Sound Uncovered, uses both the speakers and microphones, as well as text and video explanations, to show off some of the surprisingly bizarre properties of sound." I have found many wonderful resources on the Exploratorium website, and suspect that both these apps would be great to have on iPads used in schools.
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I shared a very successful collaboration between our Art teacher and Language Arts teacher in a previous post titled Transliteracy: QR Codes and Art as well as at several conferences and workshops I was leading in the past few months.
Mitsch Krumm's curator insight,
November 26, 2014 5:56 AM
We, The Voice of Barcelona recently took part in several workshops for optimizing the quality of our audio guides. See, hear and download the results @ www.thevoiceofbarcelona.com (Pia)
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In creating the platform for sharing audio, SoundCloud has built a top teaching tool that can bring a new level of engagement to your class.
tim parks's curator insight,
October 11, 2014 8:31 PM
Soundcloud is a very powerful tool. It gives people the option to post their music for anyone to hear. 
Rafael San Inocencio's curator insight,
October 10, 2015 10:21 AM
SoundCloud is a great source for more things than just music. While searching through soundcloud you can find podcasts and talks, so I don't see why they couldn't use it's powers for teaching, I think this is a cool idea.
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"Before I delve into the content of this post...I want to share this video created by students at Robin Hood primary school in Birmingham. This video sums up the purpose of this po..."
stephanorangel's curator insight,
November 20, 2014 4:11 PM
I have been using these tools with my students in order to improve their speaking. I give them an English text and they have to record it during the week (It's a weekly activity). After that they bring the mp3 file to class and I correct it and they receive feedback. Later, the original audio of the text is given to them and they study to record again. They really enjoy it !!! 
Aaron Prentice's curator insight,
November 3, 2015 5:42 AM
Audacity
Audacity is free cross platform, open source software for recording and editing sound.
Great for recording students assessments. Students are motivated by end of unit recordings. It is free and is a great tool for teachers to listen back to performances when marking them.
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CK-12, a website that provides free materials for educators and students across grade levels. This link goes to a new series of physics simulations. However, if you work with students and are interested in finding great free resources that include video, text, audio, images, quizzes and interactives then it is worth your time to explore CK-12.