Ed Tech Crew 125 - Music Madness

Podcast number 125 - May 17th 2010

[Running time: 1:01:53, size: 53.7 MB]

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Interview with special Guest: Katie Wardrobe
Midnight Music
www.midnightmusic.com.au
www.musictechtips.wordpress.com
Twitter: @katiesw1

Other sites: www.mtec2011.com
(Music tech in education conference)

Katie's Links
Audio editing:
Audacity (the Swiss Army knife of audio editing tools!) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Acid Xpress http://www.acidplanet.com/
Myna (one of the tools made by Aviary. Myna is a Web2.0 browser-based
app) http://aviary.com/tools/myna

Notation (sheet music):
Musescore http://www.musescore.org
Noteflight http://www.noteflight.com
(Noteflight is a web2.0 tool that runs in your browser, like Google docs - good for collaborative compositions)

IWB music apps:
Lots of good free ones on http://themusicinteractive.com

Music Theory and History:
http://www.musictheory.net/
http://www.dolmetsch.com/introduction.htm

Fun/useful websites (work well on IWBs):
Tone matrix - composition tool http://inudge.net/
Drum machine - http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/#
Beatboxing/a cappella singing - http://www.incredibox.fr/
Music games for primary students - http://www.nyphilkids.org/games/main.phtml?
Ball Droppings (music and physics combined) http://www.balldroppings.com/js/

Music education blog aggregator
http://musicednews.com/

Listener Feedback
ScienceHouse
http://www.sciencehouse.com/videoscience-experiments.html

Science Animation
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/download_animations.html

PinDax from Marc Blanks
PinDax offers a fun real-time alternative to the traditional message board.
http://www.pindax.com

News from Online
New Google Search Look
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-design-turned-up-notch.html

Google eBooks
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/google-to-launch-e-books/story-e6frg90x-1225862488266?referrer=email&source=AIT_email_nl&emcmp=Ping&emchn=Newsletter&emlist=Member

Cloudbrowse for the ipod and ipod touch
http://www.alwaysontechnologies.com/cloudbrowse/

Events:
Scratch day this Saturday May 22nd.
Scratch wins funding http://www.dmlcompetition.net/year_3/winners.php

IWB Challenge - Jess McCulloch
http://iwbchallenge.wikispaces.com/

Slide to Learn 1-2 July
http://slidetolearn.ning.com/