LoopLabs is one of the many new Music Application in the cloud sites that offers the ability to upload and remix music online. Some pretty heavy names have been users including: Bacardi DJ, Lebron James/Sprite, ESPN, Microsoft, Sony/PSP, Calvin Klein, Miller Brewing, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Dodge, Toyota, Maverick Records and many more. Check it out at LoopLabs
If you or your students find creating accurate bibliographies complicated try using Easybib or NoodleTools. Both make creating a bibliography a snap.Both come recommended and use several accepted bibliography formatting.
My students and I have found it very convenient and practical to create Google docs online with
others and work as a team to build study resources. I have seen other online web 2.0 apps that do something similar but Catch has delivered that same sharing flexibility yet has a much better appearance.
Catch lets you keep your notes private or invite friends and fellow students and/or teachers to contribute.
In the classroom it is great for getting students to prepare study notes and prepare for a test. Catch makes a wonderful review module.
And as a music teacher being able to include audio files is a wonderful and welcome addition. Catch
Free Technology for Teachers has pulled together a great post of 7 wonderful applications that music educators and students can all use to enjoy and learn about music. They are all well worth looking at and incorporating into your classroom teaching. Check them out!
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I am amazed I haven’t heard of these apps before. I attended a Try It On Monday tech seminar in Tokyo and one of the presenters was introducing two different apps that I found so interesting and ultimately useful for education. The first is great for creating collaborative mindmapping clouds and is called “Text 2 Mindmap”. You can create a beautiful mindmap and save as a pic file. The best thing is that it can be collaborative.
The second app is called Mind42. This one I found particularly intriguing. It is an elegant way to create a lesson that is multi media oriented. It is also great if you would like to post your lesson afterwards on a web site. The visual mapping display can link: docs, youtubes, and sound files. The end result is a beautiful and clean display of pods that you can enter as you see fit. You can start a lesson with them all closed and open them one at a time. You could assign different students to make a pod of their own that is added to the whole. I like posting a lot of sites and info that are related to a topic as I find them. I like mind42 for this purpose as I can link everything there and then open them only when and if I need the info during a lecture. I think I will be using this app a lot in the future.
Yet another app for mind mapping is MindMeister. It is similar to the other. With this one you can collaborate as well as share and connect with your iPad or iPhone.
If you are looking for a fun year end music lesson try introducing your students to a wonderful music training site called “Theta Music Trainer“. My kids loved the interactive music games. This group of games includes some of the most useful music interactive games I have seen. Train your ear to tune an instrument, hear rhythms, recorgnize chords and intervals. Many other games have been offered on these topics but I find these particularly useful. It would be great if there was a way students could send their progress to their teacher.
You can also read a press release on it HERE on PRWeb
I will be following up shortly with some feedback from my Middle and High School music students.
I love to share great resources and thanks to a post from a fellow music teacher Ms. Sarah Powers. The site name is Road Ready Cases and is an good collection that can be used in your music classroom. Resources are broken down into easy to find categories. I use many and there are also some new gems. See what you think at Road Ready Cases.
When I start laying out a project I usually like to start with small recipe cards with ideas or words on them and then I try to rearrange them into the best order. From there I start my project.
Another thing I do is keep little post it notes on my computer. I have lists on my Google homepage. I have an idea pad. All of these things to keep track of my thoughts and ideas.
Well now I can do it online with ThoughtBoxes. It is a wonderfully simple application that allows you to do just as the name implies. You make boxes with ideas in them and you can rearrange them into lists or orders or to do lists whatever you want. Try it out and I guarantee you will be hooked.
I just organized a storyboard for a film I am making with ThoughtBoxes. It was a snap. Just moved around the story ideas on my screen until everything was in place. ThoughtBoxes application for getting yourself organized.
MuseAmi. No that is not some villain peering out from behind that iPad. It is Robert Taub a concert pianist and new CEO that has performed from Carnegie Hall to concert halls around the world. He wanted to help his daughter with her music. I guess she was having trouble figuring out the right rhythms and notes to play. It gave him an idea for a new software that could play sheet music so that a student could hear the music the way it is suppose to be played. It is available from MuseAmi.
Well he succeeded according to an article I read in the New York Times Online. It looks like it could be very useful for many upcoming musicians. Check it out here.
Here is another article on the software that I found in the Wall Street Journal Blogs
Here are some site connections and information I have found to be helpful for teaching music.
Technologies and Resources for Music Educators
Music Tech for Teachers 