Soundation

Soundation

This is a free way of making soundtracks for all things … comes with lots of sounds to mix in a variety of genres … worth a look if you are trying to get children to compose their own tracks rather than look around the Web for copyright-free ones to use.

Weird music

Incredibox is one of the weirdest sound generating apps I have ever come across … could be good fun then !!! (acknowledgement : @johnmayo)

Text to speech software

Vozme – from text to speech … resources such as this are in the hands of the  users

Creative Commons Digital Reources

The Blogger ‘ thecleversheep’ has produced a list of digital resources to try to make some sense out of the problems associated with copyright and digital publishing.

This is what he says about them: In an attempt to bring some order to the chaos of Creative Commons licensing, I’ve created a list of resources that educators might share with students as a starting point for all manner of creative projects. To explain a bit about each resource, I’ve appended a 3 word summary to each CC tools/resource. The podcast explains how teachers might leverage these resources to teach students about the Creative Commons...

Free Nursery Rhymes and Listening Resources

From the people who do ‘Storyphones’:

I thought that you might be interested to know that we have some free nursery rhymes and other listening resources available on our website. These can be downloaded and used by practitioners regardless of whether they have StoryPhones or not. The link for these is http://www.storyphones.co.uk/resources/downloads.html. I would be grateful if you could pass this on to any schools, nurseries or childminders in your area who might find these useful.

Join in … you know you want to …

The World Science Festival has some superb stuff to offer but it was this little clip that took my attention … thanks to ‘lisibo’ for the tweet on this.

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale