A terrific Ning for those of us who wish to continue pursuing these 2.0 tools. Every Wednesday and Saturday they broadcast / podcast live interviews on topics of interest.
Some of the ideas in this site remind me of a project I did a couple of years back with some gifted 7th graders in composition. Basically, they made a portfolio of their own "loop" compositions from the time they spent creating it on Acid 5 (a music loop-editing program) Sonar, and Audacity and from the chatting they did online using Blackboard (web 2.0) as a tool. If I had to do it today, I could probably work it out in large measure using wikispaces.
This site comes through Thinkfinity and this puts a music site out there for the group to check out. Thinkfinity looks like its rich resources will come in handy. When doing a music search on Thinkfinity, I typed in the key words music education and left all other drop down menus read ALL because it yielded better results for the music teacher as such. In a web 2.0 situation where I am working with a group, I can give multiple assignment choices to provoke diversity and interest.
While the main purpose of the site are some technology sites that will help with writing, take a look at the Sidebar Sites. They are really worth looking at. By the way, if you're not subscribed to edudemic, think about doing so.
A Site worth looking at for Elementary, Special Education, and ELL students. Some of the tools might be a bit pricey. Look at the Blog and seriously think about an RSS feed. The links to resources are awesome.
