Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
Enjoy free music without getting in trouble by downloading the legal MP3s many musicians provide as a way to promote themselves.
By Michael David Crawford
You don't need to worry about getting sued by the Recording Industry Assocation of America or arrested by the FBI if you download legal music. Many independent and unsigned musicians offer downloads of their music in hopes of attracting more fans. Here's some music from my friends Oliver Brown and Rick Walker's Loop.pooL as well as my own piano compositions.
Play JamParty is for all ages, all abilities, and all levels - beginner to advanced. It is a musical sandbox where even beginners can discover their own musical creativity.
Create Create your own original music for multimedia projects, poetry, lyrics, dance routines, and much more.
Share Turn your original music into an mp3 with a click of a button, use a screen recorder to record a video of your jam, and share your jam on a social network.
Learn Learn about musical/sound awareness, rhythm, song structure, etc.
and More: See how other educators plan to use JamParty at school.
No need to learn the aesthetics of movie making or wade through a complicated user interface. Tracking shot will create a movie instantly and automatically by grouping photos into scenes and shots, creating transitions, synchronizing with the music, and more. All you need to do is upload your photos and music - it couldn't be easier. Photos & music... ...instant movies.
via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/07/quickly-create-music-video-on-tracking.html
NOT Free
Soundzabound is the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education!
Soundzabound Royalty Free Music supersedes Fair Use in that we fully license the music with unlimited rights for education and sign off that you are protected. Fair Use has limitations in use and states that you are liable should there be a claim. Soundzabound also provides the solutions for:
* Education Approved Content in a searchable database
* Artist branding rights not covered under Fair Use
* User statistic reports
* Web-based interface formatted for all your production purposes
In the classroom, classical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn. and meet national and state standards. They are based on National Standards for the Arts and state Academic Content Standards for Music, as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The materials also incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly.
History Happens is a collection of music videos about characters from American history. Our goal is to inform and inspire young people that an individual can make a difference--as evidenced by the many acts of courage, endurance and passion that make up the American story. These music videos can be used as a platform for all kinds of innovative, multi-disciplinary, project-based teaching/learning experiences. To learn more about our programs, please feel free to contact us by telephone or email.
We retain the copyright, but so long as it is not resold you are welcome to use music here in virtually any way you want. We simply ask that we are correctly credited in your production, under a Creative Commons License.
Via Tim Childers
Now supports ePub books from the library!!!!
"Download OverDrive Media Console v2.0 for Android or iPhone today!
* Read Adobe® EPUB eBooks.
* Find libraries using the new 'Get Books' feature.
* Listen to MP3 Audiobooks.
Choose OverDrive Media Console for your computer or mobile device…
* Download content on your Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, or Windows Mobile device.
* Play audiobooks on Mac & Windows (plus music & video on Windows).
* Burn audio to CD on Windows & Mac.
* Transfer titles from Windows & Mac to most devices."
The Kid Should See This.
There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
But we don't underestimate kids around here.
With a huge range of new features and functionality, including one-click upload to YouTube (with support for YouTube HD), instant file conversion, Video Credits and Text, automatic crossfading for quick mixes, collaging (Picture-in-Picture), and support for all popular file formats (MPEG-4 / H.264, AAC, MP3 etc.), trakAxPC is the only multimedia application you'll need.
"TeacherPlus Account
A single teacher account gets unlimited access to all GoAnimate4Schools features, The teacher can also post animations to GoAnimate4Schools public gallery.
Students accounts have access to following features:
- Make animation up to 2 minutes long
- Upload own music
- Text-to-voice and voice recording "
Kids these days have it all-their own laptops, cell phones, music players, and even digital cameras. A new report from the NPD Group says that use of these devices has grown by an "impressive" rate among 4 to 14 year olds, and that their usage is even changing over time as technology matures.
Did you know the Library provides podcasts of some of its presentations and online resources? Listen to book festival presentations, material on music and its impact on the brain and oral history interviews with African Americans who provide first-person accounts of the hardships of the slave plantations and of life during and after slavery. Download the audio recording and a transcript of the program to your iPod, other portable media player, or to your computer from the Library of Congress website. You may choose to automatically download this and subsequent episodes via a free subscription from the Library's podcast website or through Apple iTunes.