A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

We're writing a song for our performance project, and I've used this extensively. I've found it to be quite helpful. At first, I thought it would be dumb to post it, but after some thought I disagreed with my original notion. This tool is an example of how technology is helping songwriters network, through the use of a thesaurus and rhyming. It made the song writing process much more efficient and smoother.

I found a great article that covers music copyright issues in the classroom. Check this article out - The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action-media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media.

Automatic tuning is synonymous with many things, good and bad. We take a look at Logic's Pitch Correction and then examine what Auto-Tune can add. Here's a quick guide on how to use Logic's pitch-correction plug-in. Step one: insert it onto the audio track playing back the recording whose pitch you want to correct.

This is pretty interesting. A 5 year old kid created a hip-hop song in a 60 seconds that already has almost 700,000 hits. It's a great example of how technology is changing means of music creation.

Research shows that learning the do-re-mis can help children excel in ways beyond the basic ABCs.

In a mobile classroom - basically a trailer outfitted with a desk and some chairs - music teacher Chris Miller works with a group of active kindergartners dressed in green and khaki school uniforms. He teaches them the basics: musical concepts, artists and styles of music. "Everybody repeat after me," he says.

Hard Rock Makes Killer Mice, Teen Finds MUSIC CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO MOUSE HEALTH He may have won top regional and state science-fair honors, but probably at least some of his friends aren't talking to him.

This is a story I've always found fascinating, and I think my future students will, also. I thought I'd share it with all of you.