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Outstanding hour long talk by David Rose uses music as a metaphor to explain UDL concepts.

On Jamendo, artists allow anyone to share and download music. This is probably not a good place for kids to browse but handy for finding copyright free soundtracks for your projects.

Recommended by Kelley Tenkley as free and intuitive with embedded music player...haven't tried it yet.

The Week in Rap provides a weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students. Sometimes called "Weekend Rap" or "Week and Rap."

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

This free sound editor works on Mac and Windows; you need the LAME add-on to export mp3 in Windows. I have used this program for several years to change tempos and edit dance music.

What to do when kid's parents don't speak English at home: load up an i-pod with English music, stories and lessons, and send it home.

Navify is an interface for viewing Wikipedia articles with videos, music, photo galleries, and comments. One of the strategies for supporting students' recognition network is using multiple examples and using a variety of media. This resource makes it easy!

Converting sound, text and video files, video, music and documents

Sky's disabilities don't stop him from doing what he loves. Sky Mundell is a young jazz pianist who is totally blind, severely deaf, has cerebral palsy and brain damage that results in some autism like behaviors. He entered the Vancouver Island's Got Talent contest (VIGT) and was declared the winner from 84 contestants. He learns a song just by listening to it once or twice and can then play it. Despite being severely deaf he has perfect pitch. I first met Sky at CNIB summer camp and still play a CD he made of himself singing songs from the 40's. Such an honour to know this young man.

Pinky Dinky Doo harnesses the power of television, print, and interactive media to promote reading and imaginative storytelling. To achieve this, Pinky invites children to participate in funny and fantastic stories, games, and songs that support critical early literacy skills.

Very nice interface; free sound effects and loops.

This is a subscription site, but it has a free trial. BrainPOP features very engaging short animated films that teach common curriculum content. They also have BrainPOP Jr., specializing in K-3 content. The school and district pricing is posted on thei