Examples of and resources for creating rubrics.

A site outlining authentic assessment including: - What is authentic assessment? - How does authentic assessment differ from traditional assessment? - Why use authentic assessment? - How do you do integrate authentic assessment? - How does authentic assessment connect to standards? - What are authentic tasks for assessment? - How can one use rubrics for authentic assessment? - What are portfolios and how might they be used in authentic assessment?

MENC Assessment Special Research Interest Group: Society for Research in Music Education - includes news and resources related to research on assessment in music education

"Tara Brabazon talks with Elizabeth van de Sande about her deployment of podcasting in high school teaching. Liz discusses the function of podcasting in assessment, reflection on assessment and the creation of confidence in students. "

series of tutorials on YouTube for Pure Data

"This document is designed to offer guidance to researchers interested in obtaining digital audio recording equipment for conducting ethnographic fieldwork. It is primarily focused on the needs of folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and oral historians, although anthropologists and anyone working in an ethnographic discipline or conducting ethnographic research will find some information of use here."

If you have ever been, or ever think you might be intested in capturing/copying files directly from your HD camcorder, merging/joining camcorder videos (AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MOD, TOD) without recoding, or splitting/cutting files with frame accuracy, or just want to backup your MTS files in short time, and even export different file formats in one conversion project, you certainly want to take a look at Aunsoft Final Mate. Aunsoft Final Mate, as an entry-level and necessary camcorder assistant software, focuses on making it easy in some very useful functions for HD camcorder users like lossless MKV output just in several seconds, camcorder wizard (For quickest and easiest video capture/backup), lossless merge (For joining file without conversion or no loss of quality), timeline-oriented editing, frame accurate cutting/splitting, video crop, volume up/down, audio replacement, color correction, deinterlace, camcorder video conversion (As powerful as MTS/M2TS Converter), etc. With such a self-explanatory and cover-all tool, you don't have to call in a favor from a friend to make your movies shine. What's more, Final Mate is implemented NVIDIA CUDA and GPU acceleration and second-generation Intel Core optimization to ensure this camcorder assistant software application run quicker and smoother. ♦ Lossless output MKV, MTS, TOD, MOD files without recoding.♦ Get quicker converting expierence with Intel® Media SDK.♦ Split/cut videos on a timeline with frame accuracy.♦ Smart Camcorder Wizard to capture/manage videos with ease.♦ Export different format files in one convert project.

Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac, a useful camcorder software program for Mac OS X, makes it easy to backup AVCHD, TOD, MOD videos from camcorder in backstage, edit in Timeline for quick joining or splitting files, lossless output MKV movie for enjoying Full HD memories on WDTV, convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Apple ProRes 422 format or Apple Intermediate Codec for professional editing in Final Cut Pro(FCP), FCE and iMovie. Final Mate for Mac can allow you convert several videos to different formats at one time, and also provides multiple formats for enjoying your memories on portable media players including iPad®, iPhone®, and plenty of Android phones or uploading to YouTube, Facebook for sharing with family and friends. ♦ Lossless output MKV for playing on WDTV♦ Choose output settings for each movie.♦ Convert 1080/60p MTS in camcoder to Apple ProRes♦ Convert MTS, MOD, TOD files for different video players

A set of AbletonLive Tutorials. Each tutorial pack costs $.

AfroDJMac gives tutorials and downloadable abletonlive live racks

Ableton Live YouTube Channel

Nicholas Jaar speaks about his performance with AbletonLive and a live band.

Tutorials on how to create a MIDI map for Traktor

WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer may be extended by plug-ins as well as embedded in other applications.

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment. Jokosher is free

Traverso is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music! Traverso is free.

audio editing software