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Public Learning Sites A wide range of informational and educational sites for general reference, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile

"Skype is a great way of calling people from all over the world. However, it lacks the call-record feature. One way to utilize this feature is to use the MP3 Skype Recorder program. This software can automatically record all your incoming and outgoing Skype calls. The output audio's format is MP3, so it's easy for you to listen and share the recorded call. You can use it as a podcast or as an instructional audio."

"The report found that the use of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and comics-creating software can heighten students' engagement and enhance their writing and thinking skills in all grade levels and across all subjects."

"ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're doing - ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms." possible replacement for Gabcast

shared on the la la listserv!

trakAxPC enables you to create professional music and video mixes without any special skills or technical expertise. It provides a drag and drop interface to easily add files from your computer and to record from your microphone or web cam.

Audio mixing software alternative to GarageBand. Check out the educational pricing.

windows alternative to garageband

The Podcast with a focus on education, technology, and history

Includes images, videos, podcasts, lesson plans and activities, teaching materials and more from NASA.

Lessons covering blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, and other Web 2.0 tools.

Offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students. Includes American history quizzes, letters from American wars, lesson ideas, podcasts, and more.

Convert your voice to text, create podcasts, create audio greetings,and more.

Video clips and podcasts for all types of science. Careful, though...includes dissections of the human body that are graphic.

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 the 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

Music and audio files.

Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads