Digital Media Music Ed 2014

Every minute, the world's 2 billion Internet users upload staggering volumes of data to the web: an estimated 200 billion emails, 48 hours of YouTube videos, 684,478 posts on Facebook. And then there's Tweets, Instagram photos, text messages and blog posts.

FRONTLINE explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media - and how big brands are increasingly co-opting young consumers' digital presences.

Songs for unusual creatures - examples of an existing project demonstrating songs related to unusual creatures.

Songs for unusual creatures

Drawings of animals as a composition prompt for new animals.

Drawings of animals as a composition prompt for new animals.

Research report on snails as a possible catalyst for composing music for new animals.

PLAY!!!!

In this clip, it appears that the DJ used Serato Live to program clips from records into the midi controller pad. Then he integrated use of the records in with the pad and added effects through knobs on the midi controller. This video was definitely a production so I am not sure if everything he did all happened in the time the lapsed during the video or if some of it was pre-recorded. Anyway, it showed how compatible many of these programs are. Ableton definitely adds a different layer of possibilities to traditional scratching.

Place where kids can learn electronic and DJ music production tools.

Produces Ableton 101 materials. Has taught children, youth, and prisoners to use Ableton.

YouTube Channel

Mashups

Perhaps not directly related to COTA, but nevertheless, this guy has created a directory of resources for content curation, many of which look to be beneficial.

Great ideas and suggestions of uses for QR codes in the classroom applicable to all ages and levels.

This is a demonstration of realtime augmented reality.