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DAR.fm, a Web site that lists every single radio show on every one of 1,800 AM and FM stations across the country. (It stands for Digital Audio Recorder.) You can search, sort, slice and dice those listings any way you want: by genre, by radio station, by search phrase. It's all here: NPR, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. Music shows. Talk shows. Religion, sports, technology. Politics by the pound.

"Companies who want to know more about prospective employees can learn a lot by checking their Facebook profiles, according to a new study. Jennifer Golbeck and colleagues at the University of Maryland surveyed the public profiles of nearly 300 Facebook users for information about their favourite activities, TV shows, movies, music, books, quotes, and membership in political or other organisations. They also looked at the "About Me" and "blurb" sections. The work did not include status updates or other data that is only available to users' online friends."

"With support from the Governor 's Productivity Investment Fund and the Virginia Department of Education, Radford University and participating schools in southwestern Virginia are exploring how the iPod Touch can be used to enhance effective teaching and learning. The last several years have seen an explosion in the amount of young people playing video games as well as the number of children and adolescents using mobile handheld technologies, such as portable music players, gaming platforms, and smart phones. As school systems struggle with how best to deal with this cultural and technological shift, it is highly likely that the technology will continue to progress towards more powerful, wireless handheld computers that can deliver high quality, multimedia, computer processing power. Viewing this phenomenon as neither a panacea nor a plague, the iLearn team is exploring if and how these technologies can be leveraged for enhanced learning. "

Tony Vincent's great Youtube tutorial "Basics for using Audacity software to record your voice and add intro music."

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

"Up until earlier, I wasn't all that interested in the iPad Camera Connection Kit. However, I learned that one of the attachments can be used to hook up musical instruments and microphones to your device. Now that is seriously cool. However, it has other uses, as I discovered today! With the camera kit, you can plug many USB headsets right into the USB port of the iPad. Certain USB keyboards apparently work, as well."

Free authoring tool to create synthesized voice podcasts from text. Copy and paste text into voice synthesizer and add background music. Create study material to improve memory retention. Free tool.

Buy YouTube Accounts Introduction Registered users can upload, view, and share videos on YouTube for free. The biggest online video website in the world today is YouTube, which was started in 2005. From animal videos to food demonstrations to music videos, you can find films on just about any subject. What Is a YouTube Accounts? Registered users can upload, watch, and share videos on YouTube, which is a free website. The biggest online video website in the planet was established in 2005 and is called YouTube. Anything from animal videos to cookery demonstrations to music videos may be found online. Buy YouTube Accounts You'll need a Google account in order to sign up for a YouTube account. You can open a free Google account if you don't already have one. When you visit YouTube, click the "Sign In" button in the top right-hand corner after creating a Google account. You can then establish a YouTube account from there.

Gangman style minecraft paraody.

3DTOAD.com is 3D/360 website that allows parents, students and teachers free access to 3D images of a variety of educational subjects. Items that once could be viewed only in the classroom are now available 24 hours a day via any internet connection. Images presented for viewing are selected jointly by Techtol Imaging LLC as well as Ohio Universities and Colleges.

Interactive 3D animation/visualisations e.g. dissections, skeletons, molecules, geology ... & yoga!

Might be an idea to to check things before using with younger students ... cat dissection warning!

"Discovr Apps is an interactive map of the App Store and makes it easy to discover new apps for your iPhone & iPad. Simply search for an app that you like or choose from one of our featured apps. We'll show you how the apps you choose are connected in a massive, never-ending map of the App Store, and we'll give you great recommendations for other apps to download."