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This is a lovely downloadable programme to compose pieces of music on a digital stave which will play you creations back to you. Just drag the note and rests into the positions you want. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Learn to play guitar with this beautifully designed site. Work through the lessons using your own guitar along with your computer's microphone so the site can interact with you as you play in real time. The site will even help you tune it. If you haven't got a guitar to hand, you can use the on-screen virtual guitar. The course is designed for beginners, but lessons progress quickly. The site seems to work best on Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

This is a truly amazing iPad app and 'soon to be launched' download for PCs which replaces a whole TV crew and studio. Capture your video and audio use like adjusting the sound levels, an in-build teleprompter and green screen effects to make spectacular footage. Edit your video directly in the app and add images, websites and Twitter feed as cutaways sections of the screen. You can publish online and export to YouTube. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast/id603258418 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

A nice iOS/Android/Windows app for creating stop-motion animation. The basics are free allowing you to record and add sound to your animation and to export it in many formats and places. In-app purchases available to allow you to do more if required.

Displays can take up vast areas of wall space and many hours of adults' time, therefore teachers and leaders must be sure of the impact that they are having on learning so that what is on display is justified and not simply a waste of time and space.  Put simply, before a display goes up, we must ask: What will this display do to improve outcomes for children?  For this to be answered with any sort of reliability, the question must be framed within a sound knowledge of how children learn and what learning is - a change in long-term memory...

This is a really simple flash-based audio recorder. Just press record, listen and download or share the link. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

This is a fun musical resource. Place your dots on the window and see the rings expand and interact to make music. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Strike a chord with your students by doing some virtual strumming with this superb guitar chord player. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

A great simple music search engine that streams free music from Grooveshark up an uncluttered page. Search by title, artist or album. You can get the widget to embed and then stream music from your own site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

A website with lots of ideas and advice for making podcast for schools. It is also a place for children to upload and listen to podcasts. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

An alphabet chart that you may print out and use for your classes to help them remember the sounds of letters.

A great site for finding Music videos online. Just enter the artist to build a playlist. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

A good music streaming site. Use the latest tunes in your classroom. Search for an artist to build a playlist. But don't dance in front of your students. No one wants to see that! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

This is an easy to use online presentation maker. Upload or search for your images, videos or sounds and publish on the web. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

An amazing collaborative music maker. Choose your instrument and change the pitch by moving your line up and down. Must be viewed on Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

A great site to find children's songs and music. Each month a new song is added with an archive going back to 2001. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

This is an issue we should be studying, talking about, and weighing in on. With the blocking that this proposes, say that you claim fair use, that may not matter - you may be blocked for using copyrighted material, period... no matter whether you have fair use claims or not., the way I understand it. Looking for some more good information on SOPA. Please share. "SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is another one of those bills that sounds like it's going to do something mildly positive but, in reality, has serious potential to negatively change the internet as we know it. It puts power in the hands of the entertainment industry to censor sites that allegedly "engage in, enable or facilitate" copyright infringement. This language vague enough to encompass sites you use every day, like Twitter and Facebook, making SOPA a serious problem"

An interesting downloadable programme for creating ebooks. Design your book by dragging pictures, sounds and actions from the gallery or upload your own. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A collection of 37 video guitar lessons and other resources to get you playing in no time. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Help develop language skills for students who are having difficulty with this Android and Apple Device App with a cartoon cat that copies every sound you make and interacts in other ways. The basic free version has lots of functionality, but comes with banner ads. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs