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Great on smtbd for music lesson - focus is on how music impacts on an individuals mood

Some great royalty-free music - broken up in  early primary, primary. and secondary appropriate sounds!

"Noteflight® is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear music notation" Has an embed code

All you need is an iphone or ipad and some rather spectacular apps, and you can create a music creation> This is worth a look. Atomic Tom and Applegirl are great

This article has a roundup of some of the best music websites for primary school students. 

This blog entry shares some neat virtual musical instruments for use on the SMARTBoard

Canorus is a free extensible music score editor. It supports note writing, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output, scripting and more! Using a Qt4 framework Canorus offers a fast and modern GUI and cross-platformability. Canorus runs on Linux, Windows and MacOSX. Canorus is free (libre) software, licensed under GNU GPL.

copyright free music loops search engine

Another source for creative-commons music

Great site  to use for body percussion or general percussion on the smtbd.

Make your own sound scape

Royalty free music

Sleepover Planet is a complete online toolkit which takes the teacher and students step by step through the process of staging a school musical.

Some good sources of royalty-free music for presentations/iMovies etc.

A cool idea for creating virtual flowers. The Black Eyed Peas have created/endorsed a site called Planting My Ideas. You can use music, images, and words to create your own flower, which is then be posted in the site's gallery. You can also post the link on a student or teacher's website/blog, and have students write about it as a language development activity.

Great review of the new features in Garageband on the iPad!

This site too is linked to Brainpop jr, but it is for older students. Again excellent site (but costs) click on the 'free stuff' icon to see what you can use for free. Very suitable for Stage 2 to Stage 3, perhaps even Stage 4

Have just been playing with this and must say it looks pretty interesting. you can easily combine pictures, text and video. You can alos create links to other sites etc. The free version also comes with 200 student accounts. I found it in here http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/allison-gray/50-web-apps-for-teachers/ which came from the diigo Classroom 2.0 group.