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Creative Commons Music Communities - Creative Commons - 2 views

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With 2 million members, Storybird is 'reverse-engineering' the picture book - paidContent - 2 views

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Nancy Tella on 09 Mar 13

Although listed as an educational site, Storybird.com is a mini gallery of original artworks and a social storytelling website. As an interactive create-your-own self publishing site, users can combine original text with available artwork to create unique children's books that can be shared with others. http://storybird.com/

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Although listed as an educational site, Storybird.com is a mini gallery of original artworks and a social storytelling website. As an interactive create-your-own self publishing site, users can combine original text with available artwork to create unique children's books that can be shared with others. <a href="http://storybird.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://storybird.com/</a></div>

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Susan Miville on 30 Mar 13

This is awesome! I love the artwork and the concept. I think I might join and experiment with the program.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is awesome! I love the artwork and the concept. I think I might join and experiment with the program.</div>

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This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - 1 views

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Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.</div>

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Susan Miville on 29 Mar 13

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!</div>

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Susan Miville on 30 Mar 13

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.</div>

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