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"Musical instruments produce sounds. Composers produce music. Musical instruments reproduce music. Tape recorders, radios, disc players, etc., reproduce sound. A device such as a wind-up music box produces sound and reproduces music. A phonograph in the hands of a hip hop/scratch artist who plays a record like an electronic washboard with a phonographic needle as a plectrum, produces sounds which are unique and not reproduced - the record player becomes a musical instrument. A sampler, in essence a recording, transforming instrument, is simultaneously a documenting device and a creative device, in effect reducing a distinction manifested by copyright."

My Sound FX is your source for professionally recorded and edited, studio quality, free sound effects. These files may be used, without restriction, for both private and commercial use.

Princeton Invention: 3D Sound from Ordinary Laptop Speaker

Building on very small-scale work using MP3 files for summative feedback on one programme, the Sounds Good team will widen the focus to both formative and summative feedback in various disciplines at different educational levels. The experimentation will include delivering digital sound files containing feedback to students via a virtual learning environment, email and mobile devices such as widely-available MP3 players.

"Still images, moving images and sound adviceJISC Digital Media exists to help the UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective."

Collections of sound, video and writing in the avant-garde and outsider arts realm.

Using technology to do more with less (sounds familiar). Like SWEET - Synchronous Web-enabled Employee Training :-)

Sounds good - need to check.

Creative Commons materials search engine - modified from a Korean engine and searches Flickr, Jamendo and Youtube for sounds, videos and docs licenced under a CC licence

A report of some MOOC analysis of discussion forums. Sounds like the analysis is flawed from the report here.

Sounds like Blackboard are shifting their game in terms of user experience. Interesting.

A new tool - Curatr - which aims to develop game based social learning. Sounds interesting!

"It's a product of Microsoft Office Labs that addresses some key shortcomings in the static, linear nature of everyone's favorite presentation tool... If all this sounds familiar, it's because this is not entirely unlike Prezi"

* investigated how commencing first year students and their teachers use traditional and emerging technology-based tools in their everyday lives and to support student learning * drawn on the expertise of teachers and the results of this investigation to develop and implement pedagogically sound, technology-based tools to enhance student learning in local learning environments

SOLSTICE involves the use of supported online learning or blended learning designed on sound pedagogic principles and developed as a result of ongoing evaluative research

SOLSTICE involves the use of supported online learning or blended learning designed on sound pedagogic principles and developed as a result of ongoing evaluative research

Doesn't quite sound like delishus yet!

"Which of the following predictions about the future of libraries were made by university administrators? Within five years, libraries will focus exclusively on electronic resources Academic computing and libraries will merge. Librarians who do not produce will be reassigned or fired. The library will only house materials that are actively used. Libraries will shrink, in both collection size and staffing, and funding will be redirected from libraries to more critical and productive areas of the university." Sound familiar?