COD - 5/10/2012 - Musicards [Music]

Musicards is an ever-growing collection of highly-customizable online music theory flash cards.

Musicards can be used by both beginning music students who are becoming acquainted with key rudiments of music, as well as intermediate and advanced students who want to fill in gaps in their existing knowledge or increase their music fluency.

Musicards are grouped in eight categories: Note Names, Key Signatures, Intervals, Triads, Piano Note Names, Reading Piano Notes, Guitar Note Names, and Reading Guitar Notes.

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Catch of the Day - Webdoc - 6/27/2011

Webdoc is a socially-oriented web tool allowing users to express themselves and interact with others in free-form spaces called “webdocs” where they can post their own mix of pictures, videos, sounds, and more.

Users can put almost anything into a webdoc:

• pictures, videos, and audio
• interactive content such as games, polls, or slideshows
• web services such as Google Maps and Twitter

The rich social conversation on Webdoc happens naturally and spontaneously around people, events, and topics. Anyone can start a conversation with just one friend or with all of them, or just listen. Both friend people and follow conversations.

Watch a video demo of Webdoc

Share things with your friends, colleagues, or students. Webdoc offers a richer way to connect with people, beyond simply broadcasting your message. People can get involved and be more interactive.

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Catch of the Day - ArtsAlive.ca - 5/23/2011

ArtsAlive.ca is the educational website of Canada's National Arts Centre. Visitiors can learn about orchestral music, dance, English and French language theater, as well as explore archival collections.

The objectives of ArtsAlive.ca are to involve younger generations in information, multimedia resources, and activities relevant to the performing arts, and to provide free educational resources to students and teachers to help them in learning about the performing arts.

ArtsAlive.ca makes lots of tools available for teachers to bring the performing arts into the classroom.

Music

• Free teacher resource kits
• Play-along recorder music for students
• Interactive activities and games
• Access the life and times of great composers for projects and research
• The Instrument Lab lets you rotate 3D-images of instruments

Theater

• Learn about the professions of acting, directing, design, and production
• Watch interviews with theater professionals
• Explore contemporary theater around the world
• Research theater through history
• Find theater reading lists

Dance

• TheVirtual Dance Studio, an interactive choreography tool to create your own dance
• Over 180 biographies of world-renowned dancers and choreographers
• Advice from dance professionals on becoming an artist
• Dance video clips and artist interviews

ArtsAlive.ca is made possible through the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online program and thanks to financial investment by the Virtual Museum of Canada.

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Catch of the Day - Rock Our World - 1/19/2011

Rock Our World is an international collaboration connecting students and teachers to compose original music, make movies, and meet in live video chats.

Each country participating in Rock Our World creates a 30 second drum beat using Apple’s GarageBand.  That drum is passed along to another country where the bass guitar is added.  Each week it continues to be passed along from country to country, getting one more instrument added at each stop.  Eventually, it comes back to the originating country, having been touched by students from all over the world!

As the music travels the globe, students meet each other in live video chats to discuss various curriculum topics.

Among the companies Rock Our World has worked with are  Apple, Discovery, American Film Institute, Smart Technologies, NASA, and even actor Will Smith.

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Catch of the Day - Creaza - Jul 19, 2010

Creaza integrates professionally-created and user-generated content, creativity tools, and a social network in a new and innovative way.

Creaza offers web-based, integrated creative tools for K-12+. Included are tools for mindmapping, creating cartoons, editing movies, and audio editing. Use Creaza at school, at home, or anywhere with an Internet connection.

Use the Creaza quartet of tools along with various themed units. Examples of these units are Creative Storytelling, Urban Lifestyle, Manga, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Creaza users can share their work with other Internet users and can give each other feedback on the content they share.

Creaza is offered as a free version and also as an annually licensed paid version. The licensed version includes storage, support, and access to all themes within Creaza for all students and teachers at your school.

Compare the free and paid versions of Creaza

Creaza is available to PC, MAC, and Linux users. To use Creaza, all you need is Internet access, a web browser, and the Flash plug-in.

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Aviary Education - Tools for Graphics and Sound

The online creativity suite Aviary now offers a selection of its tools in a free, education-safe, private environment, Aviary Education.

With Aviary Education you can ...

• Create private student accounts
• Manage assignments and projects
• Use any of four selected tools
• Access only school-safe content and images

The currently available tools are the image, vector, and audio editors and the music creator.

Aviary Education is presently on an invitation-only beta basis. You can request an invitation by clicking Request Free Beta and completing the form. An invitations will be emailed to you within a few days.

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Catch of the Day - Note-A-Lator - 26 Feb 10

Note-A-Lator, tool for music teachers, is today's catch

Note-A-Lator is a music reading quiz program for students and teachers.

Note-A-Lator Pro enables teachers to create printable quizzes that test note and rhythm identification for students to take home or to use in a classroom. Each randomly generated quiz comes with an answer sheet.

Note-A-Lator for students lets them practice reading music with quizzes tailored to suit individual needs. If a student gets an answer wrong, Note-A-Lator will immediately draw it on a staff so that he can compare it to the correct answer.

Note-A-Lator Short Demo


Note-A-Lator is available in English, Italian, and French. Note-A-Lator for students is $9.95, Pro for teachers is $19.95, however free trial downloads of each are available. Note-A-Lator requires Mac OS X 10.5+.

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