Aug
02
2008
suzievesper
Your kids have made a video and you want that perfect music track to add to the movie but you know that you shouldn’t use a commercially produced music track off of one of your CDs. What to do? There are plenty of ‘podsafe’ music resources on the web and I some listed on the Podcast page of my wiki.
I have now just found another great source of music that it is legal to download and use (as long as you stay within the confines of the creative common licence). I found it while I was watching a video by Michael Wesch and my husband called out from the next room asking what music I was listening to. I jumped to the end of the video and, sure enough, the details of the song were in the credits and it came from a website called Jamendo.
I went and checked it out and was pretty impressed with the way the site was organised and the quality of some of the music that it on it. You can embed a widget from an album that you like so I have one included below (I particularly like the first and third song). I will be using this site a lot I think when making multimedia productions.
Tags: creative commons, music
Sep
23
2007
suzievesper
I was trying to go through all the Mashable posts in my reader (it has to be one of the most prolific blog out there!) and so far tonight I have found a few really interesting tools as a result.
Mango
This software is for free language learning. Lessons are structures on slides. I am learning Spanish at the moment so I checked out those lesons. There were just over 100 lessons with each lesson having around 70 slides. That’s a lot of content! The only thing I found slightly frustrating was that there was no way to skip the instructions on each slide when they weren’t necessary at times. You can to beat the clock to give your answers and the time you have can be adjusted. They are offering lessons for Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Mandarin, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Greek, English for Spanish speakers, and English for Polish Speakers.
oSkope Visual Search
This is an interesting search tool that lets you look for content from Amazon, eBay, Flickr and YouTube. It then gives you a visual display of the results which you can say how you’d like them displayed such as in a stack or pile. If you want to keep one of the results, you can drag it into your folder for safekeeping. Quite interesting but I think it needs a few new places to get results such as Google Images and I think it would be handy if it let you do a search for Creative Commons work.
TalkShoe
This service allows for up to 250 people to join into a TalkCast. Each person can use phone or Skype to access this. They provide free unlimited recording, free storage, free bandwidth, and uploading of existing podcast episodes. People can listen to, download or subscribe to the TalkCast afterwards from your stored recording. You can put widgets for your TalkCast on your blog or wiki. This could be a great tool and I’d like to have a play with this at some point so let me know if you want to join me for a TalkCast.
Tjoon
This tool allows you to record 30 seconds into four separate areas in a split screen so that you can be your own band or pretend to be the Partridge family with your friends. I thought this would be fun for a music lesson where you were doing rounds. Kids could each record a different part to play together at the end. You could have recorder parts or make up actions for a song with each action being slightly different. I could see that this would be a lot of fun!
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