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Monkey Machine – make a backing track

Monkey Machine is a free and easy to use online drum machine.

To run Monkey Machine, click the green “launch” . If the application won’t start, check that Javascript is enabled in your browser, and Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or later is installed in your system.

Monkey Machine features:

  • High quality drum samples provided by Natural Studio and Hydrogen.
  • Extremely accurate timing.
  • Online drum beat database with over 10 000 downloadable drum beats.
  • MIDI export.
  • Tap tempo.
  • Variable time signatures.

http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/#

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22.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Teaching Music – Resources

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program,available for Windows, Mac & Linux computers. Some highlights:

  • WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a “virtual note sheet”
  • Unlimited number of staves
  • Up to four voices per staff
  • Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI
  • Integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer
  • Import and export of MusicXML and Standard MIDI Files
  • Available for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Translated in 26 languages
  • GNU GPL licenced

The site also contains video tutorials.

http://musescore.org/

Music Tech Tips

This blog contains tips, news and more importantly, step-by-step tutorials about the use of music technology with a particular focus on its use in the education sphere. It contains videos as well as online music games and resources for teaching music.

http://musictechtips.com/

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21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Project Gutenberg – 32 000 Free eBooks and Audio Books

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 32,000 free ebooks to read on your PC,  iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.

“These books were previously published on paper by bona fide publishers and digitized by us with the help of thousands of volunteers.”

All our ebooks can be easily downloaded: Choose between ePub, Mobipocket, HTML and simple text formats.

No fee or registration is required

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

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21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Sumdog – Free online interactive Math Games

Sumdog is another website much like Arcademic Skill Builder which uses fun interactive games for learning Math. There are multiple games to choose from and you can signup for free to play your classmates, play against others around the world or simply compete against the computer.

http://www.sumdog.com/

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21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Tagxedo – Word Pictures

Tagxedo

Tagxedo is much like Wordle, where you create tag clouds with words except Tagxedo can make your word cloud into a shapes

www.tagxedo.com

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21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Learning Another Language?

Lingro is a great website if you’re learning another language or viewing a website that uses non-english text.

Simply visit the Lingro website, and enter the url of the webpage you want translated. The webpage will load normally through Lingro. All you do is click on a word and a small window opens with a translation and definition of the word in english.

It also has a dictionary where you can simply enter words to be translated.

http://lingro.com/

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16.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Math Cats

Math Cats has a collection of useful tools for teaching math. From interactive games to activities for making geometric shape models.

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