Open Resource Centre

Here’s a great app for recording and uploading on site, with photos, if required. the App also geolocates, so viewers will see where you were recording – sweet.

Check out the Tech Crunch post here

Listen to some audioboos here

Documenting our zoo trip with AudioBoo

a whole culture of “podsafe” music has arisen.

Web sites including PodSafe Audio and the podsafe music network have filled the void by creating services that allow musicians to have their music heard, and let podcasters find freely available content for their programs.

thanks to download squad

CC Mixter Sampling, Mashing, Sharing

This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.

Podcasters, directors and music lovers If you’re into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.

Thanks to Joe’s links

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.

Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.

New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

• browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
• up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
• interact with fellow sound-artists!

thanks to Joe’s links

From the art of podcasting

• Don’t try to record your whole show all in one take. Your odds of getting a high-quality recording of high-quality content, organized in a high-quality manner are very low.
• Musical interludes between topics can be great mood setters, but if they go on for more than 30 seconds, you can lose the momentum of your show.
• If your first minute isn’t fabulous, nobody will ever know about all the great stuff that comes later. Try to devote half your production time to making that first minute spectacularly interesting.
• Include a brief table of contents near the start of your show, so listeners know what to listen for and when.
• Give a preview of upcoming podcasts at the end of each recording to give listeners something to look forward to.
• Include a list of relevant keywords at the end of the text summary on your podcast page. That will help interested people find your show.
• If you have content with questionable production quality — a location recording with a lot of background noise, for example — don’t use it. New listeners won’t fight to hear those parts; they’ll stop listening altogether.
• Make your podcast as short as you reasonably can. Most amateur podcasts drone on three times longer than they need to. Since skimming is much harder to do when listening to a podcast, make every single word count. Record your topics again and again until they are as tight as possible.

If you are looking for royalty free music to support podcasting or music within your school, then go to Royalty Free Music

thanks to edu.bogs

Well where do I start with this one – it looks SO EXCITING for educators.

At the moment, it looks like iTunes is providing their space for educators to add their digital content to their site – not sure at this stage if it’s free.  However, a quick browse found a whole list of audiobooks available free for download, for K-12 that others have uploaded

http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/

It would appear that there are around 100 audio  in just  one section I checked out at

Lit2go: Audio files for K-12

When you have loaded this section, choose which tab/age group you want, click “subscribe” and then iTunes will load up you subscription link and get all the downloads ready for you to choose – (it does download the first as a matter of course)

and I think there are loads more. And there are lots of other types of media.  So what’s the point.

How about having your school IPod Nano available for students to access these stories during their breaks, or showing them where they are and suggesting they download them at home.

I think this is a great addition to our literacy resources  and looks free to all

Visit iTunes U store now – I used the “browse” button to see the areas available – you will need iTunes installed
Thanks to Continuing the Learning for the tip