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Do you love Pandora, but wish you could play entire albums and specific songs? Consider Rdio (pronounced ar-dio, like audio and radio) for this purpose. This new social music service has some sharing and discussion features, but the best part in my opinion is the ability to search for and play a specific album. Once [...]
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Guest Post By Russ Hockenberry The Good Computer Podcast was started to teach technology and digital citizenship concepts to the pre-K through 2nd grade crowd. It does this by using puppetry, animation, music, and digital storytelling to convey its themes. Each episode covers some basics of the topic, and serves as a jumping off point [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/user/ParticleMen I grew up enjoying this band… and now they have recorded several kid-oriented albums so I get to enjoy them all over again. They have a YouTube channel with many of their videos available to view. You’ll enjoy playing How Many Planets, Science is Real and the other kid-friendly science and reading videos.
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http://www.sfskids.org/ The San Francisco Orchestra maintains this kid-friendly music education site. They state that, “We love music and are committed to music education, within our community and beyond. This website, in conjunction with our live performances, provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music.” Your students [...]
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I still think that Pandora Internet Radio is the best choice for classroom music, but it never hurts to have a few alternatives up your sleeve. You never know if someone will make the decision to block Pandora or if the site will be having problems one day. For one of my earlier posts about [...]
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For the budding musicians in your class: 10 Interactive Music Sites for Fun and Learning The “Pattern Block Rock” and BBC Orchestra pages look especially promising. I’ll be adding them to my list of links for Art, Music and PE teachers.
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There is a wonderful assortment of holiday music available from Pandora.com. Log in to Pandora and scroll down to the “Genre Stations.” Select “Holiday” and notice ten great stations to choose from. Enjoy!
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Pandora Internet Radio For Your Classroom By Jeremy D. Renner Victor Hugo stated that “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” The acclaimed French novelist and poet must have held music in high regard, and many teachers feel the same way. Music can help create a caring community in [...]
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Pandora users can select “Genre Stations” then “Listen Now” and choose either “Halloween Party Music” or “Spooky Symphonies” to bring a little extra flavor into the next few days of class. If you haven’t set up Pandora yet, here is my handout on the subject: Pandora Internet Radio Directions You can save a step and [...]
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http://www.karaokeparty.com/ Looking for something to do today or Tuesday? Have a Karaoke Party! The kids will have great memories of the last day with you and you’ll be reinforcing their reading skills too! Karaoke Party is free and easy to use. I found many songs available without an account. If you do need to build [...]
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