I am currently reading David Jennings' excellent new book Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll , which analyses how consumers discover music online. In the meantime, the book has got me thinking about my relationship to music and about how music and learning interact. I have been keenly interested in music all my life. I'll provide my thoughts on this in a week or so when I've finished it. I

While there are many websites you can go to for royalty free images, is there anything for those of us who might want to have some background music … say, if you’re creating a video presentation as opposed to a PowerPoint one? Why, Why, yes there is, and here are a few; FreePlayMusic FreePlayMusic (as mentioned on BBC Click [...] ...Tags:

Home About Free Tools & Resources Help jump to navigation Joe’s Guide to Free eLearning Tools: Royalty-Free, Podsafe, and Stock Music May 19, 2009 Posted by jmullock in e-Learning Tools . trackback Item: Royalty-Free, Podsafe, and Stock Music Category: Audio Recording, Editing & Resources If you need background music, sound effects, or other audio cues in your eLearning production there are some low-cost options available, but you will have to do your homework to stay out of licensing and copyright trouble. 

This is a fun clip of Bobby McFerrin giving a music lesson and getting the audience to put on a little concert, all without using any words. Tags: Leveraging Learning learning musi Clearly McFerrin has studied Reigeluth's Elaboration Theory and applies it well by starting with the simplest thing (a single note) and gradually building up layers of complexity with each of his little micro-lessons. World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo . Thanks to Brent Schlenker ( http://twitter.com/bschlenker/

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The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown; – John Keats Isn’t it . . . interesting that bird-song has charmed the hearts of explorers the world over? sensational that people are stirred to dance when they hear lively music? touching how music can arouse memories of associated past events otherwise long forgotten? profound that some melodies, still popular today, were played so long ago their origins have been forgotten? curious how some forms of music can affect the function of the brain? remarkable that

Tags: publishing a podcast e-learning django reinhardt education music podcast histor I've just about completed all the topics I want to cover regarding Podcasting for E-Learning (for the moment). It's time to move on to other learning and development-related subjects. So, over the next couple of days, I want to tie up some podcasting 'loose ends.' Now read on… Today, publishing

Just this past weekend I took my family up to London and the O2 Centre (the rebranded Millenium Dome) to see an interactive installation called the British Music Experience. Tags: British Music Experience educatio It was great to see a modern attempt to create an environment designed to engage an audience of all ages. It had some real lessons in how to provide an effective learning experience in the 21st Century.

The end for this brief and brilliant artistic career was a supernova in the pop music galaxy that continues to reverberate with the shock. Early in the morning (3 February 1959) a light plane crashed shortly after take-off, near Mason City Municipal Airport, Iowa. All passengers died: pilot Roger Peterson, Ritchie Valens, J P “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and Charles Hardin Holley, otherwise know as Buddy Holly. Holly’s life was short - too short for him to commit mistakes enough to influence, in the slightest, his inevitable place in the history of music. Don McLean’s famous

As I mentioned last week in So much music, so little time , I've been reading David Jennings' new book Net, Blog and Rock 'n' Roll , a look at "how digital discovery works and what it means for consumers, creators and culture". After all, (1) I don't work in the music business, (2) while I am what David calls an 'enthusiast' ("music is a key part of my life but is balanced by other interests"), I am certainly not a 'savant' ("someone for whom everything in life seems to be tied up with music"), and (3) I am of an age when I really do have to concede I have no future as a rock star (although