Estaremos manteniendolos al tanto de los avances del proyecto.
Gracias ASOUSA
Y Jesus comenzo a predicar.
La palabra PREDICAR ha bajado de categoria. Se conecta con aburrimiento en muchos casos.
PREDICAR viene del Griego K^ERYSSEIN , la cual se usaba para HERALDO que significa EL QUE TRAE UN MENSAJE DIRECTO DEL REY.
JESUS ES EL HERALDO DE DIOS.
Todo MENSAJE de un HERALDO debe tener 3 aspectos:
1 SEGURIDAD
2 AUTORIDAD
3
School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.
I want to start the new year with this optimistic lesson based on a short film School Portrait by director Nick Scott which tells the story of a jaded, cynical school photographer who tries to give each child a harsh vision of what their future will really look like, but a little girl with an infectious smile teaches him an important life lesson. The lesson also includes images from a beautiful book Everything Is Going To Be OK which uses positive artwork from a variety of artists, graphic designers and illustrators. I discovered the book on Maria Popova‘s wonderful Brainpickings.
Step 1
Write School Portrait on the board and ask your students if they know what it means. If they don’t know explain that it is a photograph taken at school by a professional photographer. Ask your students if they had an individual school portrait taken at their school. Ask about their experience. If you have your own school portrait show it to your students.
Ask your students if they can remember what the photographer said to them and how he encouraged them to smile.
Step 2
Tell your students that hey are going to watch a short film called School Portrait. Ask them the following question:
How is the photographer different from a normal school photographer?
Step 3
Cut up the sentences which the photographers says in the document below. Put students into small groups and give each group one set of sentences. Tell them they are going to watch the film again and that they have to put the photographer sentences into the correct order.
Check answers and get feedback.
Step 3
Put your students in small groups and ask them to discuss what the message of the film is.
Step 4
The message of the film is that smiling and being optimistic is extremely important in life. Show students the images below taken from a beautiful book Everything Is Going To Be OK . Ask them to discuss each image and its message.
You can also show the images using this PowerPoint presentation.
Follow up
Ask students if they know what an infectious smile is. Ask them if they know anyone with an infectious smile. Show them the photo below.
Ask your students the following questions:
Do you like this woman’s smile?
Does she smile a lot?
What kind of person do you think she is?
What kind of philosophy does she have about life?
What does she do?
Tell your students they are going to watch a short film about this woman. Ask them to watch the film and check their answers.
Homework
For homework give students the link to this TED video in which Ron Gutman talks about empirical research which shows how important smiling is in life.
Ask students to watch the video and make notes about research which shows that smiling has a positive effect on our lives.
Give students the transcript of the talk.
Check answers in the following class.
I hope you enjoy the films and the lessons.
Share this:
Four Takes on Tough Times
In this theme issue of Educational Leadership on "The Resourceful School," we acknowledge the hardships that schools are experiencing both in the United States and in other nations across the world in the wake of a global financial crisis. To explore the effects of this economic crisis on schools, we decided to talk with four experts in the fields of education policy and finance. In phone conversations and through e-mail, we asked them to describe the fiscal situation and suggest ways that schools might not only survive these challenging times, but also, perhaps, find ways to thrive.
You may agree or disagree with our commentators' suggestions. Tough times force us to confront difficult issues that are bound to spark debate.
So here's what the experts had to say about where we're headed and what we must do.
—The Editors
The Recession—and Students' Rights by Michael A. Rebell
The vast majority of states are experiencing serious cutbacks, and in some places it's quite devastating. So the question is, What's the extent of the cutback, has it been distributed equitably, and what effect is it having?
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently surveyed 24 states that had available data; 21 of them indicated that they're spending less on education in 2012 than they did in 2011; in inflation-adjusted terms, 17 of the 24 are spending less than they did in 2008, even though costs for education and other services have risen.
In California over the last three years, the average amount spent per pupil has dropped by about $1,500, causing many school districts, including Los Angeles, to cut 8 to 10 instructional days from the school year. Last year, average class sizes in Los Angeles bumped up to 30 and were more than 40 in some high schools, and Hawaii furloughed teachers and canceled classes for 17 Fridays in a row. For 2011–12, school districts in California and South Dakota cut back the number of school days to four per week; the Miami, Florida, schools eliminated after-school programs for 4,500 students; Illinois eliminated funding for advanced placement (AP) courses for school districts with large concentrations of low-income students; and Texas terminated preschool services for 100,000 mostly at-risk students.
So the ramifications are getting serious. The research doesn't say it's catastrophic to go from 23 to 24 students in an elementary school class. But going to 40 students makes a huge difference. And certainly, when you start cutting down to a four-day week and eliminating actual school time, that is major, that is catastrophic.
We're also seeing the effects of this crisis in small schools, where they've got few options. AP courses tend to go first, eliminating a significant option for bright kids who are college-bound. It's especially troublesome when you're talking about small rural areas and high-needs schools in minority areas that are striving to overcome achievement gaps.
You'll also find that when schools really get squeezed, they drop things like physics and other courses that tend to get low enrollments, even though they're part of the core curriculum and of crucial importance.
Moreover, there are more subtle effects that you don't see on the surface. For example, we have a number of community schools in New York; Chicago has even more. The community school approach tries to deal with the broad impact of poverty on children's readiness to learn. These schools provide wraparound services that kids need—health services; preschool programs; after-school, summer, and family support programs—and a lot of them have been really successful. But now, because of budget cuts, school districts are cutting back on the hours that they keep the doors to school buildings open. That means that even though a lot of their activities don't come out of the school budget—through various arrangements, they get a lot of services free—they now have to restrict their hours or, in some cases, pay school opening fees. These things begin to eat away at core activities.
It's ironic that the federal government and most state governments are still saying that our prime national education goal is to overcome the achievement gap—that we have to put extra effort into improving low-performing schools—but in the meantime, all the resources that might enable us to do these things are being taken away.
In many cases, these cuts affect high-needs schools disproportionately. For example, the heavy budget cuts that were put into effect last year in New York State fell disproportionately on the neediest districts. High-needs districts tend to depend more on state aid; a theoretically equalizing formula takes into account the fact that a district has low property wealth and can't raise much money through local property taxes.
So, for example, if the state cuts state aid by 10 percent overall, a poor district that gets 75 percent of its money from state aid loses 7.5 percent of its total budget. A wealthy district may get only 10 percent of its money from the state and 90 percent from property taxes, so if this district takes a 10 percent cut on state aid, that's only a 1 percent loss on its total budget. Caps on local property tax increases in states like New York do not allow the local districts to make up for these cuts, even if a majority of their voters might want to do so.
As you may know, we've had litigation around the United States about children's rights to an adequate education. In New York State, where the highest court said explicitly that all children in the state have the right to a sound basic education, litigation resulted in changes in the state formula and a legislative commitment to increase school funding by billions of dollars over a four-year period. The state started doing this, but then the recession came, and they put it on hold, and now they've started cutting the allocations. Clearly the state is now undermining the schools' ability to provide a sound basic education.
Of course, the amounts that the legislature came up with were before the recession hit. So the question is, Are those amounts sacred? Can we go into court and say we're entitled to the exact amount of money they promised us in 2007? Or has something changed?
I take the position that something has changed. Kids still are entitled to their constitutional rights—constitutional rights don't get put on hold because there's a recession—but because of the economic realities, we all have to roll up our sleeves and focus on cost-effectiveness and cost efficiency.
What I'm looking at now is this: What are the crucial services that are constitutionally mandated—and are the kids getting those? A state has an obligation, if it's cutting money, to show what the effect of that cut is going to be and guarantee that it's not going to cut essential services as defined by the state constitution.
With something like class size, that gets tricky. That's where districts can save the most money. In New York State, the court talked about how kids have the right to reasonable class size, but they never defined what "reasonable" is. That's the kind of thing we're wrestling with now. We have these vague phrases—like effective teachers and reasonable class size. It's important to pin these down, to say that this is what you absolutely have to fund, whether there's a recession or not.
Nationwide, whether a state has had litigation or not, you still have No Child Left Behind, which requires schools to make reasonable progress toward eliminating the achievement gap. Even with the waivers that he recently announced, President Obama has reasserted the importance of the ultimate outcomes—all kids being proficient in terms of challenging state standards. Although this requirement for 100-percent proficiency by 2014 will be changed, states are still going to have to come up with accountability systems and assurances that they're on the track to be doing this. I think the clear implication is that the states have to provide the resources to do so.
Some of those states never have provided those resources, but certainly in this time of budget crisis, they've got to show that they're providing sufficient money to keep on course toward achieving the ultimate outcomes that the federal law requires.
Schools Can Still Improve by Allan Odden
For the first time in a century, we face a decade when school funding will, at best, hold at current levels, if not fall.
Our current "Great Recession" is not a typical business cycle recession but rather a financial recession caused by the housing bust and by banks and individuals over-leveraging themselves. It will take several years for normal economic growth to resume.
This slow economic growth has diminished state and local tax revenues. The result for education is that education budgets have been cut in more than 30 states and that per-pupil education dollars are flat or declining in more than half the districts in the United States. These grim fiscal realities will not abate over the next few years and might even get worse as the extra dollars from the federal fiscal stimulus package of 2009 are spent down.
Despite these fiscal realities, pressures to improve student performance continue to bear down on schools. The big question is whether schools can respond positively to these performance pressures in such tight fiscal times. I say yes. Schools can improve by taking the following steps.
First, schools need to resist cost pressures that erode education budgets and do little to improve performance. These include preferences for small class sizes; demands for increased electives beyond the core subjects of math, language arts, science, history, and world language; and automatic pay hikes.
Although both teachers and parents desire smaller class sizes, research shows that small classes make a difference only in grades K–3, and then at great cost. Lowering class sizes in other grades has virtually no effect on student achievement.
Parents also push for more electives. No research shows that taking more electives improves performance in core subjects, but research does show that most high schools spend two to three times as much on electives as on core classes. Although all schools—elementary, middle, and high—should provide a full liberal arts curriculum that includes electives, expanding elective offerings and spending more on them at a time when the goal is to increase student performance in core subjects represent a misallocation of scarce dollars.
Finally, although teachers need to be paid more through performance pay structures, automatic annual pay hikes favor adults over kids because they require further cuts in education programming.
None of these three cost pressures boost student learning, although they certainly boost costs. And that's why funding has risen in the past while performance has remained flat or has just modestly risen.
Second, backed by education and political leaders, schools must set clear goals—particularly for higher levels of achievement in the core subjects of reading, writing, math, science, and history. Such goals should include students' ability to use content to think, solve problems, and address new issues in substantively analytic ways. Most schools that significantly boost performance set ambitious, numeric annual goals; most flat-performing schools have either no goals or unimpressive goals, such as "to improve student performance."
Third, schools must craft a powerful improvement strategy, a plan of action to turn around low-performing schools or boost performance to advanced levels in higher-performing schools. This includes having the effective teachers and principals needed to execute the plan.
Fourth, schools must engage in a strategic budgeting process that targets scarce resources known to boost performance. They must be flexible about class size; pare school schedules to eliminate excessive and expensive elective classes (but not all electives); freeze salaries for the short term; and ensure that the core elements for improving instruction and student performance are in place. Systematically deploying such core elements in all classrooms requires teachers to have access to formative assessment data, have schedules organized so they can work with these data in collaborative groups and hone instruction to student needs, and be supported by instructional coaches.
So collaborative time and instructional coaches have a higher priority than smaller classes. Further, even when core instruction is top-notch, some students will struggle to perform to high standards. The most effective intervention strategy is individual or small-group tutoring (not to exceed groups of five students). So tutoring staff also should be a budget priority. Some combination of extended day and summer academic help should also have priority if the budget dollars are there.
Fifth, schools should tap the power of technology. Florida's virtual schools, like other virtual schools across the United States, cost one-half the price of education in a traditional brick-and-mortar school and are as effective for many students. All advanced placement (AP) classes are now available online, so no student should be denied access to them (and AP classes do not need to be sized at 15 students but can rise to 25 or more students). And many schools across the United States are implementing blended instruction, which combines computer-based instruction with face-to-face instruction and moves more teachers into facilitator roles. When budgets are declining, these student-centered learning approaches should be on the table as new education strategies.
I'm not arguing that declining budgets, salary freezes, large classes, and fewer electives are necessarily good things. But I am arguing that budgets are declining and will continue to decline because of macro-economic conditions, that succumbing to traditional cost-increase pressures on schools will further erode budgets while also eroding achievement, and that options are available for boosting learning even when the budget is tight.
The decisions that must be made, however, require strong school leadership and political support beyond the education community. Political leaders—legislators, mayors, the U.S. Congress—need to help school leaders set clear student achievement goals and support strategic budgeting of resources to attain those goals, especially when those budget decisions may be at odds with the preferences of the general public.
Efficiency and Equity by Anthony Rolle
I'm not sure how "a fiscal crisis" is defined. But given the multitude of state accountability requirements and standards, most education organizations are stretched thin fiscally while attempting to serve their students to the best of their ability.
Apparently there's not much of a limit on what stakeholders are asking or will continue to ask of schools—and therein lies the genesis of any fiscal crisis.
Even though people will continue to disagree on what a fiscal crisis actually is, two primary concerns will emerge: How can we equitably distribute the resources we have? and How efficiently can we use them? These are the two prevailing ideas that face any district or school in financial crisis.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people interested in the distribution of education resources don't agree on the meaning of the term equity. Equity to some people means we're going to count the number of kids and divide that number into the amount of resources we have. On the other end of the spectrum, someone might say that we need to acknowledge that students are individuals and that learning plans have to be differentiated; therefore, students need differentiated amounts of resources.
A good example is a child with special needs. Imagine the neediest of these children. He or she may receive $150,000–$200,000 worth of education services a year, whereas your regular education student may receive only $10,000 a year. Many will say that the child with special needs requires those services, and that's fair. However, others may say it's unfair because one child is receiving $200,000 whereas another is receiving only $10,000. With schools under accountability requirements to raise student achievement, these individuals may ask whether giving that $200,000 to 20 general education kids instead would give schools more bang for their buck.
Now, that's both an equity and an efficiency argument. Should schools improve the situation of those least advantageously situated and risk not reaching accountability standards? Or should schools focus on generating high test scores, high graduation rates, and high college attendance rates? Or, ultimately, should schools support individuals with high earning potential who can be taxed and whose tax dollars will be reinvested into society?
These types of difficult issues emerge more prominently as budgets get tighter. That's why the concept of fiscal crisis in public schooling gets complex, confusing, and hotly debated in a hurry because all the players—from the governors, to state legislators, to education personnel, to parents, to special interest groups—have different perceptions of the two primary personal values of equity and efficiency.
You can see the reality of these two counternarratives in discussions surrounding the expansion of charter schools. Imagine suburban, white parents who support alternative public schooling options taking this point of view: "If our child is not being served in a particular public school, for us to make a more efficient use of our resources and our child's time, we're going to enroll him or her in an academic charter school because the school's primary focus is on instruction. We know that these education efforts will lead to high test scores, college attendance, and high future earnings."
On the other hand, you also hear these very same arguments in urban areas where greater proportions of low-income families and people of color reside. Some parents here might say, "We really do believe in public education—and we have for a long time. But because of the continued low performance of our neighborhood school, lack of quality teachers, and lack of equitable educational opportunities, we're going to enroll our child in an academic charter school because we know the school's primary focus is on instruction. And we know these educational efforts will lead to opportunities to attain high test scores, college attendance, and high future earnings." These parents support charter schools not because of any efficiency argument, but from an equity perspective—from a desire for increased educational opportunities.
Keeping these types of individual values in the back of your mind, it's also important to look at the structure of the state funding system. You don't have to be a school finance expert to just ask the question, What pieces of this formula are important to the state, and are these same pieces of the formula important to districts, schools, and children?
For example, your district may need to expand the school day because you have lots of single-parent families and there's no component in the state funding (or local revenue) that addresses that issue. By the same token, you may have a program that's been funded for 20 years that's now obsolete and needs to be eliminated. Talk with your state legislators, school board members, and principals and ask why certain things are in—or not in—the formula. Get educated on the issues of interest to you and then ask lots of questions.
Despite the current financial climate, I'm still quite optimistic about public schools. I'm still a strong believer that public schools can provide positive outcomes for the vast majority of children. I believe that most legislators, district personnel, teachers, and community leaders still believe in the primacy of successful public schools even though they may value different approaches.
People begin to walk down political paths to education policy success by having honest and open discussions on issues of equity and efficiency. Discuss how schools can craft equitable opportunities into efficient learning practices for students, teachers, and administrators, ensuring productive education systems.
Fine-Tuning the Cuts by James W. Guthrie
Educators down the road may look into history's rearview mirror and see the present as the "good ol' days" of school finance.
Assumptions and practices that have long been treated as sacred will fall victim to cost cutting. Here's where we're likely headed.
America's public schools have enjoyed annual revenue gains for more than a century. Throughout the industrialized world, only Switzerland spends more per pupil, and no other nation spends as much on schooling in the aggregate as does the United States.
These facts are contrary to conventional educator wisdom, yet confirmed by National Center for Education Statistics data. Only twice in the last 100 years has the nation's average year-over-year inflation-adjusted per-pupil spending stagnated—once in the Great Depression and once in World War II.
These good revenue times are about to come to a painful close. A stuttering economy, reduced tax receipts, sustained housing sector turmoil, senior citizens' competition for government services, daunting public debt, unfunded pension liabilities, and shrinking numbers of households with school-age children all portend less money for schools in the future.
Operational belt-tightening can be a partial fix. However, education's "big money" is in personnel. Over the past quarter-century, labor ratios for U.S. public schools have dropped from 28 students per professional educator to today's 15 students per professional educator. Overall school employee ratios have become more favorable too, from 15 students per school employee to today's 7.5 students per school employee.
Every other economic sector—for example, finance, communication, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing—has become more productive through deployment of modern technologies. Schools have moved in the opposite direction, with growth of personnel far outstripping enrollment increases. Given such labor intensity, the only way of coping with slowing revenue growth will be reconfiguring how people are paid and augmenting labor with technology.
Practices Under Scrutiny
Below is a list of practices vulnerable to budget cutting that school districts and states will likely debate in the near future:
- Paying teachers for out-of-field master's degrees. Economists can find little to link added academic degrees with elevated student achievement. Marguerite Roza of the Gates Foundation has calculated that school districts now pay hundreds of millions of dollars annually for such college credits.
- Salary increases for experience. Eighty-six percent of U.S. teachers receive a salary increase each year as a consequence of having an added year of classroom experience. This is regardless of their having more college credits or performing added out-of-the-classroom duties. This practice has come under intense scrutiny from econometric scholars.
- Reimbursing districts 100 percent for special education costs. This state practice provides a disincentive to act efficiently. Regardless of the levels of service offered—needed or not, efficient or not—the school district is reimbursed. Full reimbursement is an invitation to buy more or offer more than is needed because, in effect, it's "free."
- Last in, first out (LIFO) personnel provisions. The conventional practice of honoring seniority in layoff situations is coming into increasing disfavor. Protecting senior teachers at the expense of recently employed instructors is under attack for being dismissive of effectiveness and discriminating against youthful and often minority teachers.
- Instructional aides. It's difficult through empirical research to determine what contribution aides make to elevated student achievement.
- Class size. Research regarding the benefits of smaller classes is controversial and, at best, supports smaller classes only for the primary grades.
- Requiring that spending "supplement not supplant." The federal government and selected states require that financial subventions always be added on top of other general fund spending levels. This practice, although once justified to mitigate fraud and deceit, is now increasingly seen as an incentive for wasteful spending.
- End-of-budget-year surplus carryover. Where schools and districts are prohibited from carrying over unspent revenues, they are motivated to spend that which they are allocated, regardless of the wisdom of such an action. Inability to carry over unspent revenue encourages waste.
- Small schools. Small schools frequently are diseconomic to operate and limit students' course options. (The latter need not be true if the district employs distance learning and other digital supplements for instruction.) Added school closures in rural areas will assuredly be on the cost-cutting agenda.
Practices That Can Help
There are also more positive actions that can protect students and increase learning. Four in particular illustrate directions that states and school boards will likely explore.
- Augment labor with capital (technology). Because 80 cents out of every school district dollar is spent on personnel, significant cost saving can only occur if schools identify productive means for augmenting the labor of a classroom teacher, maintenance worker, or clerk with digital technology. Computer software, such as Read 180; distance learning through Kahn Academy; or better use of maintenance worker time through such solutions as SchoolDude, which offers online tools for facility management, are real-world examples of hitching technology to school district instructional and operational practices.
- Centralize school employees' health insurance at the state level. Most school districts presently arrange for employee health insurance through local vendors. Except in unusually large districts, this practice diminishes the opportunity to gain economies of scale. Purchasing insurance through statewide contracts can reduce per-employee cost.
- Outsource local services. Few school districts can operate their bus fleet, food service, or reprographics as efficiently as a private-sector vendor. It's highly likely that the practice of outsourcing will spread to various instructional and managerial services as well. Hospitals often outsource patient care components, such as their emergency room operations, to a medical provider company. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a state or large school district contracting with an education management company to take over the operation of its lowest-performing schools. Indeed, Nashville has just entered into such a contract with a firm from the United Kingdom.
- Adopt activity-based cost (ABC) accounting. To a layperson, this sounds somewhat silly. How can simply adopting a different accounting method save money? It will not save money quickly, but it might in the long run. Currently, school districts seldom know what any course offering or activity truly costs. What does it cost per pupil to teach mathematics in the 3rd grade? How much per pupil does it cost to offer physical education or teach ceramics? In the absence of greater accounting granularity, school districts use meat cleavers instead of budgetary scalpels when they have to reduce costs. They lay off teachers willy-nilly, instead of fine-tuning decisions far more accurately to determine what cost reductions would harm students least. Knowing that a class on ceramics costs twice per pupil than an algebra class might influence decisions about what to keep—and what to drop.
From: "Free Technology for Teachers" <richardbyrne@freetech4teachers.com>
Date: 9 de noviembre de 2011 04:44:31 GMT-05:00
To: galoperiscol <galoperiscol@gmail.com>
Subject: 9 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online and more
Reply-To: "Free Technology for Teachers" <richardbyrne@freetech4teachers.com>
9 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online and more
9 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online
Here are nine free tools that students can use to create their own music online.
Loop Labs is a free service from Club Create for creating your own music mixes using existing music loops and your own recordings. To get started using Loop Labs select from one of nine sound loop libraries. Within each library is a selection of base instrumental sounds. Browse through your chosen library until you find a sound you like. When you've found a sound you like click the "+" icon to add it to your mix. You can continue to add sounds until you have enough for your project. To have a sound played in your track just click on its timeline to hear it. Wherever you click on its timeline that sound will be played. You can also add a voice recording to your track or import sounds from your computer by clicking on the "record" button. Your finished project can be saved to your online Loop Labs account or downloaded as an MP3 file. In order to download your projects as MP3s you do have to Tweet or Facebook to your friends that you're using Loop Labs. Music Shake provides a free online tool for students to experiment with and create music from scratch. Like most of the other services in this list, Music Shake provides the instrumental sounds and students select the beats. Music Shake also has some vocal sounds that can be incorporated into a soundtrack. It is free to experiment with the service and play your music online, but you have to be a paying member in order to download your musical masterpiece.
Using Aviary's Roc service you can create your own music loops or samples. After you've created your music samples you can download them, reuse them in Myna, or embed them into your blog. Below you will find a brief tutorial on how to create sound loops using Aviary Roc.
Beat Lab is a free service through which you can experiment with thousands of sound and rhythm combinations. Using Beat Lab is easy. Beat Lab provides a grid on which you select the sounds you want to have played. You can specify how often you want each sound played and how quickly you want the sounds played. There are twelve default sounds provided in the Beat Lab grid. You can add more sounds by selecting "add more sounds" and choosing from the huge catalog of sounds. If the sound you want isn't available in the Beat Lab catalog you can upload your own sounds. Incredibox is a neat website that allows you to create unique rhythms and sounds from drag-and-drop menu. The sounds in the menus are recordings of a Bobby McFerrin-like artist making "human beat box" sounds. You can experiment with different sound loops, choruses, and instrumental sounds to create your own unique sound loops. To use Incredibox just head over to the website, select the English or French version, then start mixing sounds by dragging from the menu to the "people field." Every time you add a new sound a new person appears in the screen. Click a person to delete the sound he represents.UJAM is a service that aims to make everyone a singing sensation. Okay, so it might not make you a singing sensation, but it could help you create music tracks that you can share with friends and use in multimedia productions. Here's how UJAM works; you sing or play an instrument while recording to UJAM. When you're done recording, use UJAM to alter the sound quality of your voice, turn your voice into other sounds, adjust the tempo of your song, and or remix a song to include your recording. UJAM is essentially an online, light weight version, of Garage Band. Watch the video below to learn more and see UJAM in action.![]()
Soundation is a free service that allows anyone to create and remix sound tracks online. If you have used Apple's Garage Band or Aviary's Myna, Soundation will look familiar to you. Soundation provides five tracks on which you can place music clips and sound effects to mix together. To create your original work you can select from Soundation's gallery of 400 free sounds, upload your own sounds, or record new sounds using the instruments and keyboard built into Soundation. When you've created a product you like, you can download it or share it in Soundation's gallery.
From the same people that brought us the great computational search engine Wolfram Alpha comes Wolfram Tones. Wolfram Tones uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds. Visitors to Wolfram Tones can experiment with sounds and rhythms to make their own sounds. Wolfram Tones allows visitors to choose samples from fifteen different genres of music on which to build their own sounds. Once a genre is selected visitors can then alter the rhythms, instrumentation, and pitch mapping of their sounds. When satisfied with their creations, users can download their sounds or have them sent directly to their cell phones.
Having students experiment with rhythms on a drum set is usually a very loud experience for the students and for anyone within earshot of those students. That probably explains why my elementary school music class was held in a room behind the cafeteria kitchen and hundreds of yards away from any other classroom. Fortunately, developments in technology have made it possible for students to experiment with drum rhythms on a quieter scale than was previously possible. One such tool that makes this possible is Monkey Machine. Monkey Machine is a free web-based program that allows students to experiment with drum set sounds and rhythms. Using Monkey Machine students can customize the selection of drums and cymbals in their virtual drum set. Monkey Machine also allows students to customize the tempo in their drum tracks and the frequency with which each drum or cymbal is played. All tracks created using Monkey Machine can be downloaded as MIDI files.
Veengle - Create Your Own YouTube Video Compilations
Two months ago I wrote a post about twelve useful YouTube accessories. That list included tools for viewing YouTube without ads as well as tools for remixing YouTube content. Now I have another good tool to add to that list. Veengle is a free tool for creating compilation videos from the content you find on YouTube. Here's how it works; search for YouTube videos on Veengle, then select the portion of each video you want to include in your compilation, after you select each video portion click on "add to compilation" and that segment becomes a part of your compilation. There are some limited transition elements that you can add to your compilation to smooth the transition from one clip to the next. You can create as many compilations as you like. Your compilations can be shared on your favorite social networking sites or on your blog. Applications for Education
Veengle could be a good way for students to create mini documentary film. My initial thought is that students in a history class to could create a "video timeline" of sorts by creating a compilation video that includes segments about important events within a particular era. For example, I might ask US History students to create a chronological compilation of videos about Civil War battles.
Historic Map Works - Browse Hundreds of Historic Maps
One of my favorite Google Earth layers is the David Rumsey historical maps collection. This morning, through Google Maps Mania, I learned of another good place to find historical maps. Historic Map Works is an online gallery of hundreds of historical maps. On Historic Map Works you can browse for maps by continent, country, state, and province. Contrary to my initial experience, downloading the map images is not free. But, you can view more than half of the maps as Google Maps overlays using Historic Map Works's free Historic Earth Basic. Applications for Education
Historic Map Works could be a good place for students to find old maps to compare with current map views. One of the more interesting sets of maps on Historic Map Works is the Antiquarian maps collection. Have your students look through that collection to see how cartographers drew the world in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Another good historical maps tool that I like is History Pin. Post edited to clarify that downloading map images is not free, but viewing the maps is free.• http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~3/2SKD5Qd2yrk/historic... Map Works - Browse Hundreds of Historic Maps;4095632">Email to a friend • Article Search ••
More Recent Articles
Click here to safely unsubscribe from "Free Technology for Teachers." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribewww.feedblitz.com" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/feedblitz_logo_teeny.gif" border="0" align="middle" height="16" width="51" />
Your requested content delivery powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 9 Thoreau Way, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA. +1.978.776.9498
Disciplina Nombre Fecha Evento Medalla ![]()
Atletismo GARCIA Rosibel martes, 25 octubre 800m Femenil Bronce
FLORES Lina Marcela miércoles, 26 octubre 100m Vallas Femenil Bronce
IBARGUEN Catherine miércoles, 26 octubre Salto de Longitud Femenil Bronce
LOPEZ Luis Fernando domingo, 23 octubre Marcha 20km Varonil Bronce
HERNANDEZ Ingrid Johana domingo, 23 octubre Marcha 20km Femenil Bronce
CABALLERO Yolanda Beatriz lunes, 24 octubre 10000m Femenil Bronce
![]()
Boliche Colombia martes, 25 octubre Dobles Varonil Bronce
Colombia martes, 25 octubre Dobles Femenil Bronce
![]()
Boxeo MENA Isaia miércoles, 26 octubre Varonil +91kg-Pesado Bronce
![]()
Ciclismo BMX JIMENEZ Andres Eduardo viernes, 21 octubre BMX Varonil Bronce
![]()
Ciclismo de Pista GARCIA Diana Maria martes, 18 octubre Velocidad Femenil Bronce
Colombia lunes, 17 octubre Velocidad por Equipos Varonil Bronce
Colombia martes, 18 octubre Persecución por Equipos Femenil Bronce
![]()
Ecuestre Colombia domingo, 16 octubre Adiestramiento Equipos Bronce
![]()
Gimnasia Artística ESCOBAR Catalina jueves, 27 octubre Caballo de Salto Femenino Bronce
PEÑA Jorge Yesid jueves, 27 octubre Caballo con Arzones Masculino Bronce
![]()
Levantamiento de Pesas MERCADO Katherine domingo, 23 octubre Femenil 48 kg Bronce
RIVAS Lina Marcela lunes, 24 octubre Femenil 58 kg Bronce
SALAZAR Diego Fernando domingo, 23 octubre Varonil 62 kg Bronce
SANCHEZ Doyler Eustoquio lunes, 24 octubre Varonil 69 kg Bronce
![]()
Lucha LOPEZ Juan Carlos jueves, 20 octubre Varonil Grecorromana 55 kg Bronce
ASPRILLA Victor Alfonso jueves, 20 octubre Varonil Grecorromana 120 kg Bronce
CASTILLO Carolina sábado, 22 octubre Femenil Libre 48kg Bronce
ROA Sandra Viviana sábado, 22 octubre Femenil Libre 63 kg Bronce
MARTINEZ Juan Esteban lunes, 24 octubre Varonil Libre 96 kg Bronce
![]()
Patinaje Artístico PARRADO Leonardo lunes, 24 octubre Programa Libre Varonil Bronce
![]()
Racquetbol Colombia lunes, 24 octubre Equipos Varonil Bronce
![]()
Tenis CASTAÑO/DUQUE viernes, 21 octubre Dobles Femenil Bronce
![]()
Tenis de Mesa Colombia domingo, 16 octubre Equipos Femenil Bronce
![]()
Tiro con Arco PINEDA Daniel sábado, 22 octubre Individual Varonil Bronce
Juventud Colombiana ganadora
Disciplina Nombre Fecha Evento Medalla ![]()
Atletismo RENDON James Aurelio domingo, 23 octubre Marcha 20km Varonil Plata
![]()
Ciclismo de Pista PUERTA Fabian Hernando miércoles, 19 octubre Velocidad Varonil Plata
Colombia lunes, 17 octubre Velocidad por Equipos Femenil Plata
![]()
Esquí Acuático LINARES Maria Camila domingo, 23 octubre Figuras Femenil Plata
![]()
Gimnasia Artística GIRALDO Jorge Hugo miércoles, 26 octubre Concurso Individual Masculino Plata
GIRALDO Jorge Hugo jueves, 27 octubre Caballo con Arzones Masculino Plata
![]()
Levantamiento de Pesas RADA Sergio Armando domingo, 23 octubre Varonil 56 kg Plata
HEREDIA Jackelina lunes, 24 octubre Femenil 58 kg Plata
PALOMEQUE Nisida Esther martes, 25 octubre Femenil 63 kg Plata
ANDICA Carlos Hernan martes, 25 octubre Varonil 85 kg Plata
![]()
Lucha MOSQUERA Cristian Ferney jueves, 20 octubre Varonil Grecorromana 84 kg Plata
ANGULO Raul Andres viernes, 21 octubre Varonil Grecorromana 96 kg Plata
![]()
Natación PINZON Omar Andres viernes, 21 octubre 200m Dorso Varonil Plata
![]()
Squash COLOMBIA lunes, 17 octubre Dobles Femenil Plata
Colombia viernes, 21 octubre Equipos Femenil Plata
![]()
Taekwondo PATIÑO Doris Esmid domingo, 16 octubre Femenil menos 57kg Plata
![]()
Tiro CARO Danilo miércoles, 19 octubre Varonil Fosa Olimpica Plata
Juventud Colombiana ganadora