As more and more classrooms move into the digital age, instructors are looking for ways to bring an interesting touch to their online lessons. HelloSlide is a wonderful way to transform a lesson into a audio-rich lesson that seems like a live presentation. Via Baiba Svenca Trascribe is a free online tool to help you with transcription of interviews or other audio files easily. Via Steve Yuen, Let's Learn IT 
In addition to books and video media, I have found a desire from students to put music and other sounds into their movies, presentations and projects. A well versed Library-Information Hub should know tools like this as well.
Here are nine free tools that students can use to create their own music online.
Via Jason Epstein 
This year is shaping up to be a watershed moment in music consumerism, right up there with the dawn of Napster in 1999 or the arrival of the iPod and iTunes in 2001. 
Aviary's Myna remixes audio and music... 
UJAM empowers everybody to easily create new music and share it with friends, for free. |
Voxopop is a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. Create a talkgroup for your language class today! Via Kathleen Cercone 
A donation-supported collection of royalty free music that can be used for any type of film production or web presentation (education, podcasts, blogs etc - ideal music for YouTube) or music for apps. Via Jason Epstein 
Convert Video Files To Audio - Download videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and more and convert them into audio formats like MP3... 
Google has great photo and video sharing services, however when it comes to audio there is a lot missing. A service like Audioboo or Soundcloud would be really great. Or simply the integration of audio in YouTube – in fact there are a lot of people who convert mp3 to video and upload it to YouTube. Actually, that would be one way of embedding audio into webpages that could be played by iOS devices as the YouTube player is HTML5 enabled. Via Let's Learn IT 
Convert your audio like music to other formats. We support over 50 input formats you can convert from. Optionally extract audio from a video. |
