Source: Citizen DJ / Homepage
Citizen DJ is a project from the Library of Congress offering a way to take samples from th Library of Congress and remix them in to new songs. There is a browser based mixer to combine the beats. Once you have the selection the way you want, you can download the wav file to assemble a song in Audacity, GarageBand, or Soundtrap.
For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its collections onto an open access online platform for patrons to peruse and download free of charge. Featuring data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo, the…
Source: Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online | Open Culture This collection may be more of interest to history classes versus primary and intermediate classes. The books look really interesting, I really like Elfin Rhymes (mentioned in the article). Since these books are in the Public…
Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. Source: The cheap pen that changed writing forever – BBC Future A fascinating look at one of the best educational technology tools ever invented, the ballpoint pen. Whenever…
Dot Piano is an online electric piano that can use your computer’s keyboard or a midi computer to play and record a song online. Pretty cool to play, and if I was still in the music classroom, I would be trying this out with my students! Here’s a neat recording to watch and listen.
Google announced at ISTE 2019 the release of the Chromebook App Hub, a collection of web apps and ideas for teachers and students to use. Although it is called the CHROMEBOOK App Hub, most of the ideas and web apps work on any browser, so feel free to browse even if you are not a…
Source: Storytelling | Arts and humanities | Khan Academy Disney’s Imagineering in a box consists of two different takes on the storytelling process. The first class, Imagineering in a box, takes participants through several lessons on what goes on when designing theme parks and attractions. The second class, Pixar in a box: the art of…