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Myna – a web based audio creation site. See the Myna Demo. It looks cool. It shows what can be done and how easy something that used to take specialty equipment can now be done.

Ill admit, I haven’t tried Myna. It was just something I noticed while perusing a new 2.0 Webside called Electric Chalk (now in my Blogroll)  I’m into Audacity and find bandwidth a challenge at times, and I spent too many years working where web link was unreliable.  Same reason I don’t link to You Tubes, but instead download them so that I “have” them whether the web is working or not.

Anyway, cool site, cool tool.

I have recently had the privilege of teaching Audacity to other teachers. I’ve also been working very hard to update some of our “old fashioned” projects into 21st Century products — and podcasts are my current favorite format. Kids love the outcome and work hard — I think they are learning and are more engaged. My teachers seem to agree.

One of the great benefits of teaching adults is meeting other excellent teachers. We often circulate just among our known colleagues, and a need to take advantage or more opportunities to widen my circle. I met some great eduators. John H. was one of those teachers. I was using ripped music for podcasts, and talked about the need to find royalty free music.

John sent me this link to Larry Ferlazzo’s blog. This entry has a collection of royalty free music. It looks like good blog, and I am going to peruse further and consider adding him to my blogroll. Maybe I’ll search the Teacher Librarian Ning and see if he wants to be my friend (maybe that’s why I haven’t jumped further into the social networking thing — I feel like a 2nd grader asking people, “do you want to be my friend?”).

Anyway and excellent link to a need — royalty free music.