Links to Useful Web Sites
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General Information
UMN-specific Information
Software & Tutorials
- Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/) - a free, cross-platform audio editor
- iLife tutorials (http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/) - Apple's incredibly intuitive multimedia suite, including iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, & iWeb
- iPod 101 (http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/) - tutorials for use of Apple's portable media player
- iWork tutorials (http://www.apple.com/support/iwork/) - the Apple suite of basic applications, including Pages, Keynote, & Numbers
- OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) - a free, open-source solution that creates files compatible with Microsoft's Office software suite of applications
- Short Cuts (http://www.nobledesktop.com/shortcuts.html) - handy 1-page guides containing keyboard shortcuts for some of the most popular software programs
Technology
Education Sites
- 100 Music Education Bloggers (http://mustech.net/projects/100-me-bloggers_
- 4Teachers (http://4teachers.org/) - a site to facilitate technology integration into the classroom
- Apple Education (http://www.apple.com/education/)
- Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/)
- Dell Educational Technology (http://www.dell.com/us/en/k-12/df.aspx?refid=df&cs=RC1084719&s=k12)
- Edutopia: George Lucas Educational Foundation (http://www.edutopia.org/) - exellent site of educators, students, & community leaders; contains examples of best practices and articles on emerging technologies
- Khan Academy (http://khanacademy.org/) - 800+ YouTube tutorials covering math, sicence, and finance problems
- Merlot (http://www.merlot.org/) - a peer-reviewed searchable collection of online learning materials
- MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/) - a website that contains almost all content from MIT courses
- Music Matters (http://musiccognition.blogspot.com/)
- Online College Courses (http://www.onlinecollegeclasses.com/) - a free compendium of educational multimedia content from around the web.
- So You Want to Teach? (http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/)
- Teaching Music in the 21st Century (http://teachingmusic.posterous.com/)
- TedTalks
- Webcast.Berkeley (http://webcast.berkeley.edu/) - a collection of podcasts & webcasts from the University of California, Berkeley
- YouTube EDU (http://www.youtube.com/edu/) - a collection of videos and channels from higher education institutions
Education Sites
Value added Modeling
- Braun, H.I. (2005). Using student progres to evaluate teachers: A primer on value-added models. Educational Testing ervice. Available at: http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICVAM.pdf
- Hanushek. E.A., & Rivkin, S.G. (2010). Using value-added measures of teacher quality. National Center for Analysis of Longitundinal Data in Education. Available at: http://urban.org/uploadedpdf/1001371-teacher-quality.pdf
- Hibpshman, T. (2004). A review of value-added models. Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board. Available at: http://kyepsb.net/documents/Stats/Journals/Heterogeneity of regression.pdf
- McCaffrey, D.F., Lockwood, J.R., Koretz, D.M., & Hamiltong, L.S. (2003). Evaluating value-added models for teacher accountability. Rand Corporation. Available at: http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG158.pdf
- other links to other related resources from Teacher Quality Research: http://teacherqualityresearch.org/value.htm
- Value-Added Research Center (Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison): http://varc.wceruw.org/
Rock Music Resources
Media
- Auralization (http://auralization.tkk.fi/node/17/) - anechoic symphony orchestra recordings, free for use in research
- Everystockphoto.com (http://everystockphoto.com/) - a search engine for finding free images on the web
- Incompetech (http://incompetech.com/) - royalty-free music & other resources for educational use
- kitZu (http://kitzu.com/) - digital kits for education, contianing copyright-friendly packages of images, text, video, & audio
- Pics4Learning (http://pics4learning.com/) - thousands of free images for educational use
- NASA multimedia (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/) - incredible collection of media, free for educational & informational use
- Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) - another collection of media that is free for educational use
Organizations & Societies
Tools online
- random number generators (http://www.random.org/) - a variety of online types of random number generators
- timers (http://timeme.com/) - a variety of online times
- currency converter () - convert from one currency to another, including historical information (http://www.xe.com/ict/)
- text annotation (http://www.co-ment.net/) - allows the addition of annotated comments about text documents; includes draft history of revisions
- Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/) - free, online production suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, & presentation creator
- UMN Google Docs (http://docs.umn.edu/) - UMN version of Google Docs [coming soon!]
- SplashUp (http://splashup.com/) - free, online image editor
- Photoshop (https://www.photoshop.com/) - free, onlineversion of Photoshop; reduced feature set and limited to 2 MB of space
Notation Resources
- Petrucci Music Library (International Music Score Library Project) - an internet-based collaborative music score library wher you will find tens of thousands of scores composed by thousands of composers here, all in the public domain and available for free download
- CCARH Publications: Scores & Parts (Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities) - a limited selection of downloaded scores & parts for non-commercial use
- NMA Online (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version) - library of Mozart's compositions for free download for educational use and personal study
Copyright