Rat Stands releases versatile new iPad stand –– from PadGadget.com by Lory
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The manufacturer of high-quality professional music stands, Rat Stands, has just announced the release of their newest creation, The Z3. What makes this new music stand so special is that it is an iPad stand. Created specifically for the iPad to hold the tablet at standing level heights, the Z3 is a versatile and lightweight mechanism for holding your tablet so that you don’t have to.
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What a great way to engage, inspire, involve students in music!
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In science and math classes across the country, digital tools are being used to conduct experiments, analyze data, and run 3-D simulations to explain complex concepts. Language arts teachers are now pushing the definition of literacy to include the ability to express ideas through media. This report, “Multimedia Transformation,” examines the many ways multimedia tools are transforming teaching and learning as schools work to raise achievement and prepare students for careers that require increasingly sophisticated uses of technology.
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Apple unveils iMessage, its BBM competitor, at WWDC — from engadget.com by Jacob Schulman
OS X Lion launching in July for $29.99 — from engadget.com by Donald Melanson
Apple’s iOS 5: all the details — from engadget.com by Vlad Savov
iCloud unveiled at WWDC, free for all 9 cloud apps, MobileMe RIP — from engadget.com by Joseph L. Flatley
Apple announces iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match — from engadget.com by Donald Melanson
Steve Jobs helps announce iCloud, new software — from theglobeandmail.com by Marcus Wohlsen,Michael Liedtke
Apple iCloud: Everything you need to know — from digitaltrends.com by Kelly Montgomery
From DSC:
Growing up with the music I did, I really liked this! It’s fun — and for some students, highly engaging! Thanks to Lee Wilson for posting it on his blog.
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Apple, Sonos, Cisco, and Crestron are also relevant companies that come to my mind in this arena.
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First, a word of caution. Due to the content of some of the stations available herein, I would recommend that only those people who are 18 or older visit this site.
Inside Stanford’s science fair on steroids: 10 brilliant student inventions — from digitaltrends.com by Jeff Hughes
All That Jazz … and Humor, Opera, Dance Music … — from The Library of Congress
[On May 10, 2011] the Library of Congress, in conjunction with Sony Music Entertainment, launched a website – “the National Jukebox” – that streams 10,000 sound recordings from the historic Victor Records collection. It’s a fun and fascinating ramble for anyone who loves American music and wants to dig down into the roots of jazz, opera, a vast range of popular music, famous political speeches — even early sound effects. The collection launched today (which will expand over time) is the soundtrack of our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ early lives – music from the dawn of sound recording just after the turn of the 20th Century to the eve of the Great Depression. The url is www.loc.gov/jukebox/.
Google Music Beta versus the titans of the streaming music space: A chart — from Engadget.com by Sean Hollister
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It feels like just yesterday we charted the streaming music landscape, but it’s already changed in a big way — Google is muscling in on the likes of Rhapsody, Pandora and particularly Amazon with its Google Music Beta. Being able to take 20,000 of your personal tunes, stream them over the web and cache them locally on your device isn’t functionality to sneeze at, so it’s time we updated our charts. After the break, see how the big streaming services stack up.
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I had put a picture of this opera house up once before as a picture of the day, but here is a subset of the pictures of this opera house that can be found via the above link:
