Monday, August 19, 2013

Ipad Review

The first App I ventured to use was one entitled "SoundHound." If you're anything like me you've always got you ear out for good. If you have ever asked yourself who plays that song, or what is that particular lyric, soundhound helps you find out at the a simple touch of the touch screen. When a song is playing just open the app and touch the screen and up will come the artist, the album, the title, as well as the lyrics. At the end of the day you can view your history and see all the songs you looked up.

The second app I used also had to do with music, it was called "Pandora."Pandora is an Internet Radio station that filters and plays songs according to a particular artist or genre that you like. All you do is type in what you like and pandora will play that music as well as music like it. It comes with a thumbs up or thumbs down option so if you like a song hit thumbs up, if you don't like song hit thumbs down and pandora will never play that song on the playlist again. if you get tired of listening to regular radio I would definitely recommend this.\

I feel these two apps could be utilized in music classrooms. For instance if the class is studying a particular kind of artist lyrics can be accessed through sounhoud. Artist description and history can be seen through Pandora, and if a teacher would like to play music in the classroom either one can be used to play the music.

2 comments:

  1. These are excellent reviews! How can they support learning in the classroom? There are several interesting approaches to teaching History through music and song. I can see this app being useful in that way.

    http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/1996/9609/9609tea1.cfm

    Add a little something to the reviews about how you might use this in your classroom and like to a resource like the one I gave you to receive full credit

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  2. Thanks! Good connections to how you might use these tools in the classroom!

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