Web Apps and Such

In class last week, we dsicussed musical activites, games, etc. that can be accessed online, and one that I have found is called and I have found that it has some really neat games on it that I think would be appropriate in a middle school clasroom setting. http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp is another link that I have found helpful especially for younger students, and although a lot of the sounds are not exactly ideal representations of their instruments, there are a number of fun games and learning tools on here that I think could be used well in a classroom. http://www.virtualpiano.net/ is a link to a virtual piano that I know could be used for a number of classroom activities, including learning the note names in relation to the piano keys, learning about chords, etc. http://www.pandora.com/ Pandora radio is a web app that I use often. Although the classical music is not the greatest here, I find that so many other styles are easy to search, and I like that it tells you why it chose which pieces it did for your playlist. It tells you which characterists your pieces share with the ones that it chose. http://soundcloud.com/ I know we use soundcloud often when we put choir recordings on our study site to listen to, so this is definitely a useful tool. http://hypem.com/ Hypem is an app that I had never heard of, but I wanted to look up at least one new app for this blog so that I could check it out and see if anyone else gets any use out of it. It seems like something that I wouldn't use very much, but maybe I'm wrong... its a way to look at other music blogs, so there could be some hidden vaue in it. Also, in class we discussed NoteFlight. It is something that I don't think I"ll use yet, because I do have Sibelius on my computer, but I can definitely see the value in it (I mean it's free, and what college kid doesn't like free stuff?). It looks lise something that students could potentially learn to use as well, should I be lucky enough to end up in a school where we have access to computers for things like that.