A great post and activity from the music tech teacher here at my school. He just finished a project with the University of Vermont Music Department and his grade 7 Music Tech class. They used the web to join classrooms in real time to share ideas and concepts. The students in Vermont were responsible for putting together a lesson for the grade 7 students on writing and composing melodies. Full story here.

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The Best Ways to Discover Music Through Twitter

The main reason you should use Twitter to find music anyway is that once you find a like-minded fan on the network, you can follow their feed. If you keep doing this, your Twitter account will develop as a passive music discovery engine. Eventually you won’t need to do much — music will be delivered to you on the proverbial silver platter, courtesy of the thousands (or millions) of people who regularly post music to the network. Full story here.