To all music teachers and musicians out there. Would you or your students like to be part of the world’s first online orchestra?
YouTube are inviting musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. “Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April 2009.”
A fascinating development. If there is a school district or authority out there that is still preventing access to this extraordinary site, send them the link.
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Although “best of…” posts tend to appear reasonably frequently, the good ones are worth their weight in gold. Here are a couple of blog posts summarising the best Web 2.0 applications of 2007, in so far as they relate to teaching and learning, and as proposed by Larry Ferlazzo and Silvia Tolisano:
Larry Ferlazzo’s best Web 2.0 applications for 2007
Langwitches best web 2.0 applications for elementary school
You are, of course, free to agree or disagree.
Please note that these were shared via the Classroom 2.0 network on Ning.
In an interesting postscript to my previous entry, The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online.
Though Google, Microsoft, the Internet Archive and recently Amazon have all launched major book digitisation projects, the Million Book Project represents the world’s largest, university-based digital library of freely accessible books. At least half of its books are out of copyright, or were digitised with the permission of the copyright holders, so the complete texts are, or eventually will be, available free.
It’s another great initiative and one to continue watching.
