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Soundowl is a place where artists, musicians and producers can upload their musical products. But at this time of writing, Soundowl website is down. We hope to see it soon online.

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14 Websites to Find Free Creative Commons Music

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14 Websites to Find Free Creative Commons Music

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14 Websites To Find Free Creative Commons Music

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Do you use Creative Commons in any online project? When it comes to Creative Commons music -- there are certainly no shortage of websites with audio you can use for any occasion.

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Imagine a movie or video without sound effects. Even a magnificent film like Titanic would look nothing more than a joke if there are no 'Wham', 'Bam' and 'Smash' sounds in it. Background music and sound effects are important for making a video (or even an audio production) engaging and in its full essence.

There are thousands of online resources to download sound effects, however, not all of them can offer you high-quality material that's also free. So, in this post, I am listing 50+ cool websites to download just about any type of sound effect for free. Let's get on with it.
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SampleSwap - SampleSwap offers professional quality loops and audio samples - a total of 7.7 GB of free sounds in techno, hip-hop, and a lot more categories.

AudioMicro - AudioMicro offers plenty of sound effects with high-quality audio content. These include animal sounds, electronic sounds, horror and Halloween sounds, etc.

Sound Fx by Flash Kit - Flash Kit offers thousands of sounds in MP3 and FLASHTRAK formats. You can quickly navigate to right sounds from categories like ambience, people, etc.

GRSites - GRSites includes approximately two thousand sound effects for free such as background sounds, car sounds, comics sounds, industry sounds, and lots more.

SoundGator - SoundGator allows you to browse sound effects through their list of categories, which includes unique sounds like that of a typewriter, smoke alarm, etc.

PlayOnLoop - PlayOnLoop offers premium quality sound effects, which are ideal for any creative media works and suit professional artists and creators.

Opsound - Opsound hosts hundreds of sound effects in a wide range of categories and genres namely ambient, classical, country, disco, indie, jazz, ringtone, etc.

JL Recording Studios - JL Recording Studios lets you use the sound effects for your own production house. It includes a broad category of music like bird sounds, environmental sounds, etc.

MediaCollege.com - Similar to the above sites, MediaCollege.com offers sound effects for your commercial or personal projects. They are free and arranged in categories.

Free Sound Effects Collections - Music for video provides different categories of sound effects and music clips. You can download and use these sounds for free on your video/multimedia productions. The sounds in this part of the website are for people working on video production, video montage, and multimedia projects and etc.

SoundsCrate - SoundsCrate offers various sounds for your creative and visual experiments. It also avails an option to search for all types of audio using keywords.

Free Music Archive - Free Music Archive is a complete database of royalty-free sound effects, which can be played online or downloaded to use in your creative projects.

3dmm Studio - 3dmm Studio has compiled and categorised several sound packs. Rubin's '3dmm Sound' packs require you to import the .3mm file into your movie, where-as the packs complied by Will Cheyney are standard zips with categorised .wav files.

VocalDownloads - The royalty-free sound effects from VocalDownloads provide clear audio and come in WAV format. You can play a track online as well as download it.

Boogie Jack - Funny, weird, annoying... you'll find all kinds of sound effects at Boogie Jack.

eSoundz - eSoundz has an updated library of free sound effects that come in packages. These are produced by professional artists like guitarists and keyboardists.

soundsnap - Search for, preview and download royalty free sound effects for immediate use in your multimedia project. These high quality royalty free sound effects are hand-picked from only the best sound designers.

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50+ Sites to Download Free Sound Effects for Almost Everything - Hongkiat

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Imagine a movie or video without sound effects. Even a magnificent film like Titanic would look nothing more than a joke if there are no 'Wham', 'Bam' and 'Smash' sounds in it. Background music and sound effects are important for making a video (or even an audio production) engaging and in its full essence.

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BeatPick - Music for Film, TV, Slideshows and more

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BeatPick - Music for Film, TV, Slideshows and more

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After nearly two decades, BeatPick.com is officially offline. Since 2006, we've had the privilege of supporting incredible artists and sharing their work with audiences worldwide. The sync licensing business in the music industry has evolved dramatically over the years. While it's time for BeatPick to step aside, we reflect with pride and gratitude on everything we've accomplished together.

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Soundation Studio for Chrome supports drag and drop of audio and midi from your computer to the studio. You can even drag and drop to your My Files folder, create new folders, rename, move and delete files and see your storage usage. Check our accounts page to see how much storage you can get.

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It's never been simpler to use sounds and music when teaching - as long as you have a good internet connection. Learners too need access to sound libraries for their digital projects and here are some suggestions to dip into whenever necessary:

And a recent suggestion by Nik Peachey:

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It's never been simpler to use sounds and music when teaching - as long as you have a good internet connection. Learners too need access to sound libraries for their digital projects and here are some suggestions to dip into whenever necessary: And a recent suggestion by Nik Peachey:

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How can teenagers, especially those with a talent for music, spend time over their long summers?

One option is to explore NoiseTrade. NoiseTrade is a site where musicians can sign up and create their NoiseTrade widget with their music. Visitors can then sample their music through their widgets and download their music. They can also embed the widget in their website or social network. Downloading is free and legal.

NoiseTrade is also a great place to begin exploring new musicians and musical trends.

The FreeSound Project is a collaborative database of sounds. You won't find songs but there is a wealth of sounds to choose from which can be added to presentations and podcasts, for example.

And now that you have a selection of music and sounds, what next? DropTunes is similar to DropBox but instead of documents, you can keep sound files which you can then easily access.

Do you have any favourite sites for music and sounds that you would like to share?

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photo © 2010 opensource.com | (via: Wylio) more info How can teenagers, especially those with a talent for music, spend time over their long summers? One option is to explore NoiseTrade. NoiseTrade is a site where musicians can sign up and create their NoiseTrade widget with their music.

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Music surrounds our lives, whether in the car, supermarket or personal listening devices. Today's suggestions are a brief reminder of a couple of music related sites which are great to introduce to brighten up any winter class. MusicPopQuiz offers players a choice of musical genres ranging from pop to jazz, indie to folk music.

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In a world changing so quickly, it is worth taking time to stop, to think back and remember. Cityscapes and landscapes change, habits change, teaching approaches change. So much of these changes have happened quickly; others have been more gradual; both provoking the recent past to slip into memories or oblivion.

What sounds do you remember of your childhood? What sounds do you remember falling asleep to? What sounds do you remember in kitchens and around the home?

Storytelling helps us to detangle the present, to make sense of contemporary life. Storytelling also looks back into the past, whether recent pasts or mythical. Narratives emerge to give meaning to events but most of all, to make sense of where one finds him/herself at a certain point in time. With visuals, words and sounds - all this too is learning.

A beautiful project for narratives is

Conserve the Sound is an online museum for sounds which used to be part of our daily lives and have either vanished or are in the process of disappearing altogether. By clicking on different items, you can hear the sound it makes. There are also interviews and videos, which further enrich this online museum.

CONSERVE THE SOUND - Teaser from CHUNDERKSEN on Vimeo.

There are many different kinds of activities educators can introduce to learners by visiting this online museum - including asking learners to contribute to their own class sound museum.

Sustainability is usually related to keeping the environment healthy, fighting poverty, to food supplies and so on. In terms of narratives, developing and maintaining an online museum may also be another aspect of sustainability at a different level, i.e. sustaining elements which have been embedded in our lives but no longer are being used.

They are part of what defines us.

They were stepping stones of change.

Supporting Sustainable Development

Free Sound for Educators and Learners

Creativity, Global Issues and the English Language Classroom

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In a world changing so quickly, it is worth taking time to stop, to think back and remember. Cityscapes and landscapes change, habits change, teaching approaches change. So much of these changes have happened quickly; others have been more gradual; both provoking the recent past to slip into memories or oblivion.

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Days when I could use colours on my skin rather than speak worlds of words.

Days when it is the visual, not the verbal, that expresses what I feel, what I think, what I would like to verbalise but find tedious in a world made up of so many cacophonous corridors. It is not silence that I seek. It is expression. Visual, bold, emboldening.

There are so many reasons and teaching activities where the use of images makes more immediate sense than long winds of verbal explanations. Images inspire, images provoke, images soothe.

And when it comes to classrooms, learners are very often asked to use images for their projects and tasks.

So, the challenges for educators is where to find images, image banks which are free, suitable and interesting for students. I find many image sources for education quite boring and dull - however, I do not work with young learners and understand that in those contexts there does need to be a lot of monitoring of appropriate images. Here are some other suggestions which are worth browsing through:

Skitterphoto is free and does have different, bright images which may be used in class; it also has an archive where it is possible to browse through past uploaded images, as well as a page for different categories of images.

Inspiration-IM Creator is also an interesting site to look around for some beautiful images that may be used by teachers and students.

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Days when I could use colours on my skin rather than speak worlds of words. Days when it is the visual, not the verbal, that expresses what I feel, what I think, what I would like to verbalise but find tedious in a world made up of so many cacophonous corridors.

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Do you ever travel through images?

Do you ever wonder about what the images represent, how the photographer felt as he/she shifted their gaze and froze a moment? What they really saw and what you see?

There may be shifts of meanings, shades of perception, spaces in between what one sees and another wishes to express.

Regardless of subject, there are always uses for images in classroom. Below are some suggestions for teachers and students alike.

Loupe Collage is as the name suggests, a creator of collages,

offering different themes and shapes. One may use only one image or more. And yes, free to use. You can download the image, share on social media, as well as embed it.

You can also create cards and even look for Waldo if inspiration is low.

Meme Generator creates memes - a fun activity for learners, especially at the end of term or semester (or any time!). MakeaMeme is another choice for memes.

Fotojet is another free online collage maker which also creates cards and posters.

Last suggestion for the day, is why not transform your class into unicorns with Unicornify? You only need to pop in an email and the generator will create a unicorn, which then can be added to a Padlet to showcase a whole group of learning unicorns!

If you teach a language class, each learner can add a speech bubble to their unicorn and include it in the Padlet - for example, what they remember from classes, what have they learnt, what do they feel they need to improve. Possibilities are as endless as unicorns themselves!

Further Suggestions:

Learning Visually with Themes

Visualising Data

Clipping the Art

Blow Me Away with Images

Posters, Images and Metaphors

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Do you ever travel through images? Do you ever wonder about what the images represent, how the photographer felt as he/she shifted their gaze and froze a moment? What they really saw and what you see? There may be shifts of meanings, shades of perception, spaces in between what one sees and another wishes to express.

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5 Sites to Play Music & Make Noise Just by Typing

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5 Sites to Play Music & Make Noise Just by Typing

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5 Sites to Play Music and Make Noise Just by Typing

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Keyboard sounds can take the dullness out of typing. If you miss the days when you could make a lot of noise by typing, don't worry: these apps bring that back.

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Royalty-Free Stock Audio Download- Storyblocks

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Storyblocks royalty free stock audio library is your one-stop shop for the unlimited audio you need to tell your story.

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Discover Canva’s beautiful photos and images for your every day design needs. Choose from millions of highly curated free and premium stock photos.

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Every now and then I come across sites which are really useful for dipping into for visuals and can be shared with colleagues and students alike. Below are some suggestions.

Picography - fairly straight-forward to use; you can scroll through images or use the tool bar to search for a topic or theme.

Gratisography gives you the option to either browse

or search through images or to subscribe.

Snappy Goat will bring up a selection of related images after you type in the theme/topic in the tool bar. A similar source is Free Images with images and clipart.

With a more interesting variety, at least for me, are these that follow below:

RawPixel - has a mix of images which are free and in the public domain, while others are for sale. You do, however, need to sign up and have an account to access the free images for download. You can also save your favourite images in your account.

A similar source is Unsplash where you create an account, and organise your favourite images according to themes/topics

of your choice. You can also share your collections with others.

PicWizard is yet another image library where you can sign up for an account, browse, search as well as give up a thumbs-up (or down) for images. You can see how many others have viewed that particular image and how often it has been downloaded. And you can also keep track of your own personal favourites in this visual library.

For more sites on visuals and design, have a look here where you can find much, much more on images.

What other sources do you use for free images?

Digital Delights - Images & Design

Visuals for Storytelling

Editing Images and Image Sourcing

10 Intriguing Photographs to Teach Close Reading and Visual Thinking Skills

Adding Magic to Images

Free Images for the Classroom
Create your own Jigsaw

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Every now and then I come across sites which are really useful for dipping into for visuals and can be shared with colleagues and students alike. Below are some suggestions. Picography - fairly straight-forward to use; you can scroll through images or use the tool bar to search for a topic or theme.

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Free Stockphotos for personal and commercial use You can use this high-resolution pictures on your personal and commercial projects for free. All pictures on the website snapographic.com were capture 🚀

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Many of the posters held by the Art and Architecture Collection were the gift of Anna Palmer (Mrs. Henry) Draper, who was, until her death in 1914, an important donor and supporter of the Library. The sources for much of the rest of the collection are unclear, although identification on a number of posters points to the collection of Theodore J.