Music Composition

Grooveblender - great but you need to wait a little while for it to start, and you may need to download the Shockwave plugin

Sonic Postcards sound toys

BBC Making Tracks

Friends at Hoppy Hill

Sounds of the Street

Finding Sound

Find Sounds - sound effects

Audio Network - free music, will only work in school

SWGfL Media Gallery 

Partners in Rhyme

Write it then hear it in many voices - AT&T demo (save your creation as a .wav file)

Editing Sound

Audacity - the great free sound editing software, to download. If you want to publish your sound files online, you will also need to download the LAME Encoder, so you can save in MP3 format.

GUIDELINES TO AUDACITY.doc -  getting started guide to Audacity

Making the News - great way to publish sound online. Download the Making the News Getting Started Guide.doc

Sonic Postcards

Converting Sound Files

Most music composition software (as well as keyboards, etc.) can save music as midi files. Children can't import this into digital video software, Kar2ouche, Audacity etc, without converting it. The demo version of Midi2Wav is free to use for converting up to 10 seconds of sound from Midi to Wav. Most other sound file formats (eg WAV, AIFF, WMA and MP3) can be converted between each other using Free WMA MP3 Convertor.

Some Example Podcasts 

ITunes - once you have downloaded this program, you can browse for free podcasts on every topic from around the world (as well as buy music)

Some non-school podcasts (through ITunes) which might be useful are CBeebies Best Bits (Radio 7), Cooking with the Moms and Radio Disney Now. You can "listen again" though not download the BBC children's radio programmes Big Toe Books and Go4It. Through ITunes you can also get many school podcasts, including: The Downs FM, Guru Nanak Primary School, Podkids Australia and Wigginton Primary School.

You could also try listening to:

Radio Sandaig from Glasgow.

Prince Albert Junior and Infant School in Birmingham. Children have made traditional podcasts as well as putting lesson content in podcast form in home languages, for sharing with parents.

Wanborough Primary School