Internet+Radio

= Music, a great tool for learning! =

As a teacher in the future, I want music to be a part of my teaching methods. Youtube is a good resource for one song at a time or for songs with video accompaniment. Teachers run into problems if they do not have their own way to download and keep music (ITunes, Windows Media Player). However, there are wonderful ways to keep music on the internet! By using these internet radios you can easily access music anytime!

Let's start with examples.

1) Pandora @http://www.pandora.com/account/sign-in

Pandora uses technology to combine different artists into radio "stations" for the user. If you type in a -- Favorite Artist/Composer -- Favorite Genre -- Favorite Song

Pandora will run with that suggestion and create a radio station that has components and styles including that artist, song, composer etc. and ones that are similar.

As you can see from the above screenshot, my pandora account has a number of stations of my favorite artists. The only negative about Pandora is that one has no control of what songs play in what order. The good thing about this is that I am constantly introduced to new artists and songs that I love! If you need music to play during a silent activity or just as a background effect, Pandora is perfect! However, if you need a specific song for classroom use, Pandora would not help. That sounds like a job for our next example...

2) Spotify @http://www.spotify.com/us/

Spotify is a great place to organize music that is accessible on anywhere that has downloaded the software! Spotify lets you create playlists and store them on your account as long as you want them there! Spotify has tons of music available; you can search a song, album, artist, composer, or genre; you can save it and come back to it later.

Spotify lets you easily -- Listen to a wide variety of music of your specific choice -- Share music with your friends on Spotify and other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. -- Create tons of playlists for different uses! -- See what your friends are listening to.

Personally, I started with Pandora but moved on to Spotify and use it very frequently. I like to search artists and keep them in playlists to hear at my leisure. For teaching, Spotify would be easy to screen songs ahead of time and make specific playlists for my classroom time. I wouldn't have to download or buy any songs (or carry them on my personal computer), only put them on my Spotify!

For both sites, making accounts is SO easy!

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For More Information, go to: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio For more examples visit these sites: Grooveshark @http://grooveshark.com/ Jango @http://www.jango.com/ Sirius @http://www.siriusxm.com/