Primary Sources:
Week Three and Four:
The Science of Listening - Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (including Paper by Rose and Dalton).
http://www.learningthroughlistening.org/Listening-A-Powerful-Skill/The-Science-of-Listening/44/
Kosslyn, Stephen: Clear and To the Point, Oxford University Press, 2007, Chapters 1,2,3 and Appendix.
Web Version (very short) http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/powerpoint/
Understanding Media: Resources on Neuropsychology of Sound and Speech
Music and the brain: an audio presentation
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/May/hour2_050903.html
Music and the brain: lots of references and activities
http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/music.html
Audio Illusions:http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/auditory.html
Sound recognition
http://www.ihear.com/
National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders: lots of research
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
The deaf, sign language and spatial cognition:
http://www.jrmilner.com/portfolio/harvard/t560/project1/index.html
Cognitive Daily: Articles about music and cognition and emotion
http://cognitivedaily.com/?cat=10
On being Tone Deaf:
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/jan/tonedeaf/020116.tonedeaf.html
Designing Media: Universal Design of Sound and Speech
NCAM (at WGBH): Lots of info and tools on captioning and sound accessibility
http://ncam.wgbh.org/
Sign Language and other visual representations as an alternative:
http://www.handspeak.com/
Reading to deaf children:
http://www.srvop.org/
Robotic Hand: translates speech into ASL
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20060116TDY19003.htm
On Making Better Presentations: Presentation Zen
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/
Beyond Bullets: Another Blog about Oral Presentations
http://www.beyondbullets.com/
PowerPoint: The worst case scenario
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm
Tufte on PowerPoint Disabilities:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1
Dancing Dots: Music creation tools for students who are blind
http://www.dancingdots.com/
PRX: radio presentations to learn from:
http://www.prx.org/
PRX junior: students and audio creation:
http://generation.prx.org/
Additional Resources on Music and Sound Effects
Sheet Music and Player Online:
http://www.sheetmusicdirect.us/i18n/index.jsp=6138&tid=9591468&quantity=1&printed=0
Music into Art
http://www.paintingmusic.com/index.html
Chatterbots: Programs that talk like us
http://www.simonlaven.com/
Music and Learning BSO: "Online Conservatory
"http://www.bso.org/itemB/detail.jhtml?id=12300008&area=bso
Learning to Read and Write Music:
http://datadragon.com/education/links.html
Teaching Music Online:
http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
Sound effects: a web collection
http://www.sounddogs.com/start.asp
Learning through listeningPodcasting: a hub
http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2006/01/apple_itunes_u.html
NYTImes on Podcasting in Education
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25podcast.html?ex=1146110400&en=63e8f4d84cc5ae36&ei=5070
Large Collection of speeches and audio lectures: mostly free
http://www.learnoutloud.com/
Audiobooks:
http://audiobookcafe.com/
Poetry spoken by Poets:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
Third Coast Audio: another collection of audio presentations:http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/index.asp
Library of Great Lectures:http://www.thegreatlecturelibrary.com/index.php?select=content&data=20
For fun
On-line DJhttp://www.turntables.de/start.htm#
