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A sound is a resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. For example - a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds.

• 4 Minutes About Podcasting
  Podcasting is a kind of homespun Internet "folk radio." Podcasts can be listened to on computers and MP3 players (including the iPod). "Four Minutes about Podcasting is a short film that tells you why podcasting can make your life better, and shows you everything you need to know to set up a simple program to have new podcasts downloaded automatically." By writer and blogger Lisa Williams.
• African Music and Dance Ensemble
  The Ensemble broadens access to knowledge about Africa's rich cultural heritage across the United States, Canada and Europe. The Ensemble has taught the skill, artistry and philosophy that inform the African music and dance traditions.
• All About Jazz
  A comprehensive site, All About Jazz contains interviews, a photo gallery, articles, a wonderful interactive timeline, and more.
• American Folklife Center
  The American Folklife Center, which houses correspondence, artifacts, sound recordings, and photographs documenting folk arts, has showcased a number of its collections online.
• Animated Gifs, Backgrounds, Graphics, Icons, Sounds, Movies
  Great collection backgrounds, animated GIFs, icons, and other small graphics for student Web page designers. Additionally there are more than 150 sound files in WAV and MIDI formats and a very few movies in QuickTime and AVI formats.
• Archives of African-American Music&Culture
  Archives of African-American Music&CultureWeb site devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for the purpose of research and study of African-American music and culture.http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc.
• Bug Bytes
  A collection of more than forty insect sound files. Browse by species name or subject.
• Children's Butterfly Site
  This site is an good companion site for a unit on butterflies. It contains a photo gallery of butterflies from around the world and coloring pages describing the life cycle of butterflies in several languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch).
• Chinatown Banquet
  Chinatown Banquet A community-based public art and education project based on the metaphor of a Chinese banquet raising awareness about the history, culture and conditions of Boston Chinatown, the city's most densely populated residential neighborhood.
• Classical Music Search
  Identify melodies by playing a musical phrase on a digital piano keyboard! This search engine will sift through a database of more than 1,500 well-known classical compositions to create a list of pieces containing that phrase. The list produced by the search includes composer, title, and brief MIDI files.
• HistoricalVoices.org
  Historical Voices is creating "a significant...online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century." Galleries lists their eclectic collection of databases and links. Following another goal of the project, there is also research on "sound digitization, system architecture, federated searching, metadata implementations, online delivery, and multimedia education.
• Robin Whirlybird on Her Rotorcraft Adventures: NASA Website
  K-4 teachers can use the newly released 'Robin Whirlybird on her Rotorcraft Adventures' to engage young students in science while strengthening their language and vocabulary skills. The NASA Ames Educational Technology Team developed this online, interactive multimedia storybook that explains aeronautics and rotorcraft research to young children.
• Schools Online
  A searchable collection of study units for both students and teachers. Areas include plant science, incubation and embryology, worm anatomy, natural resources and the environment, apples, aging, sports and nutrition, and social development.
• The Coastal Ocean Observatory Laboratory room (aka COOLroom)
  The Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences (RMCS), in conjunction with the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR) has addressed the need for innovative materials that provide educators with the knowledge and skills they need to develop scientific literacy in their students The COOL Classroom is a series of Internet-based instructional modules that link middle and high school classrooms with active research investigations at the Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences (RMCS) COOLroom, a collaboration of oceanographers studying the coastal ocean off the coast of New Jersey. Here you will find information about how to use the COOL projects and printable teachers guides.
• The Digital Book Index
  A database of over 60,000 fiction and nonfiction e-books from over 1,800 publishers. Many categories of books are listed, including reference, history, children's, and African American studies.
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
  Features interviews with 23 former slaves (the oldest was 130 at the time of the interview). These nearly 7 hours ofrecordings provide a glimpse of what life was like for slaves & freedmen.