January Treats
This is the view from the dike at Boundary Bay looking south towards Crescent Beach in the foreground (left) and Mount Baker (backgorund). The bird is a blue heron. My husband I and drive for 15 minutes to this wonderful spot to walk our dog, Thelma, and ourselves. Thelma is a shelter special who comes from Alberta, but like so many 'transplants' from other parts of Canada who have found their way to the West Coast, she loves the sea. In the summer we take her out onto the tide flats where she races with abandon through puddles and then lies on her belly and rolls over on her side in deeper pools. I think for her it's like going to the spa for an hour. For us it's a chance to laugh together at her antics.
What follows is a good starter list of music sites providing sound files which students can use in their video projects. Please remind them to give credit to these generous artists.
Thanks to Simon Slangen a 17 year old student in Belgium for this information: The Best Sites to Download Free Music -- "not the torrent or limewire kind; the I-take-it-without-paying-so-it’s free, but music released under creative licenses."
Opsound is "an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine."
This collection located in the Internet Archive. "Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download."
A collaborative data base of CC licensed sounds and songs, they're looking for contributions and ask: "Do you have students who can help us by doing (field-)recordings as assignments?"
Kevin MacLeod's website has free music and other Gallimaufry: "a collection of small items that fit nowhere else" which he has posted for us all to use.
Comments, additions, and corrections gratefully received.
