Sunday, March 29, 2009
Pandora
I just checked out the website www.pandora.com and love it. You type in what kind of music you want to listen to by putting in an artist, song or genre and it creates a playlist for you. Sometimes at school, I struggle to find appropriate music to play for my students. Although they think listening to rap would be the best, obviously the lyrics make that impossible. But I feel it is getting harder and harder to choose appropriate music that is not considered "babyish." So many of the lyrics have inuendos that just cannot be played at school. I don't think they even know what some of the songs are suggesting. (At least I hope they don't know!)I thought the website was nice because it suggests songs you might not have heard before which adds some variety. You would need to preview the song list before playing it, but it is a free online tool that could made kid-friendly with a little work.
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I have been using Pandora for a while. I have it set as a tab on my homepage so it is always easily accessible. Be careful if you plan to use it at school--it is often blocked in Owatonna. (Oddly, this seems to change day to day)
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