Copyright for 21st Century Skills

Soundzabound Our Soundz President gives opening comments at Garland ISD, Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSF6UhjrPK0

Soundz November 2009 "Better than a Newsletter"

Soundz November "Better than a Newsletter"http://bit.ly/pDBv4

Barry Starlin Britt Delivers Keynote Speech to OUS BOCES

Tuesday November 3, 2009

President and Co-founder of Soundz Int'l Barry Starlin Britt gives keynote to Orange-Ulster-Sullivan BOCES in Middletown, NY.

Get the downloadable presenation at www.soundzabound.com/community.

Presentation Title:

21st Century Skills - Progressive, Safe, Secure, same as BOCES Fall Conference Download.

Enjoy!

Soundzabound Team

"Perez Hilton is the latest thug to use a bogus copyright claim to get an embarrassing video removed from YouTube."

Funny, we started warning several years ago this type of thing would happen. Regardless of where you stand on this issue, our thoughts about Fair Use and Branding ring true. It's the age in which we all now live and work.

http://tiny.cc/KORHi

Training at Orange Ulster BOCES

Orange Ulster BOCES Training on November 3rd, Barry Starlin Britt as Keynote Speaker-http://tinyurl.com/y9oe9sr

Prez of Soundz speaks at BOCES Cooperstown Conference

Prez of Soundz speaks on Digital, Media Permissions & Ethics at the BOCES meeting in Cooperstown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTF6dBP0New

Prince's Paisley Park Studios

For those of you out there who are Prince fans (The Artist), our Soundz President, Barry Starlin Britt is speaking at MEMO (Minnesota Education Media Organization) this weekend, and snapped this photo of Paisley Park Studios, where Prince used to live, work and record.

The studios are no longer open to the public, but are still and active recording studio for the elite. Many of Prince's videos were shot here, tours were rehearsed here, and, nearly every album he recorded after "Purple Rain" was recorded at Paisley Park.

Adobe Training Webinar today, 10/1/09

Adobe Education Leaders-webinar training with Barry/Lisa@Soundz, today 11:00 e.s.t. Learn to use audio in PhotoShop and Premier Elements 8!

Soundz Sponsorship for "I Am What I Learn" Video Contest, eSchoolNews article

VID TECHNOLOGY "I Am What I Learn" Video Contest article in eSchoolNews -

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=60852&page=3

ED announces student video contest

School technology organizations say they welcome the initiative, and several companies offer special assistance to participating students

By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Articles FREE for distribution

SoundzaboundFree articles on digital citizenship cleared for educational distribution are available at www.soundzabound.com/links. Enjoy!

Soundz Partnerhip with Adobe AEL's

The Adobe Education Leaders and Soundzabound Royalty Free Music have recently entered a partnership whereby Soundzabound will provide copyright safe audio files via the web to the Adobe Education Leaders (AEL’s) for their technology related projects.

The partnership is a strategic move between the two companies to stimulate 21^st Century Learning Skills while meeting the objectives of the AEL’s who are dedicated to enhancing creativity, communication, collaboration and improving the teaching and learning experience in education through technology.

The Soundzabound web-based program consists of multi-platform MP3 files that work universally in all digital software that incorporates audio. For Adobe users, this includes Adobe Premier Elements 7 for video editing and creation of podcasts, Adobe Audition 3 for audio editing and Adobe Photoshop for photo editing and slide-show creation.

The two companies first partnered in 2007 when the Picture This Grant awarded select teachers in San Diego County Schools the equipment and resources to produce podcasts with their students. Adobe Premier ElementsÔ and SoundzaboundÔ Audio were the essential software used in the grant-sponsored projects. As part of the implementation, Soundzabound Trainers (www.soundzabound.com/services), held a full-day workshop in coordination with the San Diego County Board of Education that taught teachers how to produce a podcast using the Adobe Premier Elements and Soundzabound programs.

You can learn more about the Adobe Education Leader Program at www.adobe.com/education/community/k12/leaders/ and, for more information on Soundzabound products and services visit www.soundzabound.com.

How to get copyright permissions

Great article, by co-founder Barry Britt, on how to obtain permission on music, photos, etc that you want to use in your media. Can be found in this month's School Video News. Enjoy!

Getting Your Money For Your State

President Obama announced the Race to the Top Funds for States.

For more details read the article in eSchool News.

For more details on obtaining that money on the technology side, read the article by ITSE.

What are your thoughts on this??

-Diana @ Soundz HDQs in ATL

Top Read Article for 2009 so far!

How exciting! We received word today from John Churchman of School Video News that one of our co-founder's, Barry Star Britt, articles in School Video News is the top read since Jan 1, 2009! The name of the article? Copyright Issues When Using Music in Videos—The Digital Age!

You know, this just goes to prove that it really is on everyone's mind. No matter how much we (we being society) try to ignore it and foolishly close out eyes real tight, like a child trying to hide from their parents, we can NOT get away from the copyright. It's there and you can not ignore and hope it goes away.

Besides, copyright IS fair. Think about it- you don't want someone else using your ideas or creations! I think 100% of you would agree that you would not be ok with that, and would almost feel violated. I know I would.

So, all we can do, as both educators and artist, is train the next generation on the proper use. What's the best way to train them? Lead by example. I challenge us all to this.

-Diana @ Soundz Headquarters in Atlanta, GA

The Good, The Bad, The Great

Check out co-founder, Barry Britt's latest article on Changing Student's Lives through the Power of Video.

http://bit.ly/guRWr


Let us know your thoughts!


Thanks!
Soundz Team

Happy 4th!

From everyone here on the Soundz staff, 

Have a great Fourth!

Take a moment to remember what exactly the 4th means and just how amazing it is to have our freedom!

-Soundz Team

Soundzabound is now a blogger

How exciting has the past few months been within Soundzabound, you ask? Incredibly. Trying to advance in as many ways as possible to keep educators informed is hard work! Well, this is just one more step towards getting information into educators hands. Through here we hope to keep you up to date on latest news, articles, videos, tutorials, and so much more! This information will not stop at just copyright and technology. If we think you need to know, we will get that you.

So sit back, relax, and let the info start coming!

Soundz Team