20 Of The Best Video & Music Apps For iOS
by TeachThought Staff
This post was sponsored by i Skysoft.com
Working with music and video in the classroom isn’t a new idea. Teachers have been wheeling televisions into the classrooms for decades to show educational fare, documentaries–conjunction junction, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and so many others.
The John Hopkins School of Education has a nice overview of teaching with music, identify the following three (of many) functions music can ‘perform.’ It’s clearly tilted towards college students, but the functions–learning information, activating experiences, and ‘states’ of learning all apply K-20+.
Learning Information
Music can be used to help us remember learning experiences and information. In Active Learning Experiences music creates a soundtrack for a learning activity. The soundtrack increases interest and activates the information mentally, physically, or emotionally. Music can also create a highly focused learning state in which vocabulary and reading material is absorbed at a great rate. When information is put to rhythm and rhyme these musical elements will provide a hook for recall. Here are three ways we can use music to help us learn information:
Active Learning Experiences
Music will activate students mentally, physically, and emotionally and create learning states which enhance understanding of learning material. For example, play music with an association for your topic in the background while reading a concise summary of the important information. The more interesting and dramatic, the more easily the information is remembered. In a social studies class, I have read Chief Joseph quotes and a brief synopsis of his tribes’ famous journey toward Canada while playing native music in the background….
Focus and Alpha State Learning
Music stabilizes mental, physical and emotional rhythms to attain a state of deep concentration and focus in which large amounts of content information can be processed and learned. Baroque music, such as that composed by Bach, Handel or Telemann, that is 50 to 80 beats per minute creates an atmosphere of focus that leads students into deep concentration in the alpha brain wave state. Learning vocabulary, memorizing facts or reading to this music is highly effective. On the other hand, energizing Mozart music assists in holding attention during sleepy times of day and helps students stay alert while reading or working on projects.
20 Of The Best Video & Music Apps For iOS
We’ve provided classic hip-hop songs to teach with in the past. We’ve also shared 22 Of The Best Apps To Make Videos In The Classroom as well. The following list is a collection of apps and tools that combine both–music and video, the two most popular digital multimedia students use in their own lives on a daily basis. We including the most popular streaming music services, as well as YouTube, an array of video editing tools, and more.
Let us know in the comments if we missed any of your favorites.
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20 Of The Best Video & Music Apps For iOS
20 Of The Best Video & Music Apps For iOS
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TIDAL
Tidal is the world’s first music service with High Fidelity sound quality, High Definition music videos and Curated Editorial by music journalists, artists and experts, making for a simply superior experience.
The SoundCloud app lets you hear more. More hip hop. More rock. More electronic. More classical. More house, jazz, audiobooks, sports…
Simple yet powerful, Splice makes it easy to create fully customized, professional-looking videos on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Imagine the performance of a desktop editor, optimized for your mobile device. Just tap to trim clips, adjust transitions, add slow motion effects and more to create beautiful videos you’ll love to share. It’s never been easier to edit like a pro on the go.
VidLab is a multi-track, multi-clip video editor that allows you to easily create beautiful, fun videos & photo stories by adding text, artwork, music, video, sound effects, overlays, voice-overs & more to your videos (and photos).
Spotify is the best way to listen to music on mobile or tablet. Search for any track, artist or album and listen for free. Make and share playlists. Build your biggest, best ever music collection.
Powered by the Music Genome Project®, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken, Pandora gives you personalized radio that plays what you love and continually evolves with your tastes.
Listen to your favorite radio stations for free with TuneIn Radio. With over 100,000 radio stations, TuneIn has the largest selection of sports, news, music and talk radio from around the world.
Prime Music is a benefit of your Amazon Prime Membership, featuring a growing selection of 2 million songs, always ad-free and on-demand.
Videoshop is an easy video editor with fast editing tools, filters and many other effects for personalizing your videos.
Play your videos backward with Reverse Vid! Load it, reverse it, play it.
Create slow motion videos! Slo Mo Video is the best way edit the playback speed of your videos. Choose from your library or record a new one with the camera.
Video FX is a powerful 1-CLICK video effects studio for your iMovie, Musical.ly, Instagram and Youtube videos. Just one click to add beautifully crafted effects to your videos.
Make fun videos wherever you are, with photos and video clips from your Camera Roll. Choose from one of our sleek video styles, add a song, and you’re done! Share via Messages, email, Twitter, and Facebook and impress the socks off your friends and family.
Select the start time and end time of the video and click ‘Trim’ or ‘Cut’.
Slow Fast Slow is an app for manipulating the speed of videos you shoot on your iPhone. It works especially well with slo-mo videos. Use the intuitive interactive timeline to slow down or speed up your videos. Additionally, you can add pitch control, as well as clip reversal.
Video Crop
There will undoubtedly be times when you need to crop your video to delete unnecessary information and draw your viewers’ attention to the most important elements. Your video will look much better if you crop black bars from the sides or remove background that doesn’t contribute anything to the finished product.
SoundCloud is the world’s largest audio and music streaming platform, with over 135 million tracks.
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20 Of The Best Video & Music Apps For iOS
