Royalty Free Music

Music covered by the Creative Commons licence is great for use in 

• Slideshows
• Videos
• Use on blogs
• Background music for classes
• For student use in their own projects.
• For dancing

Marzano and Pickering (p.23.1997) suggest frequent and systematic use of activities that involve physical movement. This allows students to release tension built up from remaining in one position for a long time, which is common in classrooms today. When students are comfortable they are able to learn more efficiently.

There are many different uses for music in the classroom and using music that requires only crediting back to the composer is a very simple way of accessing this tool. I have bookmarked this site!

Regards, 

Toni 

Reference:

Marzano, R. J., & Pickering, D. J. (with Arrendondo, D. E., Paynter, D. E., Blackburn, G. J., Brandt, R. S., … Whistler, J. S.). (1997). Dimensions of learning teacher’s manual (2nd ed.). Alexandra, VA: ASCD