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This is a really interesting site that I spotted a little while back. The site was inspired by the late great John Cage , one of the most revolutionary composers of the last century. The site is called P22 Music Text Composition Generator and you can find it at: http://p22.com/musicfont/ What the site does is to convert a written text into musical notation with a midi music file to play the notation. It's quite simple to do. You just copy and paste your text into the field, give it a file name (with no spaces or punctuation) choose the speed and instrumentation, then just click to generate the notation and midi file. Then you get a printable copy of your notation and a midi music file that you can download and play. I copied and pasted this blog text in and generated this music file with it. Music Aiding Text Memory Well I can hear people thinking; "What's this got to do with language teaching?" and that's a really good question, so here's how this 'migh...

Well it had to happen! As every other kind of site these days has a social network attached to it, why not karaoke too? The site I've been looking at is called RedKaraoke and it has quite a few useful features. There isn't a huge range of songs there yet, but users can upload their own, it also has a web cam feature so for potential singers who want to be seen as well as heard you can have your web cam hooked up while you sing. As with most karaoke, there are background tracks and you see the words of the lyrics highlighted as you are supposed to sing them. You can rate other singers too and have your own profile as well as take part in forums (mainly used for technical support by the looks of things) and there's also synchronous chat too. Click image to enlarge The high ranking singers get pushed to the top, and if you like someone you can leave encouraging messages of support. So why use this with EFL students? Anyone who has ever taught a EFL / ELT will know how powerfu...