http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:43 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:43 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738931 'Explore the surprising side of color with Color Uncovered, an interactive book that features fascinating illusions, articles, and videos developed by the Exploratorium.How is Monet like a honeybee? What color is a whisper? Why is it so hard to find your car in a lamp-lit parking lot?Color Uncovered features a wide spectrum of cool color-related topics to explore. Learn why friends shouldn’t let men buy bananas. Try your own color experiments on the iPad using simple items you have at home: a CD case, a drop of water, and a piece of paper. Discover how the iPad and other devices create color. Find out what causes afterimages—and more.'This is a free app http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738946 'Explore the surprising side of sound with Sound Uncovered, an interactive book featuring auditory illusions, acoustic phenomena, and other things that go bump, beep, boom, and vroom. From the makers of Color Uncovered—the Exploratorium—this app puts you at the center of the experiment: Hear with your eyes, see with your ears, make and modify recordings, test your hearing, and more.How do you make a saxophone growl? Are there secret messages in music played backward? Can you talk and listen at the same time? Why does the sound of gum chewing drive some people mad? Listen up and find answers to these questions and more as you take an auditory trip to the place where sound gets truly interesting: the space between your ears. 'This is a free app http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=728519 Music Theory Learning Objects for Drill and Practice is a series of 16 interactive objects providing drills on primary and advanced music theory. Types of questions include aural identification (chord, interval recognition and error detection) and theory rudiments (write and identify key signatures, intervals, chords, measure completion and scales). These objects provide a comprehensive space for music theory practice, drawing random questions from a bank of literally thousands of possibilities. For each question, students are provided with the option of showing the answer, which may be in text, or in showing the placement of notes on a staff, depending on the question. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=726101 Non-flash versions of the music theory and ear training exercises from teoria.com (2006 MERLOT Classic Award). These exercises can be used on iPads and similar mobile devices that do not support Flash.Exercises include intervals, chords and scale construction, identification and ear-training, clef reading, rhythm, melodic, two voice and harmonic progressions ear training, http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721709 'The slideshow that turns your photos into amazing works of art!Corel® Paint it!™ Show is the world's first photo slideshow app to transform your iPad™ into a portable art gallery. Sit back and watch your favorite pictures from Facebook® or your iPad Photo Library morph into paintings, right before your eyes. It’s a photo viewing experience unlike any other!Features:• Easily select your favorite photos from Facebook or your iPad Photo Library• Watch your photos turn into a unique, painted slideshow• Choose from five realistic painting effects• Tap the screen at any time to pause the slideshow and share your photo-paintings by Facebook or email• Go back and review up to 100 paintings within the same viewing session• Save photo-paintings to your iPad's Photo Library• Listen to your favorite music as you watch with built-in iPod® support • Easily control the painting effects and slide transitions'This is a free app http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721680 'Use your fingers to paint in FINGER PAINT or GLOW PAINT mode. Share on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Email, or save to your Camera Roll. In app-purchases are available for:- Disabling ads & branding - Advanced picture editor to crop, adjust pictures, place clip art, and edit captions - Web Image Search - pick images from Bing, Google, and Flickr - Unlimited Color Palette - draw with any color from a full color palette'This is a free app http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721687 'Finger and Glow Paint! Tested from ages 3 to 93, FingerPaint Glow Deluxe is the MOST FUN, MOST ENJOYABLE painting app you will find in the app store!! Awesome, slick new menus - improved color blending - iPad and iPhone Retina ready! Use your fingers to paint in FINGER PAINT or GLOW PAINT mode. Share on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Email, or save to your Camera Roll. This is the Premium version - includes:- NO ADS / no branding- Picture editor to crop, adjust pictures, place clip art, and edit captions- Web Image Search - pick images from Bing, Google, and Flickr- Unlimited Color Palette - draw with any color from a full color palette'This app costs $0.99 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721708 'Free Sketch Art Tool. Create amazing black and white or color sketches with a few simple strokes. Simple, fast procedural sketching tool. Including brushes: sketch, web, fur, longfur, simple, and more.'This is a free app. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=718378 At this site, one can download music theory worksheets for free. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=704115 Basic lesson plan on how to teach dotted quarter notes