Dan currently has two books available as resources for teachers. These books will provide you with lots of background and tutorial material for implementing creative audio into your classroom or educational organization. They are more than simple tutorial books, they are filled with examples and activities to provide educators with the context they will need in order to position new technologies in their teaching.
KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom - Purchase Now
Podcasting is the next wave in creative communication allowing anyone with audio recording software and an Internet connection to begin producing their own audio programs. Your podcast can highlight your classroom, your community, your curriculum, or just about anything you and your students can dream up. Podcasting is a great way for teachers and students to reinforce what they are learning and share their own unique voices with the world. Podcasting can also support your classroom by offering thousands of unique audio programs produced by public radio stations, museums, subject area experts, educators and creative individuals. You can subscribe to these programs for free and download them for playback on your computer or on a portable music player. Podcasts can provide you with curriculum support, professional development and hours of free entertaining content.
KidCast will get you and your students started with easy to follow directions to help you:
GarageBand Mechanics - Purchase Now
Thousands of classroom teachers and music educators have begun exploring music in a whole new way thanks to Apple's GarageBand software. Now, there is a guide to GarageBand written especially for teachers. GarageBand Mechanics offers educators 130 pages of how-to's, tips, and curriculum centered projects for learning and implementing GarageBand in their classroom. Whether you are a beginner or virtuoso, you will be able to create beautiful music in no time with GarageBand Mechanics.