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Audio & Animation Software

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. MonkeyJam is a digital penciltest program. It is designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation. You can also import images and sound files already on your computer. Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software, included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie.
Pivot Stickfigure animation allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. If you've ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you'll feel right at home and will appreciate the extra features that Stykz has to offer! Stykz is an easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio.

* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.

* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.

* Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.

* Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Music Games

A collection of early learning musical activities, ideal for Key Stage 1.

Free Play - Play the on-screen keyboard. Record and play back a sequence of notes. Choose a new voice to play back the same sequence. Record a sequence for someone else to copy.

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 vanBasco's web-enabled Karaoke Player has an intuitive graphical user-interface which supports skins. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen.