October's Better Than A Newsletter

Soundzabound hires new Director of Professional Development and Training:

Soundzabound is proud to announce that Lisa Scherer, Director of Professional Development & Training, was hired on September 2, 2008.

Among some of her many duties, Lisa will be conducting Soundzabound product training for educators, sales people, and will also arrange distance learning by video and webinars with a primary focus not only on our web-based audio, but also on copyright compliance and applications in new technologies. Lisa will be actively involved in working with the sales staff to schedule training workshops for districts and regions while also holding concurrent breakout sessions at regional, state, national and international tech and media conferences.

Lisa has been a computer applications trainer for 12 years. Her experience includes corporate training (both on-site and classroom), most recently with CED Solutions in Marietta, Georgia. She has also worked as an independent consultant/ trainer, and taught computer applications classes at Clayton College & State University (GA), Griffin Technical College (GA), Ashland Community & Technical College (KY), and Okefenokee Technical College (GA). Last year, Lisa taught Business Education/ Computer Applications at Ware County High School, and Marketing at Okefenokee Technical College in Waycross, Georgia.

Lisa enjoys being the wife of Mark and mom of their children Ryan (11) and Kristen (9) where they live in Flowery Branch, GA.

She can be reached at lisas@soundzabound.com.

Click below for a complete list of workshops.

Volume 6 - "Global Indie Bands & Artists" Update:

The calls and emails keep coming for the release date for Volume 6. We are in the final agreement and licensing stages with many artists from around the globe. Check out this month's FREE preview & download by clicking on the image to the right. Look for the same image on the left hand side of the home page and start your download.

Latest update on RIAA Lawsuits:

RIAA has taken the issue of illegally downloading music and file sharing seriously, to the point where they have figured out ways to find people (even on a wireless network) that have made the infraction. Letters are being sent directly to those people, giving them an opportunity to settle out of court or face a full lawsuit. To read the full story, click on the following links:

RIAA- Individual Settlement Offers
(Click & Scroll Down to Indiviual Settlement Offers)
P2P Lawsuits

Questions About Copyright Compliance & Fair Use?

Here's excellent resources to answer your questions on whether you are copyright compliant or not:

U.S. Copyright Office

Fair Use Guidelines

Featured Article:

Video at My Space or Yours - Using Video and Social Networking as Tools Within Education

Featured Video:

Interview with Elizabeth Beyer - Tech4Learning - SchoolTube

Tech Tips:

When using Audacity as your audio editing software, be sure to download the free Lame (mp3 encoder), which converts the wav. file you've created to an mp3 file. Podasts are primarily in mp3 format.

Click the following link for the Audacity and Lame downloads with directions.

Audacity & Lame Info

Check out super-cool videos and project examples using Soundzabound Music by clicking below: