Digital Learning Reimbursement 10 - Music

I don't use the music capabilities of my iPad as much as I'd like. For school use, I like to play music sometimes when the students are coming in. I have a cord I can hook to the speakers in my room, and in the morning, it seems to perk some kids up. I also like to use the radio app, Tune In, to play. Music softly while students have group work or work time. It seems to really encourage productivity in certain working times. For personal use, I like to listen to the Tune in radio while I do dishes or we have company over. It provides nice soft background music. I don't usually use the iTunes music store, unless I want to put a cd on iTunes and play it on my iPad. Another app I frequently use is Pandora. I really enjoy Pandora because you can type in an artist or a song, or even a genre, and it creates a radio station with songs and artists similar to the one you originally typed in. While I really like how I can find more songs and music I like this way, it does have ads and commercials every few songs. While they are omelet story appropriate ads, I find that if using it in the classroom, it would be wise to have access to a mute button during those few seconds. Pandora also has you create a login and saves your information so if you want to login into another computer, your stations will be saved. Overall, I would say Pandora and Tune in are very similar, but I have a preference for Pandora.