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Nerds viciam by Ninha Morandini is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Soundcloud is a community of music artists, producers, podcasters that deliver content to a wide and diverse audience of listeners. As a visitor to SoundCloud, you can search and listen to tracks. However, by creating an account, you can experience many more features.


Just as any Web 2.0 tool, you have the ability to engage with the content and the community. You can openly comment on content, follow accounts, add to personal playlist, as well as share the content over social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, Pinterest) and good old-fashioned email.

Interacting with content is unique as comments go directly on the waveform’s timeline and not a comments section per se. It’s as if the audience is directly engaged with the track, just as if you were commenting about something with friends in a face-to-face live setting. This allows the community to specifically point out their interest in the content, which works as a source of feedback.
I highly recommend this as a resource for creating your own educational podcasts or curating podcasts that support learning objectives. It’s free and easy to use, plus Soundcloud is available via iTunes and GooglePlay for those wanting to engage on the go.

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  1. UnknownJuly 30, 2017 at 8:31 PM

    I love Soundcloud! It is such an interesting community, with a mix of podcasts and artists collaborating for some amazing stuff. The creativity that comes out of this area in some cases, like mixing childish gambino to stranger things makes me love this program (https://soundcloud.com/asabakaev/stranger-things-theme-x-childish-gambino-rap-remix)

    Thank goodness that Chance the Rapper helped in saving the program

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