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Several schools, including ones in high-poverty areas, are making art critical to the learning of more academic subjects. They're seeing remarkable student achievement and improvement! This is a pretty cool article about art in schools and how it's very important. The same concepts can be applied to music!

Super cool integration of percussion, pop, and technology! 

Describes benefits of using ableton live in the classroom. Details features and gives ideas on how to implement the program for kids as well as talking about features such as compatibility, midi mapping and video and podcast integration that could be used in the classroom.

Tips on how to integrate technology into the classroom.

A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

We're writing a song for our performance project, and I've used this extensively. I've found it to be quite helpful. At first, I thought it would be dumb to post it, but after some thought I disagreed with my original notion. This tool is an example of how technology is helping songwriters network, through the use of a thesaurus and rhyming. It made the song writing process much more efficient and smoother.

Ways to use music if you end up teaching anything other than music.