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great resource for music, history, and language art teachers. Give lesson plans, timelines, and music samples and major artist contributors to jazz music

Thank you for this post it can be used in any class. I play jazz and classical music in my classroom when we are working on assignment and the kids love it!

Amazon offers 16,623 songs, loops. background music-whatever you might need for future ed tech projects. Other sites just aren't as trustworthy.

Blog post from leading music educators

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. Individuals can download the Scratch software and create their own projects, or explore projects that other individuals created on the web.

Thank you, this is a really awesome site!

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. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Free music downloads, free games, children's books, children's music, children's songs, sing-along songs, and animated cartoons help teach kids to read. Free teacher lessson plans, work sheets, teaching aids, daily quizzes help classroom teachers teach and test.

Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!

Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art.

love this website!!! students always complain that they can't understand why they need to learn algebra because they want to be a rapper, singer, fashion designer, etc. This website give teachers are great lesson plan that includes video and other visuals to show students how algebra is needed in most careers

The History Teacher's Channel provides great historical content set to some of America's most popular songs. Think of it as and educational version Weird Al Yankovic. Every song and (and there is over 50 to date) contains a music video that reinforces the song.  I often use these for anticipatory sets in my class, and the students love them. Best of all they are free.

Jamendo is a site where you can download creative commons music for free. It has a number of calming, instrumental tracks that would be perfect background music in the classroom.

Recently, the popular press has pointed to increasing evidence of misuse and abuse of emerging technologies in U.S. schools. Some examples include using Web sites to intimidate or threaten students, downloading music illegally from the Internet, plagiarizing information using the Internet, using cellular phones during class time, and playing games on laptops or handhelds during class. How can these issues be addressed?

One, two, three, four - give your algebra class a hip hop beat score! Researchers have been studying the link between music and learning for decades, and recent research suggests that listening to music does indeed enhance the brain's ability to absorb new information.

Learn about 21st Century technological skills and careers. This collection of video segments produced by KET provides examples of African/African-American music, dance, and storytelling. This collection of video segments produced by KET provides examples of Renaissance music, dance, and drama. Learn about biotechnology applications, concepts, tools and techniques, and career options.

A step by step guide for teachers and students to create a digital story. It also includes instructions on how to add images, music, video etc

University of Houston: A storyboard is a written or graphical representation of the all of the elements that will be included in a digital story. The storyboard is usually created before actual work on creating the digital story begins and a written description and graphical depiction of the elements of the story, such as images, text, narration, music, transitions, etc. are added to the storyboard. The elements of the story are arranged in the storyboard in the chronological order in which they will appear in the story and this allows the developer to organize and re-arrange the content for maximum effect.

""i Tell a Story" allows children to narrate and record their stories. But as a complete audio recording and editing tool, there are countless other uses, such as having adults record stories and messages for the little ones in their lives to listen to. Add funny sounds and music if you want, plus a picture, title, and your name, and send your audio book"

Great website to use for songs and videos that will enhance student learning.

Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows®, Mac®, GNU/Linux®, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information. The current release of Audacity is 2.0. It replaces all previous versions.

Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.