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This online magazine is now available as an app for the iPad and iPhone. It contains technical advice, reviews of recordings, artist profiles, and general coverage of issues relevant to string players.

This is a GREAT sight reading tool! This allows you to choose your instrument, the level for sight-reading, the time signature, and the key in which you wish it to produce a sight-reading exercise. This is very easy to use and will produce 8 new measures of sight-reading based on the aforementioned attributes.

This app generates sight reading exercises within specified guidelines. It can be adjusted for instrument, difficulty level, time signature and key signature

This site has everything tuba. You can find instruments for sale, audition dates, and general discussions. This is a great tool to help students find out which schools have tuba openings and what types of scholarships they offer. Also you can help students who are in the market for a used instrument find potential deals.

"Web Audio API Oscillators" is a web page based on Middle Ear website. It has valuable information on how to generate sound using a web browser. It also contains links to interesting sound apps.

I attended an Arts Integration Workshop this past summer (2015), which is designed to train general education teachers how to incorporate the arts into their lessons. This wiki has many, many examples and lesson plans for arts or non-art teachers to use!

This website includes teaching materials, blogs, and more to support band directors. Some of the materials include seating chart, 'rehearsal detective' forms, and more practical forms for band directors.

This website is a collection of various resources by Wendy Higdon to assist band directors in their classrooms. Her website offers a podcast about band related topics such as recruitment and inventory. Her blog includes articles on building fundamentals and stocking the right reeds for your woodwinds. Finally she has many resources available to download such as seating chart generators, recruiting materials, and self-assessments.

This blog is written by Wendy Hart Higdon, a middle school band director who has wrote tons of articles on directing middle school bands, and has an awesome recruitment checklist on here!

This is a website devoted to this history and performance of Taps. There is information regarding how to properly perform this bugle call. Also, there is information about bugles in general and their role in the military. Great for teaching trumpet players (and really all musicians) about this very well known call.

This site provides a network for buglers. While also a place to find buglers or to sign up for one, there is also articles and comments about Taps.

This is a very interesting website. I wouldn't let my classes "roam free" during class but as a teacher resource, relevant songs could be brought up and discussed as a class. Students could submit a song request and the teacher could preview ahead of time the appropriateness of discussing it's history.

This is a wonderful article on motivating middle school students and keeping them invested.