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Goodby snow days, hello distance learning opportunities! A private school in New Jersey is making up school day with online education. I would love to see this happen in PA and around the U.S.

Excellent FREE ear-training software, as part of the GNU project. While there is little/no support from the website admin anymore, it provides a smooth and easy way to: -Recognize, compare and sing intervals -Identify & sing chords and specific chord tones -Rhythmic and melodic dictation (The "basics" of Auralia and other paid ear-training software, without the pretty interface).

This is a site where students can hear radio shows from the station of the same name as the site, hear instruments demonstrations, play musical games, and review terms from a musical dictionary. Teachers can also benefit from this site by taking advantage of its lesson plans and other teaching resources.

Great website for elementary music class. Easy to understand composer biographies, good music, fun games and a wonderful way to access classical music information.

Classics for Kids is a site that allows children to further learn about composers, music, play games that reinforce rhythms, note names, and improvisation.

The Making Most of Music practice: Research-Based strategies to Motivate and Empower Students will be used to inform my parents about a valid concern. I teach the steel drum and most students do not have a personal instrument. Therefore, practice time at the pan yard seems as if it takes too much of the students time. If parents are enlightened with this information they may have more of an understanding and appreciation for the amount of practice time spent in the pan yard.

These are 10 of my bookmarks from Diigo for your review and comments.

This is an interesting read that was linked on Dr. Bauer's resources discussing the connections of arts and common core standards.

This informative Edutopia article by blogger and professor Karin Nolan encourages educators about the simplicity about integrating their current teaching approach and curriculum structure with a standards-based curriculum. You do not have be a musician to satisfy the standards either.

This is a great article for the classroom teacher who is looking arts integrated lessons.

The article discusses insight on intonation and ways that teachers and students should approach intonation. The answer is, not with a tuner.

An excellent video on how brain function is improved when playing an instrument. A great video for music advocacy.

This is one of my absolute favorite videos about music cognition.

This is one of my absolute favorite videos about music cognition.

This web page offers free printable of stories and props for kids. Even though it's not a music education site, elementary music teachers that use stories to teach music concepts such as beat, high/low, soft/loud, among other concepts, can find excellent patterns to print and use in their classes. There are many books based on songs.

I am teaching private music lessons to a couple of two and a half year olds. This activity is good to teach the difference between beat and rhythm. 

Great website for puzzles, quizzes, composition activities, instrument families and a great introduction to the NY Philharmonic.  This would be excellent to use before attending a NY Philharmonic concert. 

This is a great website for students to review concepts learned in class. "Instrument Frenzy" is a high speed game that can be used to review instruments and categorize them by family. 

A great website for students to learn about the instruments, and people of the orchestra. They also learn about composers and compositions, and are able to make their own instrument, mingles, and minuets. A great website to use for elementary students who are learning about the orchestra.

This website provides lessons, exercises, and other tools pertaining to music theory. The exercises are especially useful for students to practice their music theory outside of the classroom/studio.

To teach music theory to the beginner or advanced students.  This could be used to teach beginners how to read music or advanced students to work on ear training or even identifying chords.  Very useful when teaching music theory and want to reinforce skills.

Basic music symbols, concepts and theory for persons on the go. ufmue

Helpful insight on starting your beginning band students.

Helpful insight on starting your beginning band students.

Incorporating music into any class

Article written to support the use of technology to compliment instruction and enhance student learning instead of technology for technology sake. Teachers should use social media cites, e.g., blogs, to facilitate discussion and feedback from students, create online PLNs. The cross curricular benefit is increasing writing facility and literacy. A couple of concerns are cyberbullying and parents who may question how much learning is taking place with social media. Educators can help others, including students, understand that music learning can take place outside of the classroom through social media and broaden the audience.

Music K8 is a publication company that provides resources (physical and digital) for elementary/general music teachers. Most of the musical content is organized and packaged around various themes, such as seasons or holidays. There is also a magazine (for teachers) that is published quarterly containing a variety of repertoire and high quality mp3 accompaniment tracks. Individual songs can also be previewed and purchased digitally.

This website is used to help me find new repertoire to work on with my students. Teaching concepts through pieces of music is important even at the younger level. This resource helps me find music for all ages in my school.

This article discusses strategies that can be used to continue to encourage students' creativity in music through pedagogical techniques.

This article brings awareness of diversity in students and activities music educators participated in to receive a different perceptive pf how to engage with students.

Morton Subotnick's Creating Music has a variety of music games and activities that would be suited for an elementary curriculum. I would like to use this website as a center in my classroom, to allow students to explore simple music creation and music listening.

Creating music is a site preferably for younger learners. It provides practice on pitches, timbres, ear training, and memorization.

Younger musicians can use this website to understand pitch, hearing music and create basic compositions. There is an iPad application that goes along with it and it is completely free and a great educational tool for younger children.

Home of Apple's digital audio workstation: Logic Pro X. (also known as GarageBand's older sibling). The site has numerous videos, reviews, links, and demos of the software. The digital audio workstation has become a mainstay for music production because of both the software's accessible, yet ultra-powerful interface, which can be used by both novices, all the way to studio professionals.

This software is a big production, and is something that i use a lot personally. This software will give you the ability to do anything you may need to do. The purpose of this resource would be to show more advanced student more features on how to create, record, mix, and master. This is a more in depth software for more professional users. This would be a software that i would use to implement with more advanced students, who have used other software's.