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A source for links to music education blogs. Blogs are categorized -- elementary, middle school, high school, kodaly-inspired, orff-inspired, technology, choir, orchestra etc.  

Some of the top music education blogs to provide instructional resources to music educators.

The title says it all. This is a collection of music education blogs, covering all kinds of topics.

The Music Education Blogs link contains links to blogs for all sorts of music educators.  The links are catered to specific school settings, teaching methodologies, ensembles, and free online services.  I enjoyed exploring several of the blogs because blogging is something I've just become acquainted to within my graduate studies with the University of Florida's Online Master of Music.  For example, I clicked on the "Elementary Blogs" tab to see what some of my elementary music educator colleagues have to say/share.  A handful of links to other teachers' blogs and websites were made available at a click of the mouse.  I clicked on the first link, "Mrs. Miracle's Music Room," and was able to read posts from "Mrs. Miracle" about her teaching strategies for classroom management when utilizing technology.  Her blog contained other features like a personal bio and links.  My blog for this course doesn't contain those things, and perhaps exploring the blogger.com website more would allow me to make similar changes to my Blog. Being able to share ideas within any online community, in this case a blogging community, could be so useful for any sort of educator.  Considering we are currently enrolled in an online Master of Music program, we are capable of sharing ideas from across the country and even across the globe.  This blog link just makes that possibility more accessible with more educators.

This blog is an organized data base of music educatin blogs categorized by topic.

Some of the top music education blogs to provide instructional resources to music educators.

The most comprehensive choral website around.  The forums are great for everything from repertoire to class management.  Specifically for everything choral. 

Music a la Abbott Amy Abbott Kodály Inspired Blog and Elementary Teachers Music Education Resource

This blog is written by a Kodaly elementary school teacher who shares everything from resources she's used, to resources she's created herself and sharing through Teachers Pay Teachers. She also blogs about her experiences with taking interests of her students and turning them into an activity to do with learning music literacy. And if your teaching style represents the Kodaly teaching style, she has many tips and tricks for this to make our students successful and life-long music lovers.

A Kodaly-inspired blog that includes usable resources for teachers including lesson planning ideas, advice for classroom management, assessment ideas, and links to purchase lesson plans, unit plans, assessments, and other tools.

Flat is a full-featured online music notation tool. The product has commercial and educational versions. The educational version has teacher administrative controls and allows an educator to integrate Flat into common learning management services including Google Classroom and Canvas. Students and teachers can collaborate on the same notation projects, and have the ability to integrate and link to external content (e.g. YouTube). Flat also has a plugin for Google Documents which allows users to create and embed short selections of music notation into their work.

This is online notation software that can be used by teachers and students.

This website is a music writing software that can be used online as well as offline. The layout of the program is simple to navigate and grasp. Students can easily learn how to arrange or create compositions here. Collaboration on projects is simple. Projects can be shared with one another. There is also a feature in which a teacher can leave written notes within the scores themselves.

Choral Public Domain Library. This site is a resource for public domain. There are free downloads of many choral scores

Choral Public Domain Library. This site is a resource for public domain. There are free downloads of many choral scores

This is a site for free Choral Public Domain music. It is a libray of many pieces that are in the public domain including great works that most scholarly choirs want in their repertoire or on their library shelves. A great site for student and teacher research. There are also forums on music, singing, and conducting. Accounts are free and easy to manage.

This website offers a free template for printing staff paper. Several customizable options including staff size, clef, indentation, and guitar tab are also included.

This resource provides users with access to free customizable music staff paper.  Users can select different clefs, change orientation, add measures, and manage bar lines.  Students can utilize this resource for music theory, personal composition, and jazz transcribing while teachers can use this website to print sheet music to construct exercises, arrange/transpose parts, assign music theory problems, and for other uses.

This is a great tool to get manuscript paper. Easy to use and customizable.

This may seem like a small thing, but the ability to print sheet music on demand is vital to music educators and students alike. This is an invaluable resource for your students!

Print blank sheet music for free, supports guitar and bass tabs too, ready-to-print sheets in a few seconds, no software to download and install, no watermarks on prints, requires Flash plugin

Great detailed lesson ideas for Elementary Education. Includes links to other blogs that the writer enjoys for more ideas and creative lessons for elementary education.

This is one amazing blog by a Kodaly-certified teacher who blogs about everything in music education from assessment to children's literature, from management to choir, critical thinking, composition, classroom decor, group work, improvisation, learning centers, listening lessons, movement, and so much more. She also provides free resources downloadable from her blog, as well as other low cost resources she's created available for purchase through Teachers Pay Teachers. Her website also features ways to contact her through email, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and includes a podcast to listen to.

Aileen Miracle's Blog is a fantastic resource for music teachers. Her blog provides resources, technology ideas, podcasts and freebies for music teachers. Within her blog is a link to her TPT store, where she has many valuable resources for teaching general music.

A blog written by a general music teacher, with tons of strategies, advice and discussion points for any music teacher. Places an emphasis on technology used in the classroom. Includes resources and offers a podcast.

This software is shareware and a great alternative to using the pricer competition. It can allow the student to create music at home on their personal computers. It also has great value as a teaching tool and teaching student how to compose or arrange.

This is a free, web-based, cloud-based notation software program. Users can create, view, print, hear and share scores. This program is similar to Sibelius and Finale, but has the advantage of being web-based. It is MIDI and iOS compatible. Users can participate in a community of sharing scores. Noteflight is free, but Premium features require a monthly subscription. Educators can purchase a "Learn" subscription which allows students to have their own accounts that are managed by one (or several) teachers.

Great resource to have notation software accessible for free. Limited in the amount of scores you can create, but you are able to print and hear a MIDI playback.

This program is a good tool for notating music. Students can create original works or copy something for an assignment. Has many of the features as the expensive programs.