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Great source of band-relate comics strips. A great way to ease the tension of performance preparation. Comics have tags so searching for specific topics and/or instruments are easy.

This is mostly just a fun website. I would use this to get some fun band related pictures and sayings to put on the Smart Board as the students are walking in the class and getting ready for rehearsal. This could be a good website to add some extra fun to the music class.

This website has free downloadable sound effects for students to use in the music technology classroom. Students can use the sounds for sampling projects and sound effects in compositions. 

This is a website on using a Smart board in a band/ music class.

The purpose of this page is to provide a Whiteboard resource with 10 excellent ways to incorporate the IWB into music lessons. Several of these ideas were new to me and I look forward to exploring them in my classroom.

This article describes ways to use an interactive whiteboard for music learning. Many of the ideas may be best suited for a general music classroom but can also be incorporated into rehearsal settings. IWBs can be used to teaching the reading and writing of music notation. They can also be used to teach music form and history, and interactive lessons with video, power points, and games. IWBs help engage many learning styles at once and keep students engaged.  

Fingering AND trill charts for all instruments. Offered in a PDF printable format. Teacher can print indiviudal copies for students to use. Although most method books have fingering charts, most do not have trill charts. A great reference for students.

The website for the National Core Arts Standards (2014). It includes the standards for music, dance, visual arts, theater, and media arts. Standards are searchable by content area and grade level. Examples of standards-based assessments are included.

This site provides a list of national content standards for k-12 music curriculum.

This site contains the new K-12 arts standards, including those for music education, as well as tools related to assessment.

Rhythm and pitch theory games online. Useful for recommending as summer reading activity.

A wide selection of card (or otherwise physical) theory games to teach pitch, rhythm, intervals, etc. Easily adaptable for private or group classes.

This is a really great resource app for music educators and students. In class, I use the tuner, the metronome, and the tone generator functions. My students love it because it makes playing in tune a little more fun, and most importantly, it is very user friendly.

TonalEnergy is an app with tuning, analysis, and metronome capabilities. It features a variety of settings to customize its use to fit your needs.

Webquest on American regional music.

This site is a webquest on the making of musical instruments; specifically, the violin. While based on a string instrument, this is a great site for inspiration for creating a similar project for wind or percussion instruments.

This webquest engages students in a potential disscussion with a composer from a different era. This activity could also be adapted for exploration of current composers as well.

This is a website geared for string musicians or educators. This website provides string teachers with many professional development opportunities! Educators are able to share information about their various programs, and offer suggestions to one another. There are so many teaching resources on this website and one of the best parts is as a member, you are able to watch the recorded sessions from the National Conferences which are sometimes hard to attend. These sessions are extremely important for string teachers to see what teachers from around the country are doing in their own program. It offers great opportunities for networking as well as for anyone who is seeking work in another location.

The website for the American String Teachers Association.

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Database of sight-singing examples

For anyone interested in military music or master classes (or both), this is a good center for many resources. This website includes master classes on a variety of subjects, instrumental basics from a military perspective, various educational articles, information on planning your own clinic and the different army bands active around.

This website provides master classes for various topics related to band and band instruments. Each document provided on this website provides prudent information for developing individual musicianship. Furthermore, each documented has been created by a master in their given field.