I love this page! Any time I need a last minute plan or have a friend who needs a class activity, I come here! It is nice to help other teachers out too!
Rubric builder designs a rubric for teachers using parameters that can be set. This is a great tool for busy teachers that need a quick rubric. Rubrics are necessary for students to understand what they are getting graded on and Rubric Builder makes the rubric making process easier.
This website provides a multitude of tools for music teachers, among other subjects. The website contains lesson plans and teaching strategies for grades K-12. There are lessons on world music, on instruments (such as building instruments), as well as the history of musical genres. The free version is limited, but the premium version is fairly inexpensive.
Resource for UF Masters of Music Education. This site is helpful in planning lessons for application of new ideas. I love that it has something to offer every teacher from grades K-12.
I use this website sometimes to help out with some of my lesson plans if I'm in need of worksheets to help back up the topic that is chosen for that particular week. This is good for any teacher because it provides a variety of different worksheets for many topics.
This article lists a number of reputable technology resources to use in the music classroom, including popular options like Smart Music which help enhance the personal practice and testing of band students while eliminating the possibility for testing anxiety. What's even more cool is this makes reference to a website which helps students audition to schools who may not be able to afford to travel for in-person auditions.
The International Journal of Music Education (IJME) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the International Society for Music Education (ISME) four times a year.
The International Journal of Music Education is a great resource for learning about new techniques in music education. All articles are peer-reviewed and are written by successful scholars in the field of music education.
This is a great website to use for free printable piano, vocal, guitar, fiddle and violin music. There are varied levels for the piano music, which also has a wide range of repertoire. Each song for piano also comes in different versions, either right hand only, chords added with the right hand, fingerings written in or the entire song.
This website has a large database of public domain sheet music that is on a beginner student level. This website is a great resource for pulling repertoire for beginner students.
Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. Soundcloud is an incredible resource that can but used in the classroom frequently. The site offers a whole collection of music uploaded under a creative commons license, meaning they are available for use as long as you follow any guidelines that are set by the artist.
Looking for additional loops to add to GarageBand, Logic Pro X, or Pro Tools? Looperman is a fantastic place to find additional material for your DAW based projects. Music technology classes will greatly benefit from new material (loops) in addition to those already included in their DAW. All of the audio loops, samples, wav files, sounds and other related files are completely FREE!
Earl MacDonald, professor of jazz at the Univ. of Connecticut, has create this treasure trove of resources for teaching jazz improvisation, jazz theory, and jazz piano. It contains what is essentially a complete curriculum for teaching jazz improvisation that can used with singers as well as instrumentalists.
This is a great resource for teachers looking to incorporate folk songs from around the world. The site provides audio files of the songs so that you can hear the proper pronunciation of the lyrics.
This website has activities in many different languages. The music section includes recordings of folk songs in different languages. This can be a resource to help teachers with pronunciations in other languages.
This website has activities in many different languages. The music section includes recordings of folk songs in different languages. This can be a resource to help teachers with pronunciations in other languages.
This is a great elementary music resource for teachers looking to add folk music from around the world into their curriculum. Simple children's songs are sung in different languages
This website provides browsers with a database of songs for children from a wealth of different cultures and different languages. Recordings of songs are also provided.
This website provides browsers with strategies, thoughts, ideas, etc. on incorporating the Dalcroze Eurythmics method into their instructions. Suggested additional resources (books) and professional development opportunities are also listed.
Music Ed Blogs is a website that features information about all areas of music education. The website itself is a collection of, what it rates as being, the best music education blogs. There is a wide variety of resources available to the viewer on Music Ed Blogs. They have articles on everything from why you should attend a conference to songs and games for Valentine's Day. The website also has several free resources that would be especially useful to a new, or first year, teacher.
Although this website doesn't focus on one specific blog or concept area, it's a great resource to find a wide array of information. Not everything on this website will interest everyone, but it's easy to find something that pertains to your subject area. It also includes a wide variety of bloggers, thus giving the reader the opportunity to see content that they normally might miss.
This site contains information for parents who have children in a music program. Educators can point parents to this site to see what parents are doing in their local communities to support their children in music. Additionally, links are provided to resources/tools for students in their practice in aiding parents in encouraging their students to practice efficiently.
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Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear.
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Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
Highlighting can also be accomplished from the context pop-up. After the Chrome extension is installed, whenever you select text on a webpage, the context pop-up will appear, allowing you to accomplish text-related annotation.
Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear.
The highlight pop-up menu allows you to add notes to, share, or delete the highlight.
Sticky Note
Click the middle icon on the annotation toolbar to add a sticky note to the page. With a sticky note, you can write your thoughts anywhere on a web page.