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rebeccasteinke

quickfacts.pdf - 0 views

shared by rebeccasteinke on 29 May 17 - No Cached
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    This "cheat sheet" is an excellent study resource for music theory. This sheet contains definitions and music theory rules, scale types, and reminders about intervals. It comes in handy for test preparation and could even be used as a checklist with each student to assess student knowledge.
ltwoods4

Beginning Clarinet Advice - 0 views

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    The website provides helpful information for assessing and diagnosing common mistakes on the clarinet. The author of this website offers useful advice for educators who may not understand the intricacies of teaching beginning clarinetists. This information would be most relevant for band directors and private studio teachers. 
William Bauer

GradeCam - 0 views

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    Flash assignments in front of your smartphone, tablet, webcam or document camera. Grades instantly populate onto your computer and can be transferred into your electronic grade book with one keystroke.
Ann Engels Nogueira

Music Learning Today - 0 views

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    This is the companion site the Dr. Bauer's text Music Learning Today.  It deals with technology as it relates to music teaching and learning.  This site goes beyond what is in the text.
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    This is the companion site the Dr. Bauer's text Music Learning Today.  It deals with technology as it relates to music teaching and learning.  This site goes beyond what is in the text.
Rachel Renick

QuestGarden Overview - 0 views

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    This is a great website for building a WebQuest. In addition, teachers can share, comment on, and build upon each others web quests.  
lemason

Use PBL to Innovate the Music Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

  • PBL can further champion music education and continue to legitimize it as critical content, even as it is under attack by naysayers and budget cuts
  • music educators deal with the same concerns as core teachers, including student engagement, assessment and standards. Utilize PBL to address these concerns and embrace new possibilities for the music classroom.
  • PBL projects create the need to know critical content through an authentic purpose.
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  • Performance is the essence of the music classroom
  • Music educators, please continue to do what you do, but consider taking it up a notch from time to time with a PBL project
  • PBL can help focus your instruction, build authenticity and create purpose and relevance for reluctant students in your classroom
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    This article discusses possible uses for PBL in the music classroom.
michaelmartell

Florida Bandmasters Association Website > Home - 0 views

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    Event info and audition information, district minutes, ways to get involved in FBA.
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    This website is an important one for Florida band directors to have book marked. The Florida Bandmasters Association provides a variety of educational experiences for students including performance evaluations and honor band experiences. In addition, FBA is a community of educators who support each other by helping each other to grow professionally. The FBA website provides a "best practices" section as well as articles and other resources that are helpful for band directors as they seek to improve their skills.
sophiedove

ClassDojo - 2 views

shared by sophiedove on 25 Jun 14 - No Cached
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    Real time assessment and motivation tool.
Jeni Wiant

Who's Who and Who's New: Plickers! Technology Awesomeness! - 2 views

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    Here is a good description of just how to set-up Plickers for your classroom.
William Bauer

Kahoot! - 0 views

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    Kahoot is a platform that creates interactive quizzes for students to use with a smartphone and digital whiteboard. This app allows users to design quiz content and use it to 'gamify' their classroom.
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    Create, play and share fun learning games for any subject, for all ages, for free!
cchill17

EDpuzzle - 0 views

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    Allows you to pause youtube videos, insert questions, and assign to students or classes.
jmkustec

Quaver's Marvelous World Of Music - 0 views

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    This is a flash-based musical game site that has several different activities that are appropriate for elementary students. The site is very engaging for that age student and easy to navigate.
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    a) The purpose of the resource is to provide interactive activities and games for students covering an array of musical subjects for use in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers EVERY national music standard! (c) I would use the free version of this site more for free-time activities and games.
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    Website offers a few free items for use on the IWB. I do not own a license for the paid items but the school where I student taught used this program on daily basis.
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    This is a fantastic flash-based website with many free music games. Students can create an avatar that moves around Quaver's music shop and studio, finding music games to play. Games focus on composition, ear training, and responding. The free games are just the beginning- Quaver Music offers a comprehensive, standards-based K-6 curriculum that is loaded with hundreds of interactive songs, lesson plans, assessment tools, video episodes, games, and more. An annual subscription is required, but teachers can purchase smaller sections of the curriculum to meet their specific needs.
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    This is a cloud-based music education software with lesson plans, project ideas, audio, video, games, and other special activities to assist teaching new content from note values, line and space identification, world music, and other content.
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    Curriculum for music classes through grade 8.
navarrosnotes

Using Plickers in the Music Classroom - 0 views

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    Plickers are a useful technology tool for quickly gathering data about class preferences and knowledge. These are some ideas for the elementary music class.
lchapa

Jazz in America - 0 views

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    A website created by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and designed for instructors. It offers lesson plans at no charge for 5th - 8th - 11th grade. Lessons examine jazz styles, performers, and composers. The website provides instructors with video and audio media, handouts and quizzes for students, and assessments.
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    Developed by The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Jazz in America provides jazz educators with many great resources, including lesson plans, curriculum ideas, and audio samples.
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    The purpose of Jazz in America is to educate middle and high school students on the history of Jazz, help students think creatively, and to develop an appreciation of jazz music. The musical content includes lesson plans, a timeline, glossary, important musicians, style sheets, and audio recordings to use in instruction.
heather3728

Mrs. Miracle's Music Room | Music Education Blog - 0 views

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    Mrs. Miracle's Music Room has a wealth of information. Besides the usual blog with free lesson plans and a link to her www.teacherspayteachers.com store, she also has a link to her podcast and facebook group. She includes easy to use labels to sort the blogs as well as a link to highlight her classroom design and organization. Her blogs range in topics from specific lesson plans to teacher self-care and learning styles in the music classroom. She is a Kodaly trained teacher and her blog is geared towards K-6 general music.
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    Mrs. Miracle's Music Room is a blog dedicated to elementary music education. This website provides viewers with Mrs. Miracle's podcast, as well as, music literature, tips for teaching different grade levels and different music learning styles. The website also provides the viewer with free materials that they can use in their classroom and assessments. Technology is a big focus of Mrs. Miracle's blog.
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    Blog filled with resources, ideas, helpful hints, podcasts, etc, to utilize in your music classrooms. Includes resources on different learning styles and age groups, as well as downloads and purchases for your classroom.
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    The blog has a myriad of resources for the elementary music classroom. I have followed this blog for years and have pulled resources and ideas from it quite often. Examples of resources I have used recently are music centers and music technology/iPad apps.
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    Mrs. Miracle's blog incorporates a ton of resources for the elementary school teacher. She posts podcasts, lesson plans, and different activities that she does in her classroom. There is also the option to download freebies or purchase activities from her store (similar to Teachers Pay Teachers).The blog also discusses learning styles and best practices that Aileen incorporates in her daily teaching.
veanda

Inspiring Students through Creativity - NAfME - 0 views

  • learning repertoire and a musical vocabulary using our intuition and reason to create and improvise reflecting on our learning, and learning from exemplars.
  • develop improvisation and composition in a variety of musical styles include improvisation and composition as an integral part of teaching and learning, and assess student learning.
  • Classes and rehearsals can be planned to develop executive skills for singing and playing instruments while also scaffolding the rhythm, tonal, and harmonic understanding necessary for thoughtful improvisation and composition. Through interactive music making, participants confirmed that students need opportunities to think musical thoughts that provide pathways for developing higher-order thinking skills when making music.
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    This article discusses strategies that can be used to continue to encourage students' creativity in music through pedagogical techniques.
veanda

Chris Russell: Inside a High Tech Choir Room « Choral Director Magazine - 0 views

  • The first thing I use is an app for iOS called Attendance2. Every kid is given a QR code, and when they walk into the room they scan in.
  • I like using SmartMusic, not only for projecting sight-reading exercises on the screen and running through them that way, but also for assessment of sight-reading skills.
  • In general, when you integrate technology you are trying to move into transformation, where you transform what you are doing to things you could never do before. The first entry level is substitution, where you are just substituting technology for something else. Then you augment your activities and improve on what you are doing.
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  • modification: that’s the whole new level of application where you can do something you never could do before.
  • he final step is when you have gone through those other levels and you are completely transformed with redefining: you are doing something you could have never possibly thought of before.
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    This interview makes an excellent argument for choosing iPads over Chromebooks, as well as addressing other district one-to-one directives. It also touches on some practical uses of technology in the choral classroom.
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    When integrating technology in the music classroom, teachers need to know exactly what having technology in music looks like. A representative from Choral Director Magazine conducts an interview describing how a teacher has integrated technology in his choir. He provides two examples such as SmartMusic to aid in sight-reading skills and Attendance 2 allowing students to take roll through QR codes as they walk in.
jmpete

On and Off the Podium - 0 views

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    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.
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    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.
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    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!
johntc11

Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | Teachers Pay Teachers - 1 views

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    An online marketplace for teachers to buy and sell classroom resources. I have found many free and low cost worksheets, visuals and even lesson plans online. Resources include worksheets for pitch, rhythm, composers, specific songs, like the Star Spangled Banner and so much more. A valuable resource for a teacher who does not want to "recreate the wheel" OR who is creative and likes to "recreate the wheel" and earn a little cash doing it!
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    Why re-invent the wheel when someone has already created the resource you need? TeachersPayTeachers is that resource for everything from classroom decor to lesson manipulatives and presentations.
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    This is a great resource for any educators. Teachers pay teachers is an online website where teacher share and sell their creative ideas for other teachers to use in their classrooms. You can purchase materials, lessons plans, assessments, and pretty much anything for a lesson plan you are using, or in need of. You are also able to upload and sell your creative ideas to collaborate with your colleagues. This is a useful tool if you find yourself in a jam for a lesson or in need of supplemental materials.
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    Teachers Pay Teachers is a resource for a wide variety of teacher-created lesson plans. Teacher-authors can share their lesson plans and resources via digital download, and receive payment in return. The search function allows teachers to find materials related to a particular subject and view the ratings from other users. Music teachers need to use careful keywords and search tactics to weed out lessons aimed at incorporating songs in the general classroom, but there are many great music education plans about music elements, instruments, guided listening, etc., as well as rubrics and visual aids.
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    Teachers pay teachers is a website that allows educators to purchase curriculum and resources from other educators. There is a wide variety of resources available on the website for every age group and subject area. I find this website to be incredibly helpful when I am looking to use technology in my teaching. Many teachers upload their lessons including links and videos, which allows students to see and hear many great examples of music.
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    Teachers pay teachers is basically the amazon for any educator to find lesson plans, games, manipulatives, and much more. I love to check out teachers pay teachers when I need new ideas on teaching music and generally I look for music games. I actually have a store on TPT, but hardly upload anything because I stay busy. I believe my most popular buy is my music jenga game, if any UFME students want it I would be more than happy to send it your way, for free!
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    Teachers Pay Teachers is a platform where educators can support each other and share resources. There are all kinds of resources available from composer studies, music theory, games, and centers.
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    Teachers Pay Teachers contains music lessons, interactive media, and administrative aids developed by music educators around the world. While many of the resources are for purchase the cost is minimal and there are many available for free. The musical content ranges from specific learning objectives (like steady beat for elementary classrooms) to entire curricular supplements using specific teaching methods (such as Kodaly). While there are resources for performing ensembles, most tend to be for elementary or beginning performing ensemble classes.
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    Great resource for all subject matters. It also keeps a library of all your purchases in case you lose them. All lessons I have bought through here have been of very good quality and easy to use.
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    Site where teachers can find music lesson ideas from other teachers. Print outs, IWB, lessons, etc...
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    Teachers Pay Teachers a website where you can look up different resources for your classroom from sub plans, posters, to fun activities to play with your students. When teaching a specific concept in music class such a dynamics, this resource will have vocabulary with pictures, power-points, and activities to play with students in order to reinforce the concept. It is a great website that eliminates the time component of creating these documents on your own time, while also supporting others teachers with inexpensive prices for their products.
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    This site is great for finding just about anything you could need in the classroom, developed by other teachers! They have general lesson plans, substitute lesson plans, worksheets, and more!
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    Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), is a great resource for lesson plans, bulletin boards, and so much more! While most resources are free, some you do have to pay for.
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    This would be a great source for teachers who need the documentation for certain topics. This website provides every grade level, along with every subject being provided. There are lots of information on this source for free, and there are also many sources that are not free. But it depends on what you want or need. The purpose of this sources is to give teachers a wide range of things, that they may need in their classrooms.
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