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Research-based strategies for making the music classroom more inclusive for special needs learners.

Music first is a great resource for any K-12. The website offer teaching features using some of the best teaching technology for music.

MusicFirst is an online classroom that offers users premium access to many popular web-based music software titles with one paid subscription. It acts as a "hub" for students and teachers to easily discover and use a variety of tools and programs. The website also provides useful resources for building a technology-based curriculum. The features of this online classroom are designed for learning, creating, and sharing music.

An excellent `learning management system designed for music educators. I would love to use this in place of Google Classroom.

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 is a groundbreaking trio of apps: NotateMe, which converts handwritten music into printed notation; PhotoScore, which converts PDF scores to notation; and AudioScore, which converst Mp3 and CD tracks to Notation. These apps will allow music teachers to quickly create and arrange music for their music classes and lessons!

This is a GREAT sight reading tool! This allows you to choose your instrument, the level for sight-reading, the time signature, and the key in which you wish it to produce a sight-reading exercise. This is very easy to use and will produce 8 new measures of sight-reading based on the aforementioned attributes.

This app generates sight reading exercises within specified guidelines. It can be adjusted for instrument, difficulty level, time signature and key signature

This series of articles contain TONS of ideas for using iPads and other technology in the general music classroom. She asks what is the real use for technology - and has surprising answers. Her students also provided much fodder for thought that she shares here.

This is a simple online metronome tool that can be used in a pinch during practice. The makers of this website are also currently working on a database where musicians can share practice tips.

This is a good free online metronome for students requiring a browser based metronome. There It also contains articles about metronomes and tempo. There are links to other products and downloads on the metronome page.

An online metronome ideal for quick and easy use while practicing music, this music tool helps with your rhythm as well as tempo selections and it is always available for free to all students of music at metronomeonline.com

This website is a great source for teaching about music, opera and could even integrate literature with story line, characters, setting, etc.

An outstanding resource for music educators categorized and tagged based on topic. Fantastic!

This website is a blog focusing on music technology in our classroom. It includes different reviews and information about software and other technologies in our classroom. This will be very useful in staying up to date with the newest programs and ideas.

This website is a blog focusing on music technology in our classroom. It includes different reviews and information about software and other technologies in our classroom. This will be very useful in staying up to date with the newest programs and ideas.

The purpose of this website is to provide information on some of the newest technology programs being created for music educators and musicians. The content ranges from new apps to create music, to new notation software, to discussions on the new music education standards that include technology. It also features useful tips for individual instruments.

This site contains blogs of reviews of music education based technology, as well as discussions of topics relevant to music education and technology.

Details Written by Chad Criswell In the same vein as other music note ID training apps NinGenius goes the extra mile to make the tedious task of learning to read music a whole lot more fun.

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 articles contains thoughts on developing rules and procedures in the beginning band classroom. It discusses possible tactics to get the most out of your beginning band students.

This articles contains thoughts on developing rules and procedures in the beginning band classroom. It discusses possible tactics to get the most out of your beginning band students.

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.

This article discusses possible uses for PBL in the music classroom.

This is a simple, free, loop based music sequencer that allows students to create short compositions. It is very simple and easy to learn and nicely shows subdivisions. The sound samples are of high quality.

This is Google's free experimental sequencer, created in 2018. There is very little verbal information - it is intuitive, simple and easy, and could be used with very young students. It also could be used by someone who doesn't read English.

This is another great, simple, web-based music sequencer that can be used to allow students to experiment with composition without needing to know anything about reading music or writing music notation. There is a large amount of sounds available and the sounds are of high quality. It is very simple to use and students can start composing right away using this site.

Similar to Soundtrap.com; this online DAW is a great resource for student to create music with loops. I've used this in a technology class and students enjoy the variety of loops.

Soundation is a fully functioning cloud-based DAW, similar to Soundtrap. The look is darker and more professional, and the effects processing is more sophisticated. This could be a good option for college-level recording and collaboration, whereas Soundtrap's colorful look and simplicity would be more appropriate for middle- and high-school use.

Soundation is a Digital Audio Workstation similar to sound trap though soundation appears more professional, and the effects are more sophisticated. With soundation, students learn to do recording, editing, mixing, instrument patches, and MIDI input. Soundation is good for university level whereas Soundtrap's simplicity is good for middle and high school. Like soundtrap, it has a free one month trial with limited accessibility and to access the full premium, one has to pay. Soundation helps students acquire the 4Cs i.e Collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. It is a good resource for teaching studio composition and for enhancing the musicianship of non traditional music students.

Music Learning Community is a site for music educators and music students that includes a great deal of information on computer-based learning. Included are games and activities that teach theory and build aural skills. There is a free trial but the site requires a membership fee.

This website offers hundreds of interactive games to teach students music theory, rhythms, ear-training, sight-reading, and notation analysis. Designed to make learning musical concepts and take-home assignments more fun and engaging, these games are broken down into various levels for students. Lower levels can be effective for early elementary students, and higher levels can be effective for students in high school. Games are colorful and entertaining, and they list certain scores that students should strive to achieve. Most games have a lesson version, a practice version, and a quiz version. Teachers can track scores and data of individual students to see strengths and weaknesses.

This website has many games that can be used to learn various musical concepts. Some games are free, but there are more games with the paid subscription. You can pay monthly or yearly and it can be used for 5 to 50 people.