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Music Delta comes with an ever growing collection of courses. Whether you want to learn about the music of Mozart or the different styles of jazz, there is courses for you. The courses contain articles, interactive applications, music examples and quizzes from the large content that is Music Delta. The students can take the courses the teacher has pinned to the class course list. The teacher can track the student's progress and score.

This free site includes an on-line orchestration course and a free jazz arranging course. There are sample music libraries, a virtual instrument forum, Linux Audio and music discussions related to sound software and open source initiatives, a virtual piano forum, and many more topics for students and teachers.

The College Board's AP Music Theory homepage is an invaluable resource for AP Music Theory test preparation. It contains resources for both teachers and students, including descriptions of the course, articles about teaching AP Music Theory, score reports, and a listing of professional development opportunities and seminars. Most importantly, it contains an archive of past free-response test questions (including both harmonic and melodic dictations) and sight-singing examples, along with (scored and annotated) example responses.

A site with free digital resources for building online course content. Adding links to pages for students is a good first step, but making it visually stunning has been a challenge for me. These free resources allows to spice up the visual layout of course pages.

A blog from the Harmony Road site which provides several tips for teaching a group piano course.

This is a great website for all jazz piano players. This is for the beginning jazz pianist or the experienced. It takes the reader/ student through a series of lessons that are chronological in nature. There are links to blogs and products that can help any level of piano player. The videos explaining jazz concepts are well laid out and very educational.

This website offers jazz tutorial videos for jazz pianists. It offers a beginners course where it outlines the basics and slowly increases the difficulty level. Coaching videos are available on a variety of skills and topics

This website is a great resource for learning to play jazz piano. It offers coaching and beginner courses. The site also provides professional development and support for educators.

After using this website for a graduate level course in American Vernacular Music History, I was really impressed with it's use for educators. Organize music history in a timeline view to allow students to click and learn more on their own.

This is the companion website to textbook for the Technology Assisted Music Learning class. It includes information about current online resources, lesson plans and many other ways to use technology in the music classroom.

The purpose of this site is to provide a companion website for use with the book "Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music." This bookmark is useful as a quick access to reference material pertinent to our use of technology in the classroom as well as in the MUE6696 course.

This website serves the purpose of giving music teachers from grades 1-12 games, music symbols, guitar chords, and rhythm exercises for teaching. It allows teachers to have something to give students when preparing for a test or the next section of a class. This website includes features such as midi pianos, ear training courses, the lines treble and bass clefs for study, and rhythm games for understanding and foundation.

This page is a good beginners who need a crash course in Music History or for those  who need a quick brushing up on a subject before an exam.

Great site for any music teacher! For those who have ever struggled with catchy bulletin board music themes, this site has a ton of kits to download and use all throughout the year. The themes range from seasons, to advocacy, to careers in music. Of course, they do not come for free. If you are willing to shed some cash, they are all around $6.00. Otherwise, if you can recreate them on your own, then that will save your pockets some stress! In any event, this will definitely be a bookmark for the ages!

MOOCs are online courses, many from top universities, some of them include a completion certificate or the equivalent. How to play the guitar is offered by UC Berkley. Other music classes are listed here, too.

Check out this site! It's purpose is to educate teachers on the use of technology in their music classrooms. There are news stories, courses, conferences, links, and resources for technology in music education. You may want to join and become a member.

Another great app for those silly Freshmen and Sophomore voice majors. They often perform lieder, so this would be a great tool for them.

The purpose of this resource is to provide examples of music curriculum that is based on creativity through technology integration in the classroom. The website lists and provides several examples of music courses designed to engage the non-traditional music student through technology.

Blog dedicated to analyzing jazz and the pioneers that established the art.  Provided with rich historical context and a wealth of pictures, this could be used really well with a high-level jazz course.

This is a website that gathers resources of free music technology for teachers. It's easy to use and inludes workshops, online courses, lesson plans, and websites. Happy hunting!

Great website for beginning class piano courses

Teachers will be introduced to Google Apps for Education as a resource to enhance collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity with students, colleagues and their school community. Emphasis will be placed on introducing resources that provide best practices when using Google Apps for Education. The course is online and divided into 10 self paced modules. Each module can be completed individually. Staff will demonstrate completion of each module through a Google Form. 

Auralia5 and Musition5 are very good soft wares for a music classroom. Auralia is for ear training, while Musition is for music theory. These softwares enhance a student's musicianship through very interesting activities of listening, composing, notating music, and sight reading/playing. A school has to purchase the software, though it is cloud based. The teacher adds students to different classes in the groups so that when assignments are set, they are easily submitted to the class where they belong. Teachers can create and assign worksheets, tests, and courses, and grade his/her students online as well. Tracking allows the teachers to run exams with high quality content that students love. Reports are also created in the software and parents can access their children's performance. Auralia and Musition are perfect for students of all ages and abilities. Auralia has a clean, easy to use interface designed to keep students focused on their essential ear training task.

This makes me seriously want to reconsider learning guitar. I'm not gonna lie, as a pianist, I had a horrible time with the guitar in my undergrad methods course. My piano fingers just didn't want to do what the guitar needed them to do. This piece of technology could be a game changer. It just looks fun... thinking about trying again thanks to www.jamstik.com