This website was created by an Iowa band director and has many resources and information about music technology. It includes a blog, sheet music, professional articles, and podcasts.
This site contains useful information and articles that inform music teachers about various music resources. Resources include podcasts, products, NAFME news and popular music technologies.
Offers a variety of resources, podcasts, demonstrations, and reviews. Downloads of popular songs are available, along with software and technology ideas and articles.
This blog is provides a updates on current trends in music education technology. Posts also include ideas on curriculum and additional professional resources for teachers.
This website lists a large assortment of music education games that cover aural training, composers, compositions, instruments, notation, and symbols/vocabulary. "Ultimate List" is an accurate title! This looks like a compilation of several games from several websites all pulled into one. This is fantastic.
The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games is a website filled with numerous resources available in aural training, composers, composition, instruments, notation, symbols/vocabulary and variety. These are free and students could even use them while at home and teachers can use to reinforce any lesson.
This collection of podcasts features presentations and examples of communities and school districts that have made changes to increase their music offerings to children. Many of the podcasts promote music advocacy and the benefits of making music available to all children.
Improvisation in Early Elementary General Music. This article explores how to improvise with your young students, starting with rhythm and then moving on to pitch. There are several singing games referenced with explanations on how to play and how to relate it to improvisation. This article breaks down the process of teaching improvisation and takes the initial fear out of it.
One Size Fits All Band Books is a collection of public domain music that is arranged for instrumental groups of any size or instrumentation. Each instrument is provided with the melody and one other part (harmony, bass line, or percussion). Selections are sorted by title, genre, and difficulty.
This website is an extensive list of music apps that have been reviewed for entertainment and educational value. The site shows apps by category and even has a free app section. The app reviews are informative and the author actually tests them on children.
This website provides suggestions of apps that can be used in the classroom. The creator reviews apps and suggests how they can be used in a variety of classrooms. This is where I found the app I reviewed for this week's assignment!
This can be used by any educator including music educators to create flashcards for their students and do a class review. This would be great for a music vocabulary quiz or something similar such as instrument families.
This site allows you to meta-search images for course design pages. In putting together Canvas or Google Classroom pages having resources for non-proprietary digital images is a huge help.
Marching band is something that a lot of people have to do, but not everyone has great experience as a marching director. This site provides a free podcast put together by some of the prolific minds in the marching band and drum corps world to help give ideas and provide strategies for improving public school programs.
This website is a great resource for those involved in the marching arts. There are many informative podcasts that go over everything from marching show design to judging criteria. This is a huge tool for high school band directors and marching band staff members
This site is a great resource for everything band related. You can find theory sheets, instrument fingering charts and even band trip support documents. Membership is free!
This website includes educational videos, PDFs of fingering charts, trill charts, seating charts, and links to music and music vendors. This is a great website to visit for useful links all stored in one place.
This website includes educational videos, PDFs of fingering charts, trill charts, seating charts, and links to music and music vendors. This is a great website to visit for useful links all stored in one place.
This is a forum-based website where teachers can share resources and media that they find useful. Available media include videos, fingering charts, rubrics, and blog posts, just to name a few. Though primarily geared towards middle school level, their are resources that can be found useful for all levels of band instruction.
Download this program to arrange and create your own midi creations. You do not need a midi keyboard to use this. The computer keypad can be used to play the midi sounds.
This is a list and explanation of several rhythm games for use in the elementary classroom. Some of the games are, Poison Rhythm, Pass the Ball, and "I have, Who Has". There are also suggestions on how to use heart charts, boomwhackers, and how to include children when playing a game where someone is "out".
This website offers high-quality educational videos that can be filtered by content type, student education level, video duration, and subtitles. The music videos are good for developing students' ability to respond and connect with music. These are not tutorials, but discussions about various music-related topics.
This is one of my favorite apps. It allows you to upload your scores and sheet music to your iPad. Within the app you can have a metronome play and it will highlight incorrect notes.
Incredibox is a website where students may be introduced to loop-based composing and combining of sounds. There are four versions. Students learn to choose elements, combine elements, order elements, and are able to record their finished works.