SmartMusic: music education software for educators and students. Make practicing and tracking student progress easy and fun.
Smart Music is similar in features to Band in a Box. It allows teachers to create recordings for their student to practice with!
SmartMusic: music education software for educators and students. Make practicing and tracking student progress easy and fun.
Smart Music is similar in features to Band in a Box. It allows teachers to create recordings for their student to practice with!
Smart music is a great for students and teachers. This also helps the helps students with their practice. It also helps teachers understand the problems that students have during practice. The assessment is also great for students and teachers.
This is a fun website/tool where woodwind players/students can create their own fingering chart. It is also another way to assess students on knowing their fingerings for their instrument. There are a number of ways to change the chart in size and color.
This interactive TED lesson offers a fun video introduction to learning how to read music along with multiple choice questions, higher level questions, and discussion boards.
Making Music Fun website has information and resources for teachers and students about composers and instruments. It also includes printable worksheets that would be great for a "rainy day. "
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.
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
A software tool to create visual 'bubble' maps representing the musical form of user provided audio files in mp3, wav, or m4a formats. This is the software that I reviewed for Module 5, and it just works for the purpose it was created. Educational and at the same time just plain fun to play around with!
This article describes the difference between active and passive listening, and how to incorporate the elements of music to be used in active listening exercises.
Fun website that allows you to play the drums using the keys on your keyboard- this would be a great way to introduce students to creating rhythms and patterns.
Fun and (mostly) kid friendly website with links for kids to learn more about music and composers with somewhat of a piano focus. Uses the Dr. Who "Tardis" to travel through time and space to meet different composers, which could a cool "hook" for students with an interest in the Dr. Who BBC show.
The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Kids website is a fun interactive website for students that allows for students to discover, listen, play, perform, conduct, and compose music through interactive activities and games.
Games, lessons, and information about classical and orchestral music for kids made available through the San Fransisco Symphony. Resources for teachers, parents, and students are also available. It is a flashed based platform so it may not work on some systems.
This is an online space where you can hear what you type, played by a variety of sounds. This program is fun to experiment with and one can create a variety of patterns, and share as well.
This is a terrific collection of music listening activities compiled by a music teacher. These would be great for elementary and middle school students - a fun collection of ideas is here!
A great resource to find similar music. Students enjoy seeing the wealth of connections inherent in music and can help with courses like rock history or general music. Very fun!
This website is a spin off of a Podcast from Mrs. Miracle. MusiQuest is an application designed to utilize technology to make music education accessible, creative and fun, and in keeping with digital advancement. Different music genres, personalize learning, cross curricular studies, song writing and sketching, melody, and, literacy and drama are a few of the attractions fo this website.
BrainPOP is a great site for video lessons on music. The videos are very basic in design with the elementary level in mind, but could be of good use for any introductory music course.
Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. BrainPOP is a fun interactive site for young students to take control of their own learning. It allows for students to learn about concepts and composers that most interest them. There is lessons embedded into the program as well as videos to go along.