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An online music education for children. 

The Children's Music Workshop website provides numerous resources for students, parents, and educators involved with band or orchestra.  It includes advocacy information for parents and helpful videos for students that show the basics of each instrument.  

Educationdgree.com is a beneficial website for me to share with my students. My program is unique in the sense that we not only teach our students the art of playing the steel drum but we work on molding them in to well-rounded citizens as well. This involves several mandatory workshops and a few are focused on college matriculation and registration. This site has the possibility of helping students come to these workshops with a few choices of colleges and universities in mind.

Learning chords for older piano students can be tedious until they can effectively play them in a song. The use of technology could help students learn this necessary music theory skill and make it more enjoyable. 

These teaching strategies and lesson plans provide an easy-to-use and developmentally appropriate practices that can be used in young children's music education. Learn how to incorporate technology in your classroom with teaching strategies that support the National Standards for Music Education. There are great lesson plans that will have your students singing, moving to the music, and learning about language. You'll find helpful resources to incorporate music across your curriculum

This is a great resource for integrating technology in helping students generate a response to classical music while learning about the orchestra.

This is a great website to provide resources for teaching kids to become advocates of music. These are all organizations that Fender has partnered with to help advance music education in local communities. All great resources.

This site offers great articles and ideas for teachers of ALL areas.  There are videos along with articles and can search just about any topic.  I have included a link from edutopia on motivating students. http://www.edutopia.org/blog/strategies-helping-students-motivate-themselves-larry-ferlazzo?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=091615%20enews%20stuengage%20ngm%20remainder&utm_content=&utm_term=fea1pic&spMailingID=12417112&spUserID=NjMzMzA5MzI2NjMS1&spJobID=621135309&spReportId=NjIxMTM1MzA5S0

This website helps to assist teachers in finding example lesson plans for their subject matter.  The site also allows students to search and find a teacher for their instrument.  I would benefit from the lesson plans feature particularly for music theory.

Sing&See is vocal training software that helps you sing better by showing real-time visual feedback on your voice!

Children's Music Workshop is a resource site for parents to help reinforce proper practices for beginning instrument players. It provides tips for putting the horn together and tips on how to help children progress on their instruments.

This website is great for beginning musicians.  It provides instructional videos for the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, violin and cello.  It provides suggestions for the parents of these beginning musicians.  It is a great tool for music advocacy.  

The purpose of this site is to help students improve their knowledge of music theory and keyboard skills. I have used this site when I was teaching middle school choir and band. The site features both lessons to explain new content, as well as exercises to practice and deepen knowledge. I think this would be a great tool to implement in the classroom especially with the use of SMARTboard technology.

Written by Melanie Spanswick, this is a great blog for music educators who focus on teaching the piano.  It includes reviews of method books, smartphone apps, and provides links to helpful videos and podcasts.

Purpose of this resource: Chordify is a useful website for determining the chord progressions of almost any song. Musical Content: Chordify allows users to upload or link to recordings and analyze the chord structure. This works for all genres, including classical music. The chords are displayed in text form, and you can follow the chord changes through the piece while your original file plays. Other information: When using Chordify, educators should double-check the chords. Files with extra sounds (such as applause) can cause the program to add extraneous chords, and suspensions/inversions are not written out. This resource is still helpful for score analysis, and even for choral directors with limited keyboard proficiency. Chord changes can be written in to concert music to allow for a simpler harmonic accompaniment when teaching.

Excellent articles on how to work with adolescent voices are on this site, including much insight on helping boys deal with changing voices.

This site has aided teachers by developing many educational programs and resources covering, notation, sequencing, instructional software, and digital media. It also gives info about conferences and workshops. You must become a paid member to access the full website.

TIME is a website dedicated to helping educators integrate technology into their classrooms. Though the site is education generic, there are a great number of articles pertaining to music education. TIME and NAfME recently joined forces to present a music and technology session at the NAfME convention this year, dedicated specifically to the music technology space.

This is an article about the implementation of technology in music instruction to reach the other 80% of students who are not enrolled in traditional music ensembles. It offers so great suggestions as to how to get started. IT provides a number of helpful resources.

The purpose of this resource is to gain resources and ideas for piano students. This source is mainly for piano teachers and provides them with resources and ideas that will help inspire their teaching.

A great online resource for educators seeking a tool to help students gain fluency at sight reading music. This interactive tool allows for you to schedule assignments at customized levels as well a customized instrumentation.

This YouTube channel has many great videos about music history and theory. These short videos provide an excellent way to help students learn using multi-media, appealing to the visual learner.

YouTube channel with many educational videos about music

Technology ideas for teaching music by Dr. Wallis of Auburn University. She includes helpful links.

Technology ideas for teaching music by Dr. Walls of Auburn University. She includes helpful links.

Great ideas for the technology for music teachers. This website has great links and information about music technology it would an asset to any teacher.