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This band director put together a list of his top four requirements for tech for the band room. That doesn't mean that he actually has it...

This site explores various uses for GarageBand. They aren't all just for music class.

This site explores various uses for GarageBand. They aren't all just for music class.

This resource has many ideas that link technology to teaching band.  Several technological links are: twitter, note trainers, and videos.

This resource has many ideas that link technology to teaching band.  Several technological links are: twitter, note trainers, and videos.

TeacherVision.com is not a music education website exclusively, however, it provides many great resources that music teachers may find interesting or helpful. The site contains printables, graphic organizers, lesson plans, tips on classroom management, and great links to apps and software.

Great website that shows how to playback/record songs on iOS  GarageBand. There are videos that demonstrate how to make the songs that are listed in varying degrees of difficulty (from easy, intermediate to difficult). This is a good resource for students to learn how to create songs on iOS GarageBand. 

Great website that describes apps for different educational subjects. Additionally, the website has links for how to use apps for teaching. The website is easily maneuverable and is organized by genre and each app lists the cost, description as well as the iOS platform. Excellent website for educators learning about using iOS in their classrooms. 

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.

This program allows you to take anything that is showing on your handheld devices and display it up on a screen. Just like the function of AirPlay on an AppleTV, it shows everything that you can see. It is much cheaper than an AppleTV and requires no chords. Both audio and video will be reflected.

This app allows the teacher to notate music by hand, and then see it notated digitally right above the handwritten part. The best part is that the app will then play the music back and allow the classroom to hear what it is supposed to sound like.

Music Prodigy Core makes practice and assessments easier. Instant red note/green note evaluation as students play A comprehensive solution for all voices, strings, percussion, winds, guitar, piano (patented polyphonic pitch recognition system) All student levels, general music through university No external microphone required Includes thousands of music titles No training required Teacher classroom dashboard with pre-formatted student progress reports iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, Mac OS X, and Amazon Kindle Fire

A program that is built from the teacher's perspective, Music Prodigy provides students with an area to practice, using a built-in metronome.  Assessment is also available in this program.  As its name implies, you will build musical prodigies.

This is a website for the University of Florida Masters of music in Music Education. UFMUE

110 free music education apps, available on the App store, and are organized into multiple folders ranging from listening and sound exploration to instruments and ear training. Great resource for a wide range of music technology to use for classroom instruction!

110 free music education apps, available on the App store, and are organized into multiple folders ranging from listening and sound exploration to instruments and ear training. Great resource for a wide range of music technology to use for classroom instruction!

This lesson idea explores some interesting ways of integrating different technologies in order to practice and assess dynamics.

Mrs. Miracle's Music Room has a wealth of information. Besides the usual blog with free lesson plans and a link to her www.teacherspayteachers.com store, she also has a link to her podcast and facebook group. She includes easy to use labels to sort the blogs as well as a link to highlight her classroom design and organization. Her blogs range in topics from specific lesson plans to teacher self-care and learning styles in the music classroom. She is a Kodaly trained teacher and her blog is geared towards K-6 general music.

The blog has a myriad of resources for the elementary music classroom. I have followed this blog for years and have pulled resources and ideas from it quite often. Examples of resources I have used recently are music centers and music technology/iPad apps.

Mrs. Miracle's blog incorporates a ton of resources for the elementary school teacher. She posts podcasts, lesson plans, and different activities that she does in her classroom. There is also the option to download freebies or purchase activities from her store (similar to Teachers Pay Teachers).The blog also discusses learning styles and best practices that Aileen incorporates in her daily teaching.

This interview makes an excellent argument for choosing iPads over Chromebooks, as well as addressing other district one-to-one directives. It also touches on some practical uses of technology in the choral classroom.

When integrating technology in the music classroom, teachers need to know exactly what having technology in music looks like. A representative from Choral Director Magazine conducts an interview describing how a teacher has integrated technology in his choir. He provides two examples such as SmartMusic to aid in sight-reading skills and Attendance 2 allowing students to take roll through QR codes as they walk in.

Morton Subotnick's Creating Music has a variety of music games and activities that would be suited for an elementary curriculum. I would like to use this website as a center in my classroom, to allow students to explore simple music creation and music listening.

Creating music is a site preferably for younger learners. It provides practice on pitches, timbres, ear training, and memorization.

Younger musicians can use this website to understand pitch, hearing music and create basic compositions. There is an iPad application that goes along with it and it is completely free and a great educational tool for younger children.

This site gives students the ability to create satisfying compositions that explore texture using loops that are designed to fit in with each other. Perfectly suited for differentiation, students can create works that are simple or complex.

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Incredibox is a web-based mixing tool, and its purpose is to create mixes with pre-set loops including, beats, effects, voices, and melodies. In each "dude", the user needs to select a "clothing piece" that contains a specific loops. The user begins creating their mixes, and can add and delete them as needed. Musically speaking, it is a teaching tool because the user learns how to mix loops ate certain points. It enhance several concepts such as rhtyhm and meter. It can be used by elementary and secondary-level students.

This podcast has a technology focus and puts out weekly episodes. There are over 73 episodes with topics that vary from apps to websites to equipment.

The Music Tech Teacher Podcast hosted by Katie Wardrobe has become one of my favorite podcasts. I am teaching music technology for the first time this year and various episodes regarding productivity for music teachers and using technology such as iPads in the classroom are extremely helpful.

This is a podcast for music technology teachers, which is good for anyone who is looking to get into the study of technology when it comes to music. The podcast are discussions of many topics, to give tips on how how to be come better at the specific topic.

MusicTheory.net is a free resource that provides lessons and practice on music theory concepts. Lessons include musical concepts such as note names, meter, scales, key signatures, intervals, chords, chord progressions and more. Each lessons comes with exercises that provide an opportunity for students to gain confidence with the concept at hand. Exercises can be personalized to the students knowledge and ability.

Musictheory.net is a free and powerful online resource for teachers who are looking lessons, student exercises or other learning tools. Teachers can browse various lessons that cover topics ranging from the basics of the staff to understanding complex time signatures. The lessons on this website can prove to be useful for all levels of music education.

Musictheory.net is a great resource for students to learn about music theory and explore learning more on their own. The lessons and exercises are well-crafted and of great quality. The recent addition of apps for lessons and exercises provides a great low-cost option for students to continue learning on their own, but also allows for classrooms to be equipped with the apps for low costs, assuming that iPads are available.

Easily create your own rubrics. Complete rubrics on iPads, tablets or phones. Collect data offline with no internet access. Compute scores automatically. Print rubrics or save as PDF or spreadsheet.