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A website that helps teachers use their iPad in their music classrooms. It contains resources and advice on apps and software that will benefit the modern music class.

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Great ideas in the implementation of iPads in the music classroom

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.

Teachnology offers music educators a vast assortment of planning tools for all subject areas, including music education. Plans are broken down by age levels to make planning easier. These plans could easily be taken and tweaked for any music classroom, more than likely leading to the creation of original ideas by educators.

This blog follows a teacher and his endeavors through his career. It offers ideas for other music educators and plenty on information that could be used by all music educators.

This blog follows a teacher and his endeavors through his career. It offers ideas for other music educators and plenty on information that could be used by all music educators.

This site has many beneficial elements to it. There are resources for teachers (including worksheets, drills, and games for students), video lessons, and even music-related quotes. It looks like a great place to share with others and get some great ideas.

This website contains a huge variety of resources for music teachers of all levels. From printable worksheets to posters and lesson ideas, this website has it all. This website even contains tips for classroom management and app ideas.

Great website for resources, especially for elementary education. Has a category list that breaks everything down easily, and also works well with Pinterest.

This article offers insight to the new iOS updates on iPhones and iPads that allow for things such as split screen. This will offer music educators ideas on what and how they can now use their apps.

This article offers insight to the new iOS updates on iPhones and iPads that allow for things such as split screen. This will offer music educators ideas on what and how they can now use their apps.

This website connects teachers with their choice of skilled adjudicators from around the US. The purpose of these connections is to get your ensembles critiqued BEFORE going to a festival/competition event so you have an idea of what to work on. Songs are submitted via recording to your chosen adjudicator (for a fee).

This website connects teachers with their choice of skilled adjudicators from around the US. The purpose of these connections is to get your ensembles critiqued BEFORE going to a festival/competition event so you have an idea of what to work on. Songs are submitted via recording to your chosen adjudicator (for a fee).

This resource serves as a simple list that can be used for choral teachers of different ability levels to get a basic handle on teaching middle school chorus. It offers many teaching ideas that can help teachers become more connected with their student's singing through their teaching. There's many categories for the teaching techniques including: teaching middle-level girls, boys, and mixed voices.

Teachers pay teachers is user content for other users to use. For a small fee (or free in many cases!), an educator could find lessons, activities, resources, or curriculum that would work well for their specific teaching situation. For a teacher with ideas and resources looking to make a little bit of extra money, they could put up their own content for others to buy.

This website list 10 top rated sites that offer free music education resources, e.g., technology, music and instrument lessons, platforms for educations to share ideas, web based curriculum,

Resources for grades K-5, involving age-appropriate lessons and ideas. Ideas center around pitch, form, dynamics, rhythms, meter, performing, singing, tempo, meter, etc.

Carnegie Hall has a great resource for music educators who teach K-5th grade general music. They list the activities by grade, and even tell you what you can use each resource for (i.e. teaching rhythm, meter, singing, etc.).

The Carnegie Hall Education page for Educators provides teaching resources to teachers. They provide lesson plans, meeting certain standards, for grades K-5. These lesson plans cover everything from the basics to composition to improvisation with Brazilian Sama

This website is the Chrome Music lab. There are activities to explore all the elements of music. Some of the activities are composition related. There are visual representations of sound as well. You need to use the Chrome browser for them to work. My students really enjoyed this site.

This is a site that helps music teachers teach across the curriculum by connecting music to math, science, and art. These are online experiments that are interactive and have explanations behind the experiments.

Created by Google developers, this site contains various apps associated with different musical elements with the premise that users would simply explore. Songmaker and Kadinsky allow the creation of musical ideas while others explore rhythm chords, and how sound functions. Each app is extremely easy to use and is beneficial in any general music setting.

This music teacher has great ideas. Her blog is a great choice to add fresh ideas to your classroom.

This is a music teacher blog with great teaching strategies, lesson ideas, bulletin board suggestions and general music support. This is a k-5 general music classroom blog with some choral and band mixed in.

This is an excellent music education blog to follow and is updated frequently by a music teacher! I love following Mrs. King's blog because she provides new ways to teach elementary music via games, manipulatives and much more.

This website offers worksheets, games, and tutorial videos for teachers to use with their younger piano students (K-6 to) to enhance student engagement and understanding. Some basic theory is taught in the form of colorful dittos for students, and other theory or technique is taught by game-based worksheets. There are a number of resources to accommodate major holidays and calendar events as well. There are many link that branch off into different other sites to facilitate the sharing of ideas with other educators. Videos are also included to demonstrate how various games and lessons should be structured for maximum efficiency.

This website is a great resource for classroom music teachers! It is a collection of posts about music teaching and resources. The resources are free and include items such as free manuscript paper to use in class, posters to print, game instructions, and lesson ideas. You can search with keyboards or filter the posts.

This site provides a plethora of jazz education advice. This is made by either professional jazz musicians or educators. It covers topics as style, improvisation and jazz history. This type of information would be useful to jazz educators.

This resource offers advice on a range of jazz improvisation topics for the aspiring jazz musician. The writer brakes down common problems an improvising musician faces and offers structured exercises and ideas to overcome particular musical issues.

This resource offers advice on a range of jazz improvisation topics for the aspiring jazz musician. The writer brakes down common problems an improvising musician faces and offers structured exercises and ideas to overcome particular musical issues.

Adam Neely explores unique and interesting ideas that pertain to music theory, composition, and instrument technique. He has an interesting take on particular musical concepts and offers various ways in which they can be explored creatively.

Adam Neely explores unique and interesting ideas that pertain to music theory, composition, and instrument technique. He has an interesting take on particular musical concepts and offers various ways in which they can be explored creatively.

Several Resources and Ideas for use in schools especially for Alternative Music Programs. Informational for both traditional and non-traditional instruction classes including band, orchestra, alternative programs, and composition sites. In addition, there are publications provided from research to support the need for the variety of programs in school.

Several Resources and Ideas for use in schools especially for Alternative Music Programs. Informational for both traditional and non-traditional instruction classes including band, orchestra, alternative programs, and composition sites. In addition, there are publications provided from research to support the need for the variety of programs in school.

This is a website on using a Smart board in a band/ music class.

The purpose of this page is to provide a Whiteboard resource with 10 excellent ways to incorporate the IWB into music lessons. Several of these ideas were new to me and I look forward to exploring them in my classroom.

This article describes ways to use an interactive whiteboard for music learning. Many of the ideas may be best suited for a general music classroom but can also be incorporated into rehearsal settings. IWBs can be used to teaching the reading and writing of music notation. They can also be used to teach music form and history, and interactive lessons with video, power points, and games. IWBs help engage many learning styles at once and keep students engaged.