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Article written to support the use of technology to compliment instruction and enhance student learning instead of technology for technology sake. Teachers should use social media cites, e.g., blogs, to facilitate discussion and feedback from students, create online PLNs. The cross curricular benefit is increasing writing facility and literacy. A couple of concerns are cyberbullying and parents who may question how much learning is taking place with social media. Educators can help others, including students, understand that music learning can take place outside of the classroom through social media and broaden the audience.

The Cool Cat Teacher Blog is written maintained by educator, Vicki Davis. Her mission is to keep teachers inspired and motivated. This is not specifically a music education resource, but the information contained on the blog can be helpful for teachers of any subject area. I am specifically interested in the aspect of Social Media and the Classroom.

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 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.

This site is the home to Huei-Yuan Pan - one the most influential marching percussion education specialists in the United States. The site offers media, lessons, sheet music, and links to Huei's educational social media pages

Music transcription software

ScoreCloud is a free notational software. There is also a paid version, but the free version is fully functional. This program allows for MIDI input, traditional computer notation input, and also translates live music performance into notation. The online features of this program allow for sharing of files with others through email and social media. ScoreCloud is downloadable as a computer program and application for IOS devices. This program could be used to help teach music creativity, music literacy, and music response.

ScoreCloud is a free notational software. There is also a paid version, but the free version is fully functional. This program allows for MIDI input, traditional computer notation input, and also translates live music performance into notation. The online features of this program allow for sharing of files with others through email and social media. ScoreCloud is downloadable as a computer program and application for IOS devices. This program could be used to help teach music creativity, music literacy, and music response.

The JLCO has a series of videos available for students to learn virtually from members of the band. The media library includes numerous videos about warming up, comping, blues, and jazz history.

Doug Butchy complies a collection of music education related online resources distributed daily. He draws from blogs, Twitter and other social media sites to collect this information. His collection of links is a great starting point for daily reading.

This website from Smithsonian Jazz gives teachers resources for teaching jazz education to students.  There are free lesson plans and recordings for teachers to utilize.  In some instances, lesson plans are organized by age groups.

This site is created to provide an American historical view of jazz. It offers exhibits and collections as well as items for jazz appreciation.

This site is a resource for jazz composers, Composition, Media examples, and Jazz events. 

Pinterest is a social media site where many different users share different ideas on all different topics. There are many great music education resources found here. Links to blogs, podcasts, and wikis are very helpful.

Rhett Price is using social media to advertise and support his record.  He only used a laptop to start his videos.  What a great story and great way to use technology! 

Podcast for learning about jazz artists, specific albums and genres of jazz. There are currently 269 podcasts that are free and describe many different artists such as: Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Louis Armstrong, BIll Evans, Duke Ellington, plus many, many more. THe podcasts are created by Dr. Gordon Vernick, Associate Professor of Music at Georgia State. This is fantastic resource for students as well as educators. 

It's easy to teach and celebrate the classic composers: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc., but this article discusses ways to incorporate the composers that are still alive today that are still creating new media in our art form.

Thelessonroom.com is an online musical education resource that offers a teacher directory, student directory, featured educators, video lessons, sheet music, worksheets, articles, and gear tips. The media available on theLessonroom.com is one of a kind and provides valuable articles and worksheets ranging from

On this PDF, there are many links that connect to music sites that students can use. All of the programs are "in the cloud". Students can access these from any computer, at home, school or on the road. All sites are included to facilitate musical creativity.

This is a document that is a resource for creativity and technology for music learning put together by Dr. William Bauer for the FETC in Orlando, Florida on January 31, 2014. Other headings include: technology to facilitate musical creativity and general cloud-based technologies useful for facilitating musical creativity. This page is an excellent resource to develop ideas for learning with technology in the classroom. Many of the programs are free, easy to use and applicable to many educational ideas.  

Musical Creativity in the Cloud is a Google Doc by Dr. William I. Bauer. It is a list of resources to integrate technology into the music classroom and encourage creative thinking. Each item on the list will facilitate organization, creativity, or music learning. Dr. Bauer comprised a list of fifty resources to integrate technology into the music classroom including notation software, cloud-based libraries, media players, and organizational tools.

The Library of Congress has a plethora of information and media related to music education. Within the archives of the Library of Congress are recordings of folk songs, articles about music in America, and podcasts. One of these podcast collections is about Music and the Brain where research related to music and how it affects the brain is reviewed and discussed. This is an excellent resource for music advocacy. It is also a great resource for better understanding music learning.

The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge site contains a wealth of lessons, activities, and supporting information to enhance arts education. There is an extensive media library containing audio stories, performance clips and other viable information for students.

This was another great find from Dr. Bauer's resource list that provides an overview of Art History. This website is of interest to me for the natural connections of art and music to cultural heritage, and as an IB teacher, these connections are the basis for the media script internal assessment.

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

A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.