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Splice is a cloud platform for music creation, collaboration and sharing.

Splice is a cloud platform for music creation, collaboration and sharing.

This service creates a live back-up of work being completed in a digital audio workstation (or DAW). On the site it boasts ease of use, flexible collaboration (by allowing you to share work with other users), endless inspiration (in the form of a vast library of loops and sounds within its DAW), and most importantly, unlimited space! Sign up is free.

The Music and Sound Design Platform is a new approach to making electronic and electro-acoustic music. Music_SDP uses many of the same tools and processes that are found in your favorite music software, but introduces a new paradigm for exploring sounds, performing songs, and writing electro-acoustic compositions.

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,

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. 

Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. We make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. We offer nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.

QuestBase is a free, cross-platform application that provides Everything you need to create and manage your assessments, tests, quizzes and exams, both on-line and printed. Designed as a training and learning tool, QuestBase can also be used for selection tests, psychological tests, satisfaction and opinion surveys, market researches and customer feedback.

Roger Day is one of my all time, favorite children's musicians. This is his official website and features videos, lyrics to songs, booking information and merchandise. His newest CD, Marsh Mud Madness stays true to his educational platform and teaches children interesting facts about wetlands in a fun, exciting, musical way.

This is a page on the Music Matters Blog reviewing the InTune App available on iTunes. This app operates on a game platform and has students distinguish which pitch is higher or lower. Pitches get progressively closer as the level increases.

Audacity is a powerful open-source audio editor made available on a variety of platforms. The program includes features of recording, post-processing, and mixing. The editing tools featured in Audacity are powerful and easy to use. Users are able to create complete and high quality recordings from start to finish without having to spend thousands of dollars on professional recording and editing software. 

This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.

This website helps students build their music theory skills. It offers tutorials, articles, and exercises for both ear training and written theory

This is one of the useful music theory website available for educators to use in class to assist in teaching basic music theory. The site includes articles, tutorials, and references for teaching music theory.

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.

Choralnet.org is a site specifically geared towards chorus directors and teachers of vocal music. The site contains blogposts, open discussion forums and links to various online resources such as teaching materials and concert repertoire. The purpose of the site is to serve as a platform for chorus directors to share ideas with one another or use it to seek advice or help from other experienced educators.

This is the website for the app Complete Ear Trainer. It is an aural skills development app that is completely free to use and allows educators to complete custom lessons and groups for their students. It is available of Android, iOS, and Amazon platforms.

This platform is perfect for musician websites. I've been using this for years, to design sites for music artists. You can sell your tracks and keep 100% of the profits, and their features are sleek and easy to set up. Also, Bandzoogle has excellent customer support.

Classical Classroom is a podcast that offers a welcoming and simple approach to all things classical. It covers topics such as instrumental music, choral/opera music, film scores, composer biographies and more. The podcast is available through multiple platforms like iTunes, GooglePlay, and the web.

This is an online platform for lesson planning. I have always used a notebook but I am considering shifting to using plan book. Mainly because if there is an unexpected day where there is no class, the teacher can shift all of the classes over one day.

Audacity is a free online, cross platform program that can be used for editing and recording. Educators can use this program to work with students on composition and sound recording technology. Also, educators can make good use of this program for preparing materials for the classroom It is easy to use and fun!

Free, downloadable software that can be used to edit and remix recordings.

Make your own songs in the online studio app and publish them on the audiotool platform and listen to free music produced by the audiotool artists.

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.

Create, play and share fun learning games for any subject, for all ages, for free!

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.