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The purpose of this blog is to provide music educators with useful hints, tips and teaching strategies that can improve instruction. The content features articles on helping educators with problems that they might have encountered with software programs or with problems they are having with their students grasping musical concepts.

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This webpage provides a great visual and aural example of the harmonic series. Utilizing fractions and sound properties, this is a great tool to connect science, math, and musical concepts. Also on the site are programs that can be used to compose and explore with sound bars, directions for creating homemade instruments, and more.

This website is a great place to start if you are interested in learning about Dalcroze, Kodaly, Orff, or Gordon. It includes background on all of these programs and links to their websites.

This is a great site for finding music clip art to use for newsletters, flyers, or emails to parents. This clip art can be used in advertising and for programs like recitals as well.

Use Google search to locate educational programs, tools, tutorials, and testimonials.

Technology in Music Education is a blog dedicated to musicians, educators, and researchers sharing multiple ways in which technology is used to enhances music education.

Blog dealing with technology integration in music education

Great information on use of Apple Technology in BCO classrooms

This article talks about defending music education in the wake of budget cuts in a school district.

This article talks about defending music education in the wake of budget cuts in a school district.

Cloud based program that can be used to set up, monitor and assess home practice

Dallas Symphony Orchestra site offering teacher, student and classroom resources. Play games, learn while playing, discover composers and their famous compositions, take a virtual tour of the Meyerson, get practice tips and more! Lesson plan datapase, educational programs for an integrated and meaningful classroom.

Developed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, this site provides educational programming and resources that support classroom instruction. It's main focus is on music and composers from the Baroque period through the 20th century.

Music for All is one of the more influential national music education organizations that advocates the importance of music education. They have created programs such as Bands of America and Orchestra America. This website is a great tool for educators to find information for promoting music education if ever needs to present to administration or teachers. It provides resources as well as tips on how we can try to achieve music education for all.

Great fundraising ideas for any music program.

Great ideas for writing successful grants for any music program.

The NAMM Foundation website has many great articles about advocacy, building a great program, and various pedagogical resources.

Another document from Dr. William Bauer about making music with an iPad created by Dr. William Bauer for the International Society for Technology in Education on June 24, 2013. A tremendous resource for creating performing, understanding and responding to music with an iPad. Also, there are links for general administrative and productivity apps which are useful for other academic disciplines.  Additionally, there is a lot of information that is useful about hardware and connecting the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad. Great resource for using iPads in the music classroom, which is what is needed for me personally. 

This document comes from a Learning Station Session presented by Dr. William Bauer for the International Society for Technology in Education. The session centered around apps and tools that can be used on the iPad that match the music standards of creating, responding, and performing. The site contains a full list of apps and tools available for the iPad and they help make the iPad a music learning tool. 

Dr. Bauer provides a comprehensive list of programs and apps for the Ipad that can be used in the music classroom. These apps can provide ways to create music and transform the Ipad into an actual musical instrument. Dr. Bauer creates lists separated into apps that will create music, perform music, help with understanding music, ease administration, and other resources. This list cannot only help integrate technology into the classroom, but also show music in a different light.

Introducing "Blues + YOU": play-along tracks available online--free of charge--so musicians can practice with mp3 downloads in a variety of configurations! Tailored to intermediate and advanced players, this unique product will become an invaluable resource for both college and high school jazz programs. The newest recording from The U.S. Army Blues, Something Old, Something New: Yours to Borrow From the Blues has tools to use and tunes to enjoy!

Great website for band programs with limited instrumentation or for small chamber groups with nontraditional instrumentation.  Each band piece can be played as a solo or the full work.  The sheet music provides every instrument with the melody and the part for the band version.  New titles are added frequently!

The Infinite Jukebox may come as somewhat of a revelation. For an introduction, readers may go to the site and click on a few of the popular tunes listed on the homepage. For instance, selecting Superstition by Stevie Wonder kicks off the 1972 hit in the way you've always heard it. But then The Infinite Jukebox takes over, matching beats and rhythmic patterns to create intelligent patterns for where the song can go next. No simple loop here. Instead the song plays for as long as the listener would like, but with seemingly infinite variety. Once users understand the basic principle, they can upload their own MP3s for free and let The Infinite Jukebox reorganize them into epic soundtracks for their working day.

This quirky creation create an infinite musical loop from any song you select - and by infinite I mean never-ending. You can select a track from the site's vast library or upload a song of your own, which the site will analyze and use to create a pattern. This site could be beneficial for use with classical music to make easy background music.

Pretty innovative program that remixes your favorite tunes so that you can listen to them over a long period of time! No need to use the "repeat" button anymore when you like a tune. It is INFINITE!

This is a blog discussing music technology. Different review of programs for music teachers are reviewed. By reading this blog, all music teachers could enhance their knowledge of technology that could be used in their teaching setting.

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.