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This is a great site for teaching trumpet from beginning to advanced.

This is a blog by Marisa Wren who is an elementary music teacher in a small town in Illinois. She shares interesting articles and resources she has found in her teaching. She also does a Tech Tuesday post that focuses specifically on technology and music.

A blog by music teacher Chris Sepersky that explores interesting ways to use iPads in elementary general music. He specifically focuses on ways to teach composing with iPads, great ideas for general music.

This site contains profiles of teachers and schools that incorporate technology into the music classroom.  There are lots of great ideas and links to teacher websites that include strategies and techniques to teaching technology in the music classroom.

The purpose of this bookmark is to view the NTM School Profiles and see what I can do to incorporate what others are doing. This website deals with the other 80%.

The purpose of this bookmark is to view the NTM School Profiles and see what I can do to incorporate what others are doing. This website deals with the other 80%.

An interesting article about the pros and cons to using music technology to teach composition, including interesting angle the article covers that I hadn't considered is the importance of manuscript hand-writing.

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 website is a tool to advocate music education and technology to a widespread group of people, and allow readers to write feedback on the website. As well as the feedback, this site is for the general musician audience to search for resources that will help with teaching in schools and responding to young musicians. This website includes articles about music technology and its benefits and uses, posts about music education, the advocacy of music and its importance to all students, and general posts about things such as copyright laws, orchestra and its instruments, apps for music, and planning education tools for teachers.

The purpose of this blog is to provide examples of teaching ideas and lesson plans for k-5 general music classes with worksheets and/or sheet music. The content focuses on rhythmic and melodic structure as well as accompanying lyrics. Historical content associated with the music is included as well as some video and audio recordings.

digital musicking diigo group

A fun way to test your music theory knowledge. The website has great videos for teaching the basics of music theory notation. The app itself is simple to use and easy to understand. As a vocalist I especially like the ear-training section.

Locate smart board resources to use in the music classroom through this website.

This is a website that offers many resources for teaching a variety of music activities.  Click on the links and it takes you to other resources to discover!  

Tim Topham's blog includes tips for motivating private piano students, integrating technology into music teaching and general lesson advice.

Standards of Learning for the state that I teach in.  My county's curriculum content is based on the SOLs.  

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. 

Great site for anyone looking for neat kid songs for sponge excercises or teaching the elements of music! The downloads to the music are free!

This is a great resource for teaching AP Music theory. It contains harmonic and melodic dictation and listening exercises, and contextual listening. Unfortunately, it is no longer completely free.

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.

This website is a great source for teaching about music, opera and could even integrate literature with story line, characters, setting, etc.

Music Education and Technology Blog created by music teacher Samuel Wright. The purpose of this resource is to share students' projects, apps reviews, iBook's, web lessons, compositions, arrangements, music videos and podcast among other resources used by Wright in his teaching.

Folk Song Collection that may be used to help find songs for teaching almost any musical concept. Primary and Secondary Sources with authentic notation and referenced material.

The purpose of this website is to provide music educators with video blogs on software, apps, teaching ideas, and useful strategies that can improve instruction. The content is in the form of video/audio and/or power point presentations. It is created by a network of music educators who have used the material before and are describing the benefits and/or problems they have had with it.

Robin's video blogs are a great resource for teachers. She demonstrates and reviews ways that technology can be used in the music classroom. You can subscribe to her weekly videos, which are both fun and informative.

A music teaching site/blog by Robin Giebelhausen