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Ted Talks are an extremely engaging way to provide students with additional information relating to music, performance, or any other topic you might decide to discuss with your students. Lectures on brain function, social issues, and music are all part of this fantastic collection.

The purpose of this sire is to provide access to leading and cutting edge conference speeches, educational talks and interviews that motivate, inspire and inform. These "talks" are all gathered in one place to access and explore and have a wide variety of interest for the music teacher. These talks often pose and answer questions about education, contemporary research and the like that will aid in growth and understanding in our profession and perhaps, in effect, better student achievement.

(a) The purpose of the resource is to teach music theory in a sequential, visual way. It can be used from elementary age students to college level students. (b) The specific musical content addressed in this resource is reading and understanding standardized notation, rhythmic reading, scales, key signature, intervals,  and chord progressions (diatonic, neopolitan) (c) I would use this technology for instructional use in the classroom. 

This website is a great resource for music theory lessons. Works well on white board but even better with a smart board and involving student interaction. Starts with the staff and goes all the way through analysis.

Musicyheory .net is a good start for my students because in my program we rarely have time to go over any type of music theory. This online music resource starts individuals from learning about the staff all the way to understanding how to analyze a composition or arrangement.

Similar to text messages, push notifications are great for sending parents and students timely and relevant information, whether their app is running in the background or inactive. Push notifications are free for both student and teacher.

This is a great blog that supplies tips and resources for all forms of music education. It also supplies a category list to filter the blogs based on what you are looking for. This will be a great blog to check back and see what new ideas and resources have been posted. 

This blog offers a variety of resources for teachers to use to include blank sheet music, software information and reviews.

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

This is a great listening resource to use with our students. It includes playlists and collections of recordings, historical and biographical information on composers and classical music, and midi recordings of sheet music.

This is a subscription-based website (free to join) that contains over 30,000 classical music files by various composers in MIDI, MP3, or WMA streaming file formats. You can download up to 5 songs per day, and it also contains biographies and historical timelines.

A companion website to HyperHistory Online, this website contains recordings of classical pieces that can be easily accessed. It can be searched by time period or composer. A handy resource if covering a music history unit.