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This site keeps an up to date feed on all technology useful to music educators. This covers basic applications on mobile devices and even classroom technology such as tuners, metronomes and SmartBoards.

Music tech resource page. Author presented at FMEA 2017 - I attended his session. Mostly about hardward, not software. Ipad focus

This blog is heavily centered around technology. There is a navigation bar on the top and categories on the right to help locate topics of interest.

I have used animations from this website to show my students a visualization of the duration and pitch of notes. Kindergartners were fascinated by these videos, and really enjoyed each one.

"Piano roll" animations of musical works.

This is a great publishing website with music for k-8 general and vocal classrooms along with recorder music. This also has teacher resources with a great bank of teaching ideas.

Music K-8 is an online and magazien subscription that contains valuable resources such as songs, activities, Power Point presentation, videos, etc. Each magazine contains brand-new songs according to each hlidyas of the year. It is a great resource for elementary and middle school general music classes.

This website is all things oboe! Students and teachers can find valuable information about oboe repair, practice, and fingerings.

Resource designed for teachers and parents of oboists who are not strong in oboe. Includes practical resources to help students, repairs, tips for reeds, fingering charts, and more.

This page provides a list of repertoire that is suitable for young bands. Along with the titles, arrangers and publisher, it provides a brief description as well as length of piece. This is a great resource with young bands wanting to play higher level repertoire. 

This PDF list of standard repertoire for intermediate bands includes composer, title, difficulty level, and description about the primary thematic and musical concepts of each piece.

It is a good resource when choosing your middle school concert repertoire.

This website offers many applications to help teach virtually anyone to play piano. These apps use the latest gaming software to help make learning the piano fun.

JoyTunes makes absolutely phenomenal piano learning apps, especially PianoMaestro, which I use with my second graders. They download the app on their iPads, and it guides them through the basics of piano playing, all the way through playing simple songs and melodies. It's definitely worth checking out!

This official website for the Gordon Music Learning Theory provides many core principles and philosophies centered around this theory, professional development opportunities, and accessible links for music teachers to join an area chapter.

This is a fun resource for elementary music teachers to introduce instruments of the orchestra in an interactive way. Students are exposed to the four families of the orchestra and their instruments with a fun adventure-themed story to guide the way.

This is a fun and helpful website for young students to learn about instrumentation and get acclimated to the world of orchestra. Students can find recordings, games, and information on instruments and instrument families

Interactive game based on Benjamin Britten's "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." Students get to interact with the different instruments of the orchestra while learning different facts about the instrument families and working towards a goal of completing the orchestra at the end of the game.

I found this great site while looking for composer biographies for my second graders. This site has a wide range of free printable such as listening maps, word searches, games, and biographies. The information is appropriate for elementary school students.

This website provides browsers with strategies, thoughts, ideas, etc. on incorporating the Dalcroze Eurythmics method into their instructions. Suggested additional resources (books) and professional development opportunities are also listed.

This website offers information about hearing and how to preserve your hearing, which can be a useful lesson for many student musicians.

Pertinent information about ear health as it pertains to listening to audio with headphones and preventing ear loss. Could be a good resource for music teachers who engage in individual listening assignments, helping students to understand the importance of turning the volume down when things get too loud, etc.

Beth's Music Notes is another great blog to follow that includes tons of songs and most free if you join. I like to follow her blog to find new songs to bring to the classroom.

This blog incorporates a multitude of songs and lessons to go with different every day musical concepts. There are lessons and posts regarding rhythmic concepts, melodic concepts, Orff arrangements, and recorder songs. Songs on the website are organized into different categories so they are easy to look through and extra resources are linked to help with sub plans, lesson plans, assessments, and even behavior.

A blog, shop, and resource for music teaching. Primarily offers songs, resources, and games in the Kodaly methodology. Posts and songs are searchable by date, grade, and other criteria. Songs and resources are available for purchase.

This website teaches many music concepts. There is a free trial and then you can decide if you want to purchase it or not.

The MusicLearningCommunity provides teachers, parents, and students with resources that allow them to learn more about music. The site features games and a blog for extra information and learning.

This website provides browsers with a wide array of ear training exercises of varying difficulty levels.

This site is a great program for students to practice ear training. It is a simple interface but will test your ear.

This is a website devoted to this history and performance of Taps. There is information regarding how to properly perform this bugle call. Also, there is information about bugles in general and their role in the military. Great for teaching trumpet players (and really all musicians) about this very well known call.

This site provides a network for buglers. While also a place to find buglers or to sign up for one, there is also articles and comments about Taps.

The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings website is filled with standard-based content from around the globe. There are articles to read, podcasts to listen to, recordings to listen to, artists to research and lesson plans to use in the classroom. The lesson plans are standard-based and well researched. Each lesson is labeled on the world map for easy reference. Lessons have links to playlists, videos and additional resources. There are lesson plans designed for all ages K-12.

These recordings provide students the opportunity to hear music from all over the world and explore the social impact of music on our society. These resources are invaluable as a music teacher.

This is an online site for ear training. It has tests covering intervals, chords, scales, cadences etc.

For teachers who want to help their students improve their ear-training skills, Good-Ear is a great and easy-to-use website that focuses entirely on this topic. This resource has a simple layout and allows its users to train their aural skills on anything from intervals and chords to harmonic progressions. Teachers who are just beginning to introduce this skill to their students can also find use in the beginner level training exercises. Good-Ear is free and can easily be used by not only teachers, but also students who have access to an electronic device and internet source.

This is great tool to develop an ear for music. It has all of the qualities and the features to be able to help the student become a stronger performer. Being able to hear is very important when it comes to music. What I love mostly about this training tool, it strengthens your ability to enhance perfect pitch.

This website is the Chrome Music lab. There are activities to explore all the elements of music. Some of the activities are composition related. There are visual representations of sound as well. You need to use the Chrome browser for them to work. My students really enjoyed this site.

This is a site that helps music teachers teach across the curriculum by connecting music to math, science, and art. These are online experiments that are interactive and have explanations behind the experiments.

Created by Google developers, this site contains various apps associated with different musical elements with the premise that users would simply explore. Songmaker and Kadinsky allow the creation of musical ideas while others explore rhythm chords, and how sound functions. Each app is extremely easy to use and is beneficial in any general music setting.

This is the homepage for Drum Corp International. This can be used for all marching instructors during marching season. It can can also be used to promote what DCI. Students can utilize the website as well for audition information or performance attendance.

I use this for my marching band students so they can access local shows and for audition information.

This site serves as the primary hub of information for anything dealing with drum and bugle corps (competition schedules, show announcements, new developments within the organization, etc.). DCI serves as a model for many competitive marching programs around the world, especially those who participate in the Bands of America circuit. Educators can access short video clips to show students are access posts that can inform the development of their own programs.