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THis website explains how to find out if your work in question is public domain or not.

A word cloud generator can be used to take students responses and show a visual of what descriptors students used when responding. This generator allows you to chance how the text is printed, color format and how many words are shown.

A free software that allows the user to make a groove up to four parts. Once the groove is made it can be shared on the web or the midi can be downloaded and used in other programs.

Hookpad is a DAW program that shows the creator what chord they are using. This program could be used in conjunction with music theory courses to allow students real application of the material learned.

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.

Describes ways that the teacher can incorporate Google Classroom into the large ensemble classroom.

an article that discusses the challenges and benefits of teaching in a rural area. It gives some tips for success for rural music educators.

a short description of Komitas the song collector that inspired Johnnie Vinson's Armenian Rhapsody

a TED talk on how music benefits the brain. This is a well known video but a worthwhile one to have easy access to!

My 6th grade students ask every year if we can play the star spangled banner at the Veteran's day ceremonies. I now have a version that is possible for them to play!

This site has 3 reinforcement games in it for band students. In order to start the games students select their instrument, it then takes them to the appropriate exercise for the students. The reinforcement games are note identification, fingering reinforcement and music terms.

This YouTube channel has videos for early beginning band students. It has tutorials on how to make your first sound as well videos of songs students can learn by ear.

Complete units for music classes that talk of the history behind many aspects of the music industry. Units include music technology as well as music genres and how they started. Lesson plans have links to all necessary handouts, videos and pictures.

This website has multiple packets of popular music for ukulele. Each page has the chord chart on one side and the lyrics with chords on the other side.

We go christmas caroling every year to the nursing home. I use some of these arrangements.

Iowa High School Music Association bulletin. Has all of the regulations for music events in the spring including solo and small ensemble and large group festival.

The link to the program Essential Elements Interactive, a software that allows students to practice with play along tracks at varying tempos with or without melody. Students can record themselves multiple times and submit their favorite to the teacher for evaluation.

As a bassoon player I often have people approach me about how I can play such an impossible instrument and how do I recruit? This article is short but has many good thoughts on how to recruit and have success in starting a double reed student. The main sections is how to garner interest to get students to play the instrument, the personality of a double reed player, and how to help students be successful once they've started playing a double reed. There are very helpful links to reed care also.