This blog is notable for its excellent organization: it's indexed by category, including type of device (iPad, smartphone, SmartBoard), educational use (choral, band, elementary ed, collegiate, private instruction), free online resources, app reviews, and more. It has links to a number of music technology sites, and includes inspirational quotes as well! It's a handy go-to site for teachers looking for an all-inclusive music tech website.
Teens and tweens are hearing classical music played on video and computer games like World of Warcraft, Legend of Zelda, and Civilization. Looking up these pieces and listening to them in class, discussing why they work in the context of the video game, would be a great way to engage with students!
Wikispaces is a website for creating educational wikis. This would be a great place for teachers to record their music education and music technology lesson ideas!
This online magazine is now available as an app for the iPad and iPhone. It contains technical advice, reviews of recordings, artist profiles, and general coverage of issues relevant to string players.
Musicnotes is a sheet music downloading website that includes classical and popular titles in a variety of arrangements. Many titles can be transposed, allowing teachers to choose keys that fit their students' instruments, ranges and levels of development.
Partifi is a fantastic free, cloud-based website that converts PDF music scores into parts! Very useful for creating customized parts for students and ensembles; especially good for popular piano/vocal scores with no separate voice part available.
This is a groundbreaking trio of apps: NotateMe, which converts handwritten music into printed notation; PhotoScore, which converts PDF scores to notation; and AudioScore, which converst Mp3 and CD tracks to Notation. These apps will allow music teachers to quickly create and arrange music for their music classes and lessons!
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.