Kahoot is a platform that creates interactive quizzes for students to use with a smartphone and digital whiteboard. This app allows users to design quiz content and use it to 'gamify' their classroom.
This blog explores ways to integrate the iPad and its applications into the daily classroom teaching of band directors. The blogger offers reviews of applications and suggestions on how to use apps in an ensemble setting.
Arts Education Partnership is an advocacy organization that allows users to understand current policies regarding arts education at the state and national levels. The website also provides links to resources for learning about current arts education research and advocacy.
TI:ME is a wonderful resource to learn about how to implement technology into music teaching and learning. Users can browse blogs, new stories, and articles that demonstrate technology's use in the music classroom.
The American Composers Forum BandQuest program brings some of the best living composers together to write music for school wind bands. Many works in the series incorporate a cross curricular element that connects to disciplines outside of music.
The Center for Music Learning was established by the University of Texas at Austin as an online collective of information that is useful for music educators from a variety of disciplines. Users can find useful pedagogical information, access research, and connect with other educators across multiple disciplines in music.
Kahn Academy provides free online instruction in a wide array of domains. Their music section contains information on basic music reading and terminology, examinations of orchestral works by Gerard Schwartz (former music director of the Seattle Symphony), and and introduction to the instruments of the orchestra.
The National Band Association is a great resource for information about band literature of all grade levels and. Members have access to the NBA Recommend Repertoire Lists (Concert Literature & Marches), the NBA Journal, and a mentor program for young teachers.
The National Band Association is a great resource for information about band literature of all grade levels and. Members have access to the NBA Recommend Repertoire Lists (Concert Literature & Marches), the NBA Journal, and a mentor program for young teachers.