This is an online interactive and informative site. This page focuses on the Holidays Symphony and describes compositional techniques used by Charles Ives. It allows the user to "experiment" with sound.

Separated by grade level*

A short playlist of three videos to demonstrate the sound of the soprano recorder, proper hand position, and the value of practice and patience.

These are short and humorous videos by the folks at Music K-8 that help reinforce a few music concepts. When my younger students have earned a little reward, or when it's flue season and my voice needs a bit of a break, we sometimes take a moment to watch a couple of these concept videos

Plickers are a useful technology tool for quickly gathering data about class preferences and knowledge. These are some ideas for the elementary music class.

I find that a visit to Beth's Notes sometimes helps me organize my thoughts around selecting concepts to teach or practice using traditional folk songs in the elementary general music setting.

Music education tech resources and ideas are listed and categorized by device or software (SMARTBoard, iPads, etc..)

Cross-curricular lesson idea that uses a variety of educational technology tools including GarageBand. There are other similar lessons on this site that also provide and interesting model to consider.

Resources for modern band. Parts are provided for different instruments and links to video and audio recordings are also available. Jam tracks and other practice tools are also available on the Little Kids Rock site

This lesson idea explores some interesting ways of integrating different technologies in order to practice and assess dynamics.