Goodby snow days, hello distance learning opportunities! A private school in New Jersey is making up school day with online education. I would love to see this happen in PA and around the U.S.
This website allows users to create fake facebook profiles. This is a great tool to get students interested in sharing information they have learned about historical figures. This site could be used to share information on composers, choreographers, musicians, etc. There is also a database of profiles of various figures throughout history.
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.
This website is a great introduction to opera for elementary general music class. Students can choose sets, costuming, lighting, and choreography in this simple re-telling of Hansel and Gretel.
After using this website for a graduate level course in American Vernacular Music History, I was really impressed with it's use for educators. Organize music history in a timeline view to allow students to click and learn more on their own.
This website is a source of information for the Alexander Techinique, which has to do with body positioning and the habits people fall into. There are resources specifially for musicians on this site. I am interested in learning more so that I can apply some of these techniques in my choral and general music classrooms.
Morton Subotnick's Creating Music has a variety of music games and activities that would be suited for an elementary curriculum. I would like to use this website as a center in my classroom, to allow students to explore simple music creation and music listening.
The website allows you to create custom games of Jeopardy without needing Powerpoint or similar software. Great for instrument review, music history, or any topic, you create your own game.
This website has profiles for several baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century composers. Each page seems easy to ready, and has video links as well as links to sources.
This website hosts over 9,000 choral/vocal scores, texts, translations and other useful information. This is a fantastic resource for choral directors to browse and select music from.