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Garageband Ideas for the Music Classroom!

Ways to connect Garageband with classroom instruction that aligns with the National Music Standards.

This is a great site which offers ideas for incorporating GarageBand into the school music curriculum. The author provides a list of activities for students to complete.

This community website is for children to share songs, build communities themselves, and create ideas with other children which will allow growth as a students and music lover. The purpose of this site is to give adults and students feedback on events happening, gatherings of music lovers, and to give insight into the quality of music. This site includes children's links to other websites such as Kids Music Connection and Children's Radio List. It also articles that include songs to sing, literacy learning, and events that take place within different regions of the United States.

Technology in Music Education is a blog dedicated to musicians, educators, and researchers sharing multiple ways in which technology is used to enhances music education.

Blog dealing with technology integration in music education

Great information on use of Apple Technology in BCO classrooms

MOOCs are online courses, many from top universities, some of them include a completion certificate or the equivalent. How to play the guitar is offered by UC Berkley. Other music classes are listed here, too.

Squeak and Blat is a column that focuses on using technology with music. This website lists all of their past postings.

This website contains thousands of links to Smart Board games and activities for the music classroom. Some of the resources listed are free others can be used on a free trial based subscription or subscriptions are very low cost. 

Great website that shows how to playback/record songs on iOS  GarageBand. There are videos that demonstrate how to make the songs that are listed in varying degrees of difficulty (from easy, intermediate to difficult). This is a good resource for students to learn how to create songs on iOS GarageBand. 

This website lists several resources for songs and sheet music, music history, Orff resources, music theory, and music projects for students in the general music classroom.

Great website that describes apps for different educational subjects. Additionally, the website has links for how to use apps for teaching. The website is easily maneuverable and is organized by genre and each app lists the cost, description as well as the iOS platform. Excellent website for educators learning about using iOS in their classrooms. 

This site provides links helpful to band, chorus, orchestra, and general music teachers. The recommended sites have been researched and are of legitimate use for educators and musicians. The sites listed include professional organizations, academic music education resources, blogs, discussion forums, and  app/software reviews.

Music K-8 is a popular site among elementary/middle school classroom music teachers. The popular magazine is full of great ideas, music, games, articles, and musical performance programs. A very useful aspect of the website is the "Idea Bank" which is located in the Resources tab. Subscribing to the idea bank list allows music teachers to instantly interact, discuss, and share with colleagues across the nation. The diverse wealth of resources available here are sure to be helpful in every kindergarten through 8th grade music class.

Vocab List of singing terms

Vocab list for singers.

A quick helpful list of music terminology when wanting to speak properly about vocal music.

This is a resource that I use often to solve pedagogy  problems in either my students playing ability or even in my teaching approach. There are different categories listed at the top as well as menus for within those categories that provide teachers with solutions to teaching situations or problems. 

Choralnet is a site that contains a forum page, resources, directories and news from the choir community. 

All things Choral

A site for all things choral. Also find used music for sale, job listings, concerts, discussions...

The purpose of this resource is to provide examples of music curriculum that is based on creativity through technology integration in the classroom. The website lists and provides several examples of music courses designed to engage the non-traditional music student through technology.

Music education resource for grade k-5. Free lessons, assessments, worksheets. Site includes interactive audio, video and sheet music. One can search by skills and concepts, genres, instruments, and national standards.

Tonal Energy provides individualized instruction and videos for band and orchestra students. Each instrument is listed and linked to a fingering chart, exercises, scales, instrument care, and videos of professional artists. The website also has a place for discussion between other musicians, teachers, and students. One of the best items about Tonal Energy is the tuner App. The TE Tuner provides a visual representation beyond the original needle and shows the students proper intonation through a smiley face and colored circles.

Admittedly, I'm a total geek for the "old classics", but I find this website absolutely amazing! In about 3 minutes time I was able to locate about a half dozen pieces that I've been looking for at some point or another since I started teaching. I think there are resources that every band director could use here.

Public Domain town band music library. Would be great for so many things - especially playing marches at MPA that aren't overdone.

This is another invaluable resource of Public Domain compositions for the Band World. So many of the old marches and waltzes are out of print and difficult to come by, but this website has an extensive list of great works that are all public domain. A great resource not only for finding pieces to play, but also for doing some traditional score study.