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This is a great site to help students practice sight reading. There are many sight reading examples and the program is very user friendly and helps engage the kids.

a) The purpose of the resource is to have provide practice sight reading in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers sight reading (c) I would use this site for instructional use in the classroom and outside of the classroom.

Sightreading website that works!

This is a great site for teaching trumpet from beginning to advanced.

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.

I work with a number of adult beginners and this will be great for them

Is it better to practice the same small section until perfected before moving on to the next? Or is it better to vary the order of items practiced?

There are interactive lessons that would be great for centers work or to engage students in learning more about a specific music theory concept. It could be useful if students are working in with a music notation software, for instance, and forget a concept.

An easy-to-use and simple online music theory instructional website. The site would be best suited for supplemental material for students to review after having been taught the information through a teacher.

Music curriculum and interactive lessons in music theory. Appropriate for ages 6-12. Website is also equipped with music theory games and worksheets.

The purpose of this website is to provide music educators with video blogs on software, apps, teaching ideas, and useful strategies that can improve instruction. The content is in the form of video/audio and/or power point presentations. It is created by a network of music educators who have used the material before and are describing the benefits and/or problems they have had with it.

Robin's video blogs are a great resource for teachers. She demonstrates and reviews ways that technology can be used in the music classroom. You can subscribe to her weekly videos, which are both fun and informative.

A music teaching site/blog by Robin Giebelhausen

This is an interesting read that was linked on Dr. Bauer's resources discussing the connections of arts and common core standards.

This informative Edutopia article by blogger and professor Karin Nolan encourages educators about the simplicity about integrating their current teaching approach and curriculum structure with a standards-based curriculum. You do not have be a musician to satisfy the standards either.

This is a great article for the classroom teacher who is looking arts integrated lessons.

This article discusses possible uses for PBL in the music classroom.

Provided by Holy Names University in conjunction with their Kodály Center, "American Folk Song Collection" is a valuable resource for music teachers, parents, choral conductors and composers.Exploring the collection of repertoire allows a music teacher of any grade level the opportunity to obtain musical scores, lyrics, song analyses and background information. All applicable to constructing curriculum, selecting repertoire for a performance ensemble or building a personal database of favorite songs. Recordings provided by the Library of Congress and other resources and short films on the history and work of Zoltán Kodály, make this a strong resource for instructional planning and classroom implementation.

HNU is a site in which students, teachers, parents could utilize to find songs, lyrics, scores, song analysis, background information, and deeper insight into the works and methodologies of Zoltan Kodaly.

This site has aided teachers by developing many educational programs and resources covering, notation, sequencing, instructional software, and digital media. It also gives info about conferences and workshops. You must become a paid member to access the full website.

TIME is a website dedicated to helping educators integrate technology into their classrooms. Though the site is education generic, there are a great number of articles pertaining to music education. TIME and NAfME recently joined forces to present a music and technology session at the NAfME convention this year, dedicated specifically to the music technology space.

Notes on works (not a ton), recordings, some analysis, tie-ins to standards

The purpose of this website is to provide insightful and practical lessons and resources for the private instructor of the Bassoon. 

This website provides lessons, exercises, and other tools pertaining to music theory. The exercises are especially useful for students to practice their music theory outside of the classroom/studio.

To teach music theory to the beginner or advanced students.  This could be used to teach beginners how to read music or advanced students to work on ear training or even identifying chords.  Very useful when teaching music theory and want to reinforce skills.

Basic music symbols, concepts and theory for persons on the go. ufmue

A collection of music education software, as well as furniture, equipment, recording software and other special features.  Books and percussion are also included.

21st century skills map

Meeting of practice goals more important than just measuring time spent

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. Learn more about UDL

Viola Online is a website devoted to the viola. It includes information about viola basics, such as how to set up the viola and start playing the viola, viola fingering charts, viola care, viola practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the viola and exercises specifically for the viola. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. It is a similar structure to Violin Online, with slight variations in what is offered for the instrument.