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Music teacher created and relative blog for elementary and secondary levels. Structured around the Orff Schulwerk philosophy, this resource provides musical material categorized and downloadable to suit individual instructional needs. Find resources for action sogs, assessments, holidays, body percussion, seasons, composition, centers, world music, lesson planning, movement and much more!

Interesting blog on music teaching and performance

Henkjan Honing is a professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam. This blog presents articles on the human understanding of music. Some of the articles are in English while others are in German.

This is a blog by Marisa Wren who is an elementary music teacher in a small town in Illinois. She shares interesting articles and resources she has found in her teaching. She also does a Tech Tuesday post that focuses specifically on technology and music.

A blog by music teacher Chris Sepersky that explores interesting ways to use iPads in elementary general music. He specifically focuses on ways to teach composing with iPads, great ideas for general music.

Easily edited to incorporate music, this is a slap vocabulary game to reinforce reading and vocabulary skills. I could use musical terms that we are studying or instruments. I could even show a picture of the instrument and the students have to find the words. I'm excited to try this.

This is a blog by Beth Jahn, an elementary music teacher who wanted to explore more ways to incorporate technology in her classroom. Although it has not been updated in some time, the resources she lists for iDevices are very helpful. She also goes into detail about her lesson plan ideas and how you could use apps with them.

Here is as blog that discuss ways to in corporate music technology in the elementary music classroom. There are various low cost and free apps teachers can download for classroom usage for practice and instruction.

This is a blog by Joanna Sisk-Purvis, a music teacher in North Carolina. She includes several free lesson plans that incorporate iPads and has many app suggestions for music education. A strong focus on recorders and technology for them is also included in her blog.

The purpose of this blog is to provide examples of teaching ideas and lesson plans for k-5 general music classes with worksheets and/or sheet music. The content focuses on rhythmic and melodic structure as well as accompanying lyrics. Historical content associated with the music is included as well as some video and audio recordings.

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Technology Apps for classroom music instruction.

This specific lesson has music for a cups accompaniment for the Nutcracker.  I think it could be used as a first step to composing cups accompaniments for other songs.

This specific lesson has music for a cups accompaniment for the Nutcracker.  I think it could be used as a first step to composing cups accompaniments for other songs.

Very useful blog with some creative ideas for the elementary general music classroom. 

Great blog with a lot of lesson plans and resources for elementary general music classrooms. It also has links to the blogger's pinterest account with more resources.

Band Ed Tool Shed is a blog ran by a band director named Roger Whaley who is aiming to work smarter in his music classroom. He also outlines issues he encounters in his system and how he overcomes them. Great resource for directors to use for ideas on how to adapt to changing conditions and create new resources for their classrooms.

This is a really great blog with some helpful hints for music teachers. From organization, to lesson plans, to unit plans there's lots to be seen on this blog.

Orff-Schulwerk blog written by Eric Young, one of the AOSA Division IV representatives. Great ideas on enhancing your Orff lessons in a whole new way.

Middle School band blog with many great resources. I find the percussion resources to be the most beneficial.

Great information for any music educator using Kodaly in their music classes.

Mrs. Dennis blogs about general music and how she uses technology in her classroom.

This is a great blog for music theory support. I like the video components and the ease of the website.