Digital Musicking

A great site for music parents, this is a great site to direct parent to or to use as a resource for the instructor himself with many useful links connecting to ways to approach music students, parents, and administrations for both instructional and advocacy scenarios.

A website that helps teachers use their iPad in their music classrooms. It contains resources and advice on apps and software that will benefit the modern music class.

digital musicking diigo group

Great ideas in the implementation of iPads in the music classroom

Perfect resources for staying up-to-date with current news and all things clarinet in the professional clarinet world, with many resources to link to: The Clarinet Journal, free music downloads, research, and ideas related to both clarinet teachers and performers. Check this often!

Article about the difference of school based music and music that students listen to out of the classroom. Music educators need to learn from this difference and use more contemporary music to interest more students.

This is a great article about the disconnect between music we teach in school and the music our students listen to. This discusses ways to help make music meaningful for all students.

This article discusses the "real" issue that classically trained music teachers face in trying to engage students in music; holding classical and/or jazz up as the "legitimate" forms of musical, or recognizing the value of the music that students listen to and enjoy in their daily lives.

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

After reading about this in chapter 5 this week, I want to use this project with my students.  They can create this page for a composer and include pictures, quotes, his/her contemporaries and recordings.

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.

Presentation on how to solve special timing problems on the marching band field

Advice from Bud Herseth on practice habits

The concert band began to come into its own during the Civil War era

This is a great article about how to keep students interest in music through music technology. The article also gives tips for lessons that connects music technology with the National Music Standards.

Article on the use of technology in music ed as related to NAfME standards

Article on the use of technology in music ed as related to NAfME standards

Ideas and instruction for learning to play by ear.

My mentor showed me this website a few years ago. We both use it in our classrooms as a center for our elementary level general music classes.

Article on the need for music education

Excellent resource for rudimental drumming

This website allows you to view music before purchase

Soundation is a really cool program that allows the users to play with loops, midi files, wav files, and even creating your own music. This could be a really great way to get your students to compose their own music through technology!

Soundation is a really cool program that allows the users to play with loops, midi files, wav files, and even creating your own music. This could be a really great way to get your students to compose their own music through technology!

This is a web-based software which is free with the option to upgrade. It is similar to GarageBand, but is great because it doesn't require a specific type of computer to use. To use, one simply drags in the loops and MIDI tracks to create their own songs. The free version has its limitations, but can still create some amazing tracks for the classroom.

With iPads becoming more widespread, the number of music apps available continues to increase. There are many good ear training software packages for Windows/Mac but it is good to see one for iPad.

This would seem to combine the use of vernacular music with guitar instruction. This is something that I will look into for my guitar students.

Resources for the music educator wanting to include technology in their teaching.

Music Technology resources

This organization is devoted to technology for music education. They have conferences, review products, and provide resources for schools and individuals.