Digital Musicking

As a brass player it can sometimes be a challenge to remember woodwind fingerings.  This link can quickly locate them.

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.

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. 

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.

An app for the iPad that provides complete mastering for recordings. This app uses pre and post EQ as well as effects for making recordings sound polished and professional. Great to use for the band classroom when making recordings. 

Blue Microphone website that describes their microphones (Desktop, Portable, USB, Handheld, iOS devices, including the YetiPro. I use the YetiPro and this is website is good for learning about future microphone purchases.

This podcast series is about the role that music plays in the cognitive development of children and its importance in education. 

MagicMusicTutor.com has some really good materials available for free. I have had particular success with the free song arrangements for boomwhackers. There are also tutorial videos, music theory worksheets, virtual instruments, classroom ideas, guitar tutorials, a MIDI song library, and the site admin accepts requests for new materials.

TeacherVision.com is not a music education website exclusively, however, it provides many great resources that music teachers may find interesting or helpful. The site contains printables, graphic organizers, lesson plans, tips on classroom management, and great links to apps and software.

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. 

Jazz lesson for all instruments.

Compiled by the Library of Congress, Music and the Brain is a Podcast that has lectures, conversations and symposia about the connection between neuroscience and music. Kay Redfield Jamison is the project chair compiles scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists and other experts to discuss topics such as: the future of music; music and grief; the mind of the artist and others. There are 20 podcasts and they are all free!

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.

This site provides a myriad of links to several music education resources such as Pedagogy resources, power point presentations, songs, lesson plans, instruments, listening, and assessment resources.

This is a great website for building a WebQuest. In addition, teachers can share, comment on, and build upon each others web quests.  

Podcast for learning about jazz artists, specific albums and genres of jazz. There are currently 269 podcasts that are free and describe many different artists such as: Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Louis Armstrong, BIll Evans, Duke Ellington, plus many, many more. THe podcasts are created by Dr. Gordon Vernick, Associate Professor of Music at Georgia State. This is fantastic resource for students as well as educators. 

Music blogs from music teachers.

This is an itunes preview of Vic Firth Marching Percussion Video Podcasts. Each of these videos are free to view in itunes and many are from drum corps and other percussion professionals. These videos have interviews, lessons and performances. This is a great resource for percussion students for inspiration as well as showing them about DCI. 

Games for children in music