Digital Musicking

On and off the Podium is a blog centered website focusing on both administrative resources and classroom pedagogical concepts. The purpose of the website is to share ideas and concepts that the author has used in her classroom. There is a wealth of information available specifically on recruitment for middle school performing arts teachers (band, orchestra, and choir). Visitors have access to materials that the author has shared that coincide with the blogs on the website. There is also a list of recommended websites that the author recommends for visitors to check out associated with music education.

Chris Grifa Music is a blog centered website focusing on band pedagogy with an emphasis on individual and ensemble fundamentals. The purpose of the website is to share ideas and concepts that the author has used in his classroom. Multimedia is available to reinforce concepts talked about in the various blog posts. Resources and other websites are also shared for visitors to explore pertaining to music education.

Rubistar is a rubric maker that is free to use. If you sign up then you can save your rubrics, otherwise they will disappear after you leave the website. There are many templates available to use or alter, including different music templates for playing tests or concert critiques. You can download them to save or print right away.

The Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance initiative was started in Wisconsin and aims to help teachers with a planning method. There are lesson plans available. This method aims to help teachers plan to teach a whole piece using all the aspects of music learning and teaching.

This website is a music game for note names, fingerings, and music theory terms. Students are timed on how long it takes them to complete the game and they can try to be the top score. You can't limit the pitches, so this works for students who have been playing for more than a year.

David Row's blog is a great resource for music educators! He provides many resources and personal experiences as well as a compiled list of blogs of many music educators across the country.

This book looks at a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the connections between music and children. The book discusses developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives including play, games, creativity, and movement. The book also explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, by looking at multiple domains that the child can benefit from with music (social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and linguistic).

This is the Nazareth College Department of Music homepage. From here, one can access all of the undergraduate and graduate degree program offerings, see the schedule of concert and events for performing ensembles and the various community events and partnerships in the Rochester area.

Defending music and saying that "it helps with test scores" or "makes you do better in other classes" doesn't help our cause or profession. Music is universal. Music connects us with others.

This article from NAMM looks at how children benefit from music education in schools. Included in this article are reasons to encourage and promote music education from the educational, cognitive, and social standpoint.

Everything you need to know to create incredible Garageband projects on Mac and iOS, without boring you to tears with a ton of  hard to understand technical jargon.

The Garageband Guide is a great resource for everything Garageband! It is simple and easy to understand. The Garageband Guide eliminates the technical jargon. This website provides easy to follow tutorials and resources to use to further understand all of the capabilities of Garageband.

Garageband Training, Classes, and Tutorials from Lynda.com. From these resources, you can learn how to record songs, use loops, create beats, create and publish podcasts and share MP3 files from Garageband. These online classes and tutorials provide step-by-step, easy to follow instructions for beginners.

This article provides alternatives to Garageband. Garageband, exclusively for Apple products, is limited because it cannot be used on other operating systems. This article provides alternatives to Garageband. Some of the alternatives are free or of little cost; others are more costly alternatives.

The Carnegie Hall Corporation provides free resources to music educators. This website has lesson plans, student guides and worksheets, assessments, teaching videos and audio recordings, games and sheet music for the general music classroom. This website is a great resource for music teachers and provides various ways to search and find specific resources to various concepts.

HUGE collection of free loops and samples (you may need to click "Skip Survey" to see the content on the page)

There are literally hundreds of websites that offer free sheet music and a large percentage (not ALL) of the titles are also copyright-free so you can arrange, transpose or transform the original to your heart's content.

A blog on digital game-based learning and gamification in music education. 

This collection includes engraved first editions of manuscripts by Johannes Sebastian Bach; an autographed letter from Ludwig van Beethoven; a copy of Beethoven's 9th Symphony - with his own annotations - that may have been used in the symphony's very first performance; and a signed holograph by Claude Debussy. Visitors to this website can search for manuscripts by composer. In addition to the luminaries mentioned above, this collection contains manuscripts by Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Wagner, and more. Each manuscript is accompanied with complete bibliographic information.

Flash assignments in front of your smartphone, tablet, webcam or document camera. Grades instantly populate onto your computer and can be transferred into your electronic grade book with one keystroke.

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file. All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available. With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

I have been using the Twisted Wave app for music editing for over a year now and have found it to be very user friendly and a wonderful resource.