Digital Musicking

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

National Association for Music Education for music educators. 

Podcasts for every music educators. 

Music K-8 is a popular site among elementary/middle school classroom music teachers. The popular magazine is full of great ideas, music, games, articles, and musical performance programs. A very useful aspect of the website is the "Idea Bank" which is located in the Resources tab. Subscribing to the idea bank list allows music teachers to instantly interact, discuss, and share with colleagues across the nation. The diverse wealth of resources available here are sure to be helpful in every kindergarten through 8th grade music class.

This is a document from an OMEA clinic from February 6, 2014 that was given by Dr. William Bauer. The document describes TPACK as well as links to Music Learning Activity Types; Digital Musicking and K-12 music learning activity types. This is a good resource for uncovering other pertinent links for resources relevant to our Technology Assisted Music Learning class. 

On demand Opera!  Do you wish your students could see "Madame Butterfly," "La Traviata," or "The Magic Flute?"  Guess what?  You can show them now!

If you have the chance to take your students to this place, do it!  So many of the best artists in the US got their start here!

All schools need to embrace world music as a means of stopping racism and prejudice!  Also, world music is super fun to teach!

Beethoven is my favorite composer and this site has many great resources as well as many links to other great resources (see the "links" tab).

8notes.com provides an incredible variety of free and subscription based printable music for instrumentalists and vocalists. The site categorizes the music by instrument, composer, level of difficulty, etc. This is a great resource to share with students who are looking for solo or ensemble repertoire ideas, in addition to rock/pop, jazz, and world music selections for personal enrichment and entertainment purposes. 

Mainly Piano Resources but good ideas.

A new music notion software review which is available for Mac and Windows. ScoreCloud could seemingly be of interest to anyone looking to enhance their line of music technology assisted learning or for your own music technology needs.

Main Website for Choral Directors Blogs, posts, job search, and forums

Texas Choral Directors Association main website.

This blog describes ways to motivate students to practice. These tips can be helpful for private lessons as well as performing ensembles.

This wiki is dedicated to K-12 music education using music technology.

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.