Digital Musicking

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.

There are many great band articles that may be viewed in .pdf format. These articles may be saved for later viewing.

This is a great article and video about a popular music class. Students at the University of Nebraska are given the opportunity to take a class that focuses on learning, performing and creating popular music and its benefits.

Concise list of free apps for music educators, broken down into categories (Tuners, Metronomes, Theory, etc.).

This blog provides information specifically related to the use of iPad's and other apple products to enhance the music education experience. The blog author reviews apps in great detail, and often showcase screenshots and step by step instructions/demonstrations for how to use the app and its relation to educational outcomes.

This blog provides information specifically related to the use of iPad's and other apple products to enhance the music education experience. The blog author reviews apps in great detail, and often showcase screenshots and step by step instructions/demonstrations for how to use the app and its relation to educational outcomes.

Here is a helpful music app students can use on their mobile devices. The rhythm calculator can help with counting rhythms in various meters.