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Interactive handout/companion website for ILMEA Summer Learning Series session. Description of session follows: Having a quality website that can help you extend the reach of your teaching is easier than ever! In this session, you will explore some of the tips and tools for creating a powerful website that will act as a hub of learning in your classroom. While you create or work on your own class website, you will be introduced to concepts of Blended/Flipped learning, TPACK, and other techie buzz words that can really open up learning in new ways for your students. You will learn how to select and create tutorial/lesson videos, assess student learning using tech tools, and explore ways of making your class website into a high-traffic learning space that students will be excited to explore in class and on their own. You will walk away with either a brand new website shell or a new and improved learning space, as well as a slew of tips and tricks for integrating technology into your classroom in easy and useful ways. Please bring a Wifi ready computer.

This website has free guides and tools (for purchase) that assist with repairing a variety of technology. If your hardware breaks, check this and other websites to see if there's a cheap fix.

Graphite aggregates apps, websites, and resources for educators. They include ratings and reviews that are geared toward educators.

This website provides a visualization of processing effects and audio. This is a great way to interact with audio and see how the effects impact the sound.

This website provides short explanations on various aspects of technology and social media.

Noteflight allows you to write music online and embed the music as play along files on your website/blog. The service is free to use and does not require software to create the files (unlike Scorch and SmartMusic).

Websites like this one can be used to explore 8-bit music that was made on the Commodore 64. "The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike. The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors' spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known."

This website sells kits for building your own synthesizers. This could lead to great STEM or STEAM projects in a classroom.

"This session will explore applications of video games inside and outside of the music classroom. We will explore various games, apps, and websites that allow students to engage with music through video games. Experience with video games is not required as the focus is on the unique musical affordances students can experience when engaging with music video games. Please feel free to bring an instrument, laptop, and/or tablet as we will be exploring a wide variety of uses of video games inside and outside of the music classroom."

"This session will explore various uses of technology to augment teaching in a way that is conducive to student-center learning. The focal points of the session will revolve around exploring questions such as: How can we use technology to assess students at an individual level while engaging an entire class of students? How can we find out how to use technology in the classroom? How can we use technology to provide more feedback to students? How can we combine various technologies to do things they weren't designed to do? Experience with technology is not required; however, bringing a laptop, tablet, and/or smart phone will assist with the discussion and experience."

"This session will explore how to find and share resources with other music educators using a variety of social media services and tools. The focal points of this session will involve exploring where to go to find resources, how to bring the resources to you, how to save the resources for future use, and how to share the resources with other music educators. Please feel free to bring a laptop, tablet, and/or smart phone as this session will focus on hands on experience with the various services and tools."

You can use the share function on EverNote to create a note that can be shared with parents or students. This can be used with private students by giving them a private link where you jot down what they are supposed to prepare for next time, how much money is on their balance, or what was discussed during the lesson. It can also be used with larger audiences to communicate homework, upcoming performances etc.. This allows you to update the notes using your phone rather than having to send out an e-mail or posting on a website.

This website allows you to upload sounds onto a profile and embed those sounds/playlists into various web applications. There is also the ability to comment directly on the wave form which allows for specific feedback.

Interactive handout/companion website for ILMEA Summer Learning Series session. Description of session follows: Do you struggle with composing in your classroom and don't seem to know where to start? Do you love composing and need some new ideas? If either is true, this session is for you. In this session, you will be introduced to numerous compositional frameworks and projects to get your students (and yourself) engaging and playing with sound in new and deeply meaningful ways. From tech-based tools to composing with children's literature, from mapping and soundscapes to musical storytelling, in this session, you will explore the joys (and struggles) of composing with your students while also discussing topics like conflict management and assessment. You will walk away with some ready-made projects to try, some pieces that you've composed, and plenty of your own creative compositional ideas.

This webs interface can be used to record and trigger sounds within the web browser. This could be used in place of projects that previously needed Ableton Live's trigger capabilities.

This web interface allows you to practice improvising with a looped pianist simply using your keyboard. This is an excellent interface that anyone can use with a web browser and a keyboard.