These rules are aimed mostly at pre-teens. It is now very common, and generally safe, for teens and even older pre-teens to upload pictures and information about themselves on social networking sites, however caution is still necessary to make sure that posts, images and videos are appropriate.

Free Internet Safety for Kids Tutorial - Practicing safety is a must with anyone who goes online, but with kids it is especially important. This tutorial will discuss the threats your kids may encounter while online and show you how protect them and talk to them about being safe and responsible. There are lessons, tutorials, and many interactive ideas for internet safety and children.

This is a website that has many children's songs translated into many languages. It would be fun to use during a multicultural music study. It also has english translations, so it could be useful to do the same song in several languages as well.

A PDF document that goes into detail on 7 important things to know about a flipped classroom. The document gives a scenario of a student taking a gardening class in the flipped style. They go into detail on the following areas. 1. What is it? (definition) 2. How does it work? 3. Who is doing it? (using the flipped model) 4. Why is it significant? 5. What are the downsides? 6. Where is it going? 7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?

A website with a pros and cons list of the Flipped Classroom. It is displayed in pictures and graphics. After the pros and cons list the websites author went through and dissected all of the cons, in a kind of mocking way. So, the website is pro-flipped classroom. But, I did like the way the information and facts were visually displayed.

A Stanford student enrolled in a online version of a class and posted a blog about his dislike of the course. He would rather have live classroom lectures, felt as though he wasn't being challenged, and thought that if all classes turn to this that their tuition should be lowered. There were several rebuttals to this blog post in favor of flipped classroom and talking of professors that offered a mixed live and video classroom.

Students can use this fun interactive recorder fingering chart to learn how to play notes correctly on the soprano recorder. The image of the recorder shows the correct fingering, along with playing the note. It also has a corresponding audio recordings for students to play along with. There are many photos for students to look at fingerings.

This website is so much fun! This website allows students to create their own acapella group. It has characters for each part of the group and allows students to change the sounds, beats, melodies, and chorus. It is so much fun, and allows students to create music at home!

I found this website through kidsites.com. This website has many video tutorials about how to learn how to play guitar. The videos start as basic as how to hold the guitar, all the way through ear training and music theory. It appears to be a free website. There is also a piano lessons section and drum lesson section that I have no explored completely.

This is a website through the San Francisco Symphony for kids. There is an entire section for instrument families, a tempo game, and some note name reviewing games. I like the way it introduces instrument families and the sound clips available for each instrument of the orchestra. I also like the way it shows an orchestral seating chart for older students.

I LOVE that students can read books on this site! I think it is great that they can read for free at home. I love the way the site is easily navigated and how appealing the site is to kids and adults. It is a great site for students to practice skills at home and it makes it fun for them.

This website is for teachers to link with other teachers. There are forums, blogs, and many other resources. There are many options for teachers to use, as well as many links to other informational and educational websites. I did notice a few pop up ads while browsing through the site, so I see that as a downfall.

DSO Kids is a great resource for students to continue their music education at home, as well as for teachers to utilize in the classroom. There is access to music for at home listening, games for students, and composer information. They also have great lesson plans to go along with classical pieces of music for teachers to use in their classroom.

The New York Philharmonic Kids Zone website is a great resource for elementary music teachers. It has a great section where students can learn all about instrument families, hear the instruments played, and watch videos of the instruments. There are other music games that have to do with note reading and other music areas.

I found this website through Internet4Classrooms. Classics for Kids is a great resource for the elementary music teacher. There are composer biographies, games, easy access to classical music and it is all very student and teacher friendly.

I like the way that this site is laid out. And I really enjoyed the resources available for teachers and students. One aspect that I liked is the worksheet generator. I am always looking for easy ways to create fun worksheets based on musicians and music terms.