Virtual Field Trips is a website that takes teachers and students on field trips via the internet. Categories are Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology and Other. As I searched around it looked like several of the field trips use our Sea Monkey as their web site composer of choice. Uen.org is the URL. At the bottom of the page we can click on "contact us" which takes us to a page where we can put in our contact information so they can get back to us. There is an 800 number to call. The website is based in Utah. Uen stands for Utah Education Network partnered with Utah State Office of Education and Higher Ed Utah, which is in Salt Lake City.

Astaweb.com is the American String Teachers Association website. It is run out of Fairfax, VA. Their email address is listed at the bottom of the site. They link to many resources, i.e. how to get great recruitment posters, information about competitions, string teacher jobs or a place to post a job. It looks as if they update it regularly. The most current job posting was July 7

) Paulhami.edublogs.org is a blog site run by Paul Hamilton from the public schools in Vancouver, B.C. He is their assistive(?) technology consultant. He writes about free websites for educators. One that I got stuck on was watch know.org which had something for every discipline. Of course, there were lots of comments from fellow educators who can also add to his list of helpful websites. The latest revision looked like June 20, 2010.

This website has lots of free on-line music theory drills where teachers can make assignments and students sign in to do them. The drills were mostly string player oriented. One was to indicate where on the fingerboard are specific notes. If the computer is off-line teachers can purchase the program for only $12.00.

Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs is a game for 8-10 year olds similar to the AT and T websites game. This one is from http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/privacy_playground/. This website has lots of information about media and digital literacy.

The internetsafetygame http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=1391 is from the AT and T website. It's a game with a villain and a hero. The player is the hero trying to catch the villain doing bad things online in 8 different ways. It's very child friendly.

Through Multicultural Pavilion http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/ I was able to find "African Heritage in Classical Music" http:/www.africlassical.com. It looks like a good website where orchestra students could do research on composers other than white male Europeans, specifically African American composers

This is another video website where you can search probably any how-to-do something. For my students, tuning their violins is always an issue. I found lots of good tutorials on 'wonder how to" to get them started.

handy for looking up performing arts programs (orchestra concerts, operas) to share with students

2. artsalive.ca/en/resources/students.asp from the National Arts Centre in Canada, copyrighted in 2010, Pinchas Zukerman might be the director. He is definitely involved. It is an extremely comprehensive site dealing with music, dance, English theater and French theater. Students can watch interviews, research composers, listen to music and lots more.

3. Classicsforkids.com is from the Cincinnati public radio. Students can listen to radio broadcasts, which they have activity sheets to coincide, for better listening focus. There is a drop down "For Grownups" which has lesson plans and tips and advice. Each month they have a featured composer. There are also games, such as composing. No advertements to speak of. Email address is mail@classicsforkids.com

4. The San Francisco Symphony has a website for kids. Sfskids.org/templates/musicLabF.asp?pageid=1. Categories to use are instruments of the orchestra, music lab and what's up at the symphony. It's a great way for them to get kids excited to listen to classical music and go to concerts. The email address is webmaster@sfskids.org