http://www.menc.org/

This is the website that I would have added to the presentation if I was giving it to my colleagues. It is the site for the National Association for Music Education.

I choose Audacity and Mindomo for my Web 2.0 tools. Audacity is a free audio recorder and editor, and Mindomo is a site for creating mind maps.

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Mindomo: http://www.mindomo.com/

Here is an article that encourages teachers to let students have more than one right answer in order to help foster creativity.

http://www.scilearn.com/blog/teaching-creativity-in-the-classroom.php

This is an article on why education needs to change that focuses on 21st century skills in relation to budget cuts and standardized test scores.

http://www.techlearning.com/article/45157