This is the home of Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) on the web. Here you can learn about TPACK, explore the TPACK bibliography, access back issues and subscribe to the TPACK newsletter, and locate other resources related to TPACK.
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. MusicBrainz aims to be: The ultimate source of music information by allowing anyone to contribute and releasing the data under open licenses The universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music. Like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz is maintained by a global community of users and we want everyone — including you — to participate and contribute.
This is the online version of the text, A Jazz Improvisation Primer. Here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group.
This is the website of Dr. William I. Bauer. Bauer is Associate Professor of Music Education and Director of the Online Master of Music in Music Education program in the School of Music of the University of Florida. His book is titled Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing and Responding to Music. The book’s companion website is called Digital Musicking. Dr. Bauer is a native of Wadsworth, OH.
Hansel & Gretel Learning about Opera!: An Interactive Education Experience
Hansel and Gretel: Learning about Opera! is an online educational experience featuring Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold.
Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines
Use Dipity to have students build a multimedia, interactive timeline. It could be used for students to develop an historical timeline of some aspect of music or even to document their own musical growth and development over time.
Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.
Jing: Free Software for Screenshots and Screencasts
The always-ready program that allows you to instantly capture images and videos—then share them with anyone. Jing is a great tool for adding basic visual elements to all of your online conversations.
OSFABB is a unique music system for School Bands (small or large) who may have limited instrumentationOn this web site you can find and download music for all Concert Band Instruments. Each part includes Lyrics for Singing. Each song is rated according to skill and experience level. There is a special page for band directors to explain how the OSFABB music system works for your band.
Easily create your own rubrics. Complete rubrics on iPads, tablets or phones. Collect data offline with no internet access. Compute scores automatically. Print rubrics or save as PDF or spreadsheet.
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
QuestBase is a free, cross-platform application that provides everything you need to create and manage your assessments, tests, quizzes and exams, both on-line and printed. Designed as a training and learning tool, QuestBase can also be used for selection tests, psychological tests, satisfaction and opinion surveys, market researches and customer feedback.
A free service for teachers who want to replace paper tests with online testing. It includes an online grade book providing fast analysis of class and individual student progress. Teachers can also share the resources they create.
A free textbook to learn music theory. It aligns with the Practica Musica music theory software. The software, however, isn't necessary to learn from the book. The book includes embedded media.
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. We make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. We offer nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.
Jazz History Online is committed to covering the finest in jazz history past and present. All of the writers are also working jazz musicians, and use their experience to discuss jazz in a manner that is accessible to both musicians and laymen.
ArtScan, a project of the Arts Education Partnership, is a searchable clearinghouse of the latest state policies supporting education in and through the arts from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
TinyLetter is a personal newsletter service brought to you by the people behind MailChimp. People use it to send updates, digests, and dispatches to their fans and friends.
The Arts in Every Classroom Video Library - Video 3 - Teaching Dance
Many teachers would love to incorporate dance into their classrooms. But how? This valuable site from Annenberg Learner answers exactly this question. It features the methods of two very different educators, one from Brooklyn and the other from New Orleans, who have found various ways to integrate dance into their lesson plans. The site is clearly organized, with sections such as People and Schools, which provides biographies of and interviews with the showcased teachers, and Who Should Watch, a brief overview of the target audience. Additionally, educators will want to peruse Activities and...
A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.
Awesome videos of modern, high quality original musical performances reflecting a variety of popular styles and genres. "My goal with Postmodern Jukebox is to get my audience to think of songs not as rigid, ephemeral objects, but like malleable globs of silly putty. Songs can be twisted, shaped, and altered without losing their identities–just as we grow, age, and expire without losing ours–and it is through this exploration that the gap between “high” and “low” art can be bridged most readily."
