Music Learning Today - 2nd Edition

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Splice is a cloud platform for music creation, collaboration, and sharing.

Teachers will be introduced to Google Apps for Education as a resource to enhance collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity with students, colleagues and their school community. Emphasis will be placed on introducing resources that provide best practices when using Google Apps for Education. The course is online and divided into 10 self paced modules. Each module can be completed individually. Staff will demonstrate completion of each module through a Google Form.

This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy! These pages are available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

The strategic use of information technology has the ability to transform teaching and learning helping institutions realize EDUCAUSE’s mission of "transforming education through information technologies." All institutions have made educating learners a critical priority. Technology is a means, not an end, toward that goal. These resources on teaching and learning from EDUCAUSE include the work of EDUCAUSE members as well as material contributed from EDUCAUSE's strategic initiative, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

This is a YouTube channel that provides reviews, demos, and tutorials of many music and sound apps for the iPad and other iOS devices.

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Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. Learn more about UDL

Sound Fundamentals is a complete band method for classroom and individual use. It includes embedded videos demonstrating concepts and exercises.

Pick a year and see what songs were popular.

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The website for the National Core Arts Standards (2014). It includes the standards for music, dance, visual arts, theater, and media arts. Standards are searchable by content area and grade level. Examples of standards-based assessments are included.

Tools for understanding the process of planning and building projects.

An index of images, information about, and recordings of Medieval and Renaissance instruments.

The University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division houses over 400 musical instruments from around the world. Each year since the founding of the Ethnomusicology program in 1962, one or more international artists have been invited to the campus to share their musical traditions through teaching and performance. Includes images, audio, and video.

JAZZRADIO.com is the best jazz music internet radio station.Our mission is to provide the widest selection of music with the fewest interruptions.

Hookpad is a free web app that simplifies songwriting by helping you choose chords that sound good together and guiding you to write a good melody. It's a musical sketchpad with music theory "built-in" to make it easier and more intuitive to find the sound you're looking for.

IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 7686 titles!

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Free service to send text messages to groups of students, parents, etc. Messages can be received as text messages or email.

This compendium of improvisation games is primarily intended for medium sized groups (3-8) of instrumentalists but these activities can easily be adapted to larger and or vocal ensembles.

Fingering charts, recordings, and background information on string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments.

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Resources to understand and utilize the Understanding by Design framework, created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.

Touch is the University of South Florida's iPad Quintet. The group, made up of music education faculty and PhD students from the School of Music, formed shortly after the release of the first iPad.

An online game that allows students to practice note names, fingerings, and musical terms.