Music Learning Today - 2nd Edition

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Designer and developer, Kyle Stetz, created this instrument for creating ascii beats. They might be useful for creating hiphop tracks - based on what you type into the input box. Use student names, school names, teams, projects and other text to create interesting beats.

The Infinite Jukebox may come as somewhat of a revelation. For an introduction, readers may go to the site and click on a few of the popular tunes listed on the homepage. For instance, selecting Superstition by Stevie Wonder kicks off the 1972 hit in the way you've always heard it. But then The Infinite Jukebox takes over, matching beats and rhythmic patterns to create intelligent patterns for where the song can go next. No simple loop here. Instead the song plays for as long as the listener would like, but with seemingly infinite variety. Once users understand the basic principle, they can...

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Tagboard is a whole new way to experience the great content from the social networks you already know and love. Each tagboard is a collection of social media posts [from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others] that share a common hashtag. Tagboards can be embedded on websites, integrated in to mobile apps, and shown on large displays.

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.

A Google Sheets add-on to convert any Google Sheets spreadsheet into a Google Document for improved legibility of lengthy cell text entered manually or through a Google Form submission. Basically, this will make Google Forms submissions readable!

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.

12 million historic copyright-free images. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organization.

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.

"SAMR, a model designed to help educators integrate technology into teaching and learning, was developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D.. The model aims to enable teachers to design, develop, and integrate digital learning experiences that utilize technology to transform learning experiences to lead to high levels of achievement for students."

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!

A FREE online software tool for volunteer management and event planning.

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.

One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE!

With this feature rich open source survey software you can freely develop research questionnaires. The questionnaires must be hosted in your own private web space.