Music Learning Today - 2nd Edition

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.

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

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!

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

Useful and mostly free teaching materials and other resources for:school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, future string teachers and college methods classes, string players of all ages for self-study.

An online facsimile of a theremin.

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available.With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Art...

The web's only voice-powered teleprompter. Drop in a script and it automatically scrolls as you speak.

A comprehensive website about all aspects of instructional design including models of instructional design, learning theories, learning domains, learning concepts, assessment, and more.

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

Tools for understanding the process of planning and building projects.

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

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.

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

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.

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.

Royalty free clip art and images.

The U.S. National Gallery of Art hosts more than 25,000 images of famous and not-so-famous works of art. Nearly all of the images can be downloaded and re-used for free. NGA Images also allows you to register and create online collections of images. The collections are called lightboxes.

"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."

Before I jump into this week’s tip of the week I want to point two online professional learning opportunities coming up later this week. On Wednesday I’m hosting Ten Search Strateg…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

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.

smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static art history textbook. The combination of video lessons, text articles, and audio lessons about eras and themes in art history is what makes Smarthistory a valuable resource.

This modest but interesting site traces the history of rock music by decade, from its roots in the African American Rhythm and Blues to the grunge craze of the 1990s. Along the way, readers can glean interesting tidbits (did you know that the term “rock and roll” was coined by Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed?) from well-constructed essays, and view classic photos of rockers across the generations.

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

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.

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