Webliography Page
National Association for Music Education
http://www.nafme.org/
This site is the most important website for us as Music Educators. It contains everything about the National Standards, professional development, lesson plans, music selection, books, forums, job center, etc.
Virtual Gamelan
http://wrybread.com/gametone/instruments/virtual-gametone/index.shtml
Virtual Gamelan is a great opportunity for both Teachers and students to jump into the Multicultural world of Music.
This website can be used to shows to the students the sound of musical instruments of other culture in a game context that develop their creativity skills.
Incredibox
http://www.incredibox.com
Incredibox is a fun website that help, through its game interface, to show how combine beats, effects and melodies together and compose music.
JamStudio
http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/indexStudio.htm
JamStudio is a very helpful website that can be a “creativity” support for the students during their exploration trip into the musical composition world. The suggested chords and possible modulation help the student to understand the harmonic progression and also to develop their creativity combining the chords in a game prospective.
Good Ear
http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer?chap=0&menu=0
Good Ear is a helpful website that can be use as a virtual tutor from the students for their ear training practice. The clear interface with progressive difficulty levels can be use as a daily ear training warm up at home or in class.
Tone Savvy
https://tonesavvy.com
Tone Savvy is a helpful website that can be use as a virtual tutor from the students for their daily music practice. The different activities showed in the home page, offer to the students different topic options on which they can work at home or in a group class activity.
Music Tech Teacher
http://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm
Music Tech Teacher offer: lesson Samples on many topics, quizzed, piano practice suggestions, and it is very helpful for both student and teacher to find work ideas for lesson plans.
Classics for kids
http://www.classicsforkids.com
This is a great website that offer podcast, listening activities, games. Every week there it offers the opportunity to discover a different composer such as George Bizet, and his/her music and works with also a quiz!
This website is a good opportunity for group activities funny and focused on develop students curiosity.
Mrs. Miracle’s Music Room
http://www.mrsmiraclesmusicroom.com/p/podcasts.html
Mrs. Miracle’s Music Room is a great website for teacher. There are many podcast on activities, songs, Orff and Kodaly methods, that are very helpful and they sometimes referred to outside sources. I’ve found interesting the articles on how manage the class or how to organize assessments because these articles gave to me tips to add to my knowledge bags.
Virtual Musical Instruments
http://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com
Virtual Musical Instruments is a good home practice tutor for instruments. It offers fingerings suggestion, sound example and harmonic suggestion.
You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/?gl=US
You Tube is today one of the principal musical references for all ages. If you need to find song, tutorial, podcast or documentary, you tube is a great resource that can be used to show in class a concept or just to give evidences to our students. It can be also helpful for the students that can find musical tutorial on how to play a song on the piano or on guitar.
You Tube can also be a share-space of class activities such as podcast project.