Katie Wardrobe has put together 15 websites to help teach “Carnival of the Animals”
http://midnightmusic.com.au/index.php/2011/06/15-fantastic-free-carnival-of-the-animals-resources/
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Thanks to Katie Wardrobe, here’s is a list of 19 free iPad apps which can promoted creativity and composition.
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The Gold Coast Arts Centre is launching ACOVirtual – a 3D experience of the Australian Chamber Orchestra for all ages!
Watch the “making of” ACOVirtual HERE
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Go to resource: Adventures in Music with the Recorder was developed in 1997 by Ubisoft. This software is designed to teach children how to play the recorder. Music literacy, rhythm, tempo, melody, and harmony are introduced. The software contains 37 songs and 60 music lessons, with options to download further songs from the Ubisoft website.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Amy Burns blog – a blog of ideas and links from Amy Burns – an American Primary Music teacher
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...ScoreCleaner Notes ($1) = a new app allows you to hum or sing into your device, and it will write up a score … then let you share it over social media. I haven’t tried it yet, but here’s an article about it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/05/06/new-app-allows-anyone-to-create-musicial-scores-by-humming-or-singing-no-instruments-required/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: arts action, published by the Department of Education and Training (NSW) is a CD-rom created to supplement the NSW K-6 Creative Arts Syllabus. It consists of lesson examples, work samples, and units, relating to music, dance, drama, and art.
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ArtsMmad page – after signing in (free) you will have free access to bundles of free Music posters, song sheets and MP3 recordings
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: artsmmadd.com is a site developed by Associate Professor Deirdre Russell-Bowie (UWS) and Dr Christopher Klopper (CSU). ArtsMMADD supports arts teachers, providing an online network to discuss arts teaching. Some of the resources on the site partner the publication “MMADD About the Arts”.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Auralia is a comprehensive ear-training software package, published by Sibelius. It consists of step-by-step lessons, levels, and tests. Answers can be recorded/sung or played using a MIDI keyboard. It is suitable for all ages.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bubble Harp draws bubbles around your fingertips, recording and replaying your movements while creating music. It’s a combination of drawing, animation, music, art, geometry and gaming.
$1.99 at iTunes store for iPad or iPhone
http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/education-apps/apps/78-bubble-harp
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Charanga is a digital learning community for music education – once paid up and subscribed, you have access to digital lesson materials and support.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Classics for Kids is a podcast station that streams classical music suitable for children.
In addition the site has links to composition and creating games, lesson plans, information about classical music, and links to advocacy and articles on classical music for parents and teachers.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Conference notes by Katie Wardrobe (Midnight Music) on Music, technology and education. Includes presentations on Sibelius, Groovy, Audacity, Acid and podcasting.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.ptn.org.au/latest-news/a-free-teaching-resource
A free IWB resource for primary teachers from PTN (Primary Teacher Network)
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HERE you can download Katie Wardrobe’s new e-book – it’s a book about free music resources on the internet. ENJOY!
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jozzbeatinteractive.com/jellymusic-pilot
Jozzbeat is offering FREE access to its new online Music education software (for 5-13 year olds) from February to April 2012. Click on the above link to find out more information. The program suits classroom teachers without ANY musical background, as well as being fun for music specialists. It requires having a digital projector or interactive whiteboard in the classroom, and giving brief feedback after lessons.
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This is a fun way to learn / teach the Music: Count Us In song for 2011 (We’ve Got the Music). In fact, the song will teach itself, all ready for the massed-music-making MCUI event on 1st September, 2011.
If you don’t yet have a free login, and have registered for Music: Count Us In, please send an email to mcui.admin@mca.org.au requesting a Jozzbeat login.
ENJOY!!!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This website offers royalty free sound effects and instrument sounds.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Interactive Whiteboard resource kits from FunMusicCo (suit primary classroom)
http://www.funmusicco.com/index.shtml?gclid=CM6c96fD-a8CFcNMpgod1w4hEw
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A free service (blocked to many students, but usually available to teachers) whereby you can listen to and playlist thousands of songs for free, while you are online.
Download is not possible (nor would it be ethical!).
Not a complete repertoire as yet – for instance you won’t find music of the recent Royal Wedding, or anything from the “Black Arm Band”.
You WILL find many indigenous / Aboriginal artists on GrooveShark: Gurrumul Yunupingu, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, didgeridoo music, “Rough Guide to Australia Aboriginal Music”, Saltwater Band, Yothu Yindi …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Read the article HERE (includes lists of apps and websites).
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Go to resource: Phil Tulga presents a list of interactive activities and lesson plans which combine Music with Science, Language and Maths.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... blog link – a frequently updated blog of ideas on how to use iPad (and other technology) in Music Education
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Moorooka State School is using technology (such as iPads & GarageBand) to inspire composition and music education.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Many of the iPad apps mentioned in THIS list would suit classroom Music teaching for all ages.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A few iPad apps which might contribute to an Orff type lesson (if you have a class set of iPads for Music)
http://wrightstuffmusic.com/2011/06/12/ipad-apps-for-orff-lessons/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Part way down the page of Mustech Wiki you’ll find a long list of resources for Interactive Whiteboards in Music education.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A Jozzbeat percussion chart has appeared using the Music: Count Us In 2012 song.
It’s an online, animated chart (JellyBeans-style) for classes to play percussion with. Great for learning rhythm reading and concepts of arrangement. ENJOY!!
How do you get FREE access? Sign in to Music: Count Us In … then email monica.mpfl@mca.org.au asking for the JellyBeans chart access. ENJOY!!!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Midnight Music and Katie Wardrobe run workshops for teachers who want to integrate computers with Music education. She also offers workshops to students.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... KET – this website provides free Music lesson plans for 5-18 year olds. NOTE: Some of the content requires additional KET resources (videos).
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Wright Stuff Music offers a list of links for fun online music activities (K-12)
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Surf through the tabs of this ‘online binder’ for music teachers:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=312932
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Make Music by TVO Kids is an online game about combining and editing musical instruments.
The game is recommended for primary school students by the FUSE site of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria.
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This iPad app cost about $2, and occupied most of Year 7 music class yesterday. It works through every instrument of the orchestra (by family) with 4 different audio samples for each instrument, alongside factual info.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...m.currach.net/i/mm An app for iPhone and iPod: MelodyMelody is an ear training program which uses a memory grid to match identical phrases. Good for primary school and new musicians.
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http://www.musiccountusin.org.au/remository?func=select&id=45
The 2011 (free) Teaching Kit for “We’ve Got the Music” just went online. It features free lesson ideas and teaching resources for Primary and Middle School classes, as well as brilliant ideas for inclusion and special needs. It is designed for generalist classroom teachers and music teachers alike.
All feedback welcome. Bring on 1st September 2011!!
If you haven’t signed up, please do, then you’ll be able to view the Teaching Kit.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Go to resource: Music Games by Inclusive Technology (UK) is a free downloadable music game aimed at students aged 5 to 8 years. The game explores pitch as produced by standard musical instruments such as the piano.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...a list of social-networking sites and free interactive whiteboard (IWB) resources for music education
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This year’s wiki site for ‘Music Count Us In’ is up and running. So far there are lyrics, scores, mp3’s, a sing-along movie and a karaoke movie. Keep looking because more resources will be added over the next weeks. Just follow this free link:
http://musiccountusin2011.wikispaces.com
Hope you enjoy it, Sally
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...THIS article can also be read in the Music Forum Magazine.
Read article HERE.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...MusicTechTeacher – free lesson plans for Primary Instrumental Music + Technology.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The New York Philharmonic Orchestra Interactive Kid’s Site offers interactive online music games about orchestral instruments, composition, composers, musicians, and conductors.
There are also links to interesting pages with information about orchestral instruments and concepts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... http://australianmusiceducators.ning.com/ is an Australian discussion forum for music educators. It was set up with the intent of discussing ideas on classroom band programs, but it really is a forum for discussion on any aspect of Australian music teaching from P-12. At present there is a small group of members, but I am hoping to build it up and draw on a wide range of professional knowledge and experience.
This group is completely FREE (in a monetary sense, not a moral or metaphysical sense).
Please come along and check it out. The page is run as a ning, which is basically a social network with a particular focus. It is great for online discussion, linking of video and photo and has facility for you to blog. All you need to do is create an account.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... http://www.flashmusicgames.com/
scroll down the screen, then try recording a simple song using the on-screen keyboard
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Try giving groups of students ‘big questions’ or composition tasks or performance challenges (eg. Battle of the Bands) and lots of space to self-direct with access to the internet … and see what they come up with. Some ideas HERE and HERE.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A free resource booklet (online) to accompany “Peter and the Wolf” – a puppet animation of the famous Prokofiev work. The original music was written over 100 years ago to inspire school students to enjoy music!
Online game – match the music themes to their animated characters.
Link to the animated movie website
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LINK HERE – thanks to Midnight Music!
Amy Burns is an experienced elementary music teacher at Farhills Country Day School in New Jersey and the author of Technology Integration in the Elementary Music Classroom
Amy’s writes about her classroom activities and also about the professional development workshops she runs at Elementary Music/Music Technology. She also has a website where she uploads notes from her conference presentations and maintains lists of useful links for Smartboard (interactive whiteboard) resources and more.
Amy has started curating collections of links on the visual sharing site Pinterest [this is something I'm finding very useful too. In the future I'll be writing a post about Pinterest and how you can use it to keep track of resources. You can find me on Pinterest here] and has boards that feature music she has used in her 2011-2012 concerts, iPad apps she uses in her PreK-Grade 3 classes and websites she uses in class.
Allison Friedman is a general music, chorus and band teacher at South Salem Elementary School and she maintains two websites: one contains student work, links and class information and the other is a wiki set up to share her interactive whiteboard resources, links and other files with music teachers.
Units of work for her general music classes can be found on the General Music page (follow the links to each year level). She also has links to the digital media work she has done with students, including podcasts, videos and pictures.
Teacher resources include worksheets and lesson ideas and a long list of Smartboard resources
Karen Garret – from Central Park School in Birmingham Alabama – is well-known for her Music Tech Teacher website containing excellent music games and quizzes. Most of the games were tailor-made my Karen herself, but they are available to use for free from her site. Popular games include Fling The Teacher – a hangman-style quiz game in which correct answers contribute pieces to trebuchet which “flings the teacher” once completed – and Hoop Shoot – a quiz in which a correct answer allows you to try your luck shooting a basketball into a hoop.
In addition, Karen shares an extensive collection of lesson plans, complete with objectives, correlation to national standards and step-by-step instructions. The lesson plan collection can be found here.
I first came across Cherie online while I was researching ideas for using interactive whiteboards in the music classroom. Cherie has contributed a number of resources to the SMART Exchange (the Smartboard file-sharing website). Cherie has her own blog – Just A Little More: Musings about music and technology – where she publishes Smartboard Notebook lesson files (use them as inspiration if you have a different type of IWB), interactive music site links, and iPad resources.
Like Amy Burns, Cherie is using Pinterest to curate her useful links and she has 60 boards that inlaced links for music iPad apps, music education and many more!
Tanya is a Kodaly specialist from Colorado and blogs about her music classroom at Teaching Elementary Music: Tanya’s Blog. Tanya also has a collection of ideas for Kodaly teachers using interactive whiteboards – including videos of students in action – at her other blog: The Kodaly Aspiring Music Classroom.
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THIS link takes you two random uses of YouTube in music-related lessons. If you have suggestions, PLEASE email them to schools.mpfl AT mca.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sometimes Audacity (a free program) can be used to create Karaoke tracks, removing vocals from a pop song.
More information HERE. Thanks for the lead, Katie Wardrobe.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Hands-on learning about instruments of the orchestra, presented by San Francisco Symphony.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Sing Along Midis and Lyrics is a site hosted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Services (USA) and features songs from well-known children’s movies. The midi files have the vocal line played, but not sung, and lyrics are provided for singing along.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Arts Centre Melbourne provides education programs specifically for school students, including performances and workshops.Their school workshops include music technology training and activities are linked with the Victorian curriculum. Their site contains further information about activities and performance events.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Le@rning Federation “manages the national resource pool and infrastructure of digital curriculum resources”.
The federation is run by the Curriculum Corporation, and their site includes links to a number of online and digital arts resources. These are linked to curricula outcomes across the country.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Practical ideas for using computers in the Primary Music classroom. Resources provided by Katie Wardrobe at Midnight Music.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... We’ve got the Music & Music: Count Us In online resources are up and going, Jozzbeat-style. They are accessed via this page:
www.jozzbeat.com/MCUI2011/home
Jozzbeat will give each school a free log-in (after the school has registered for Music: Count Us In at www.musiccountusin.org.au)
OR
Existing customers of Jozzbeat that come through as MCUI registrees can just use their existing JozzBeat website password/username to access the resources.
Grab a group of kids, log on, learn the song, add some percussion, and have a fun lesson 
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Here are some amusing (string) clips to share with students of all ages:
(1) I Will Survive (2) Pachelbel’s Canon (3) Titanic by MozART Group & while you’re having fun … (4) Hedwig’s Theme on Wine glasses
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