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	PMEA DISTRICT 8 TECHNOLOGY SESSION Where would you like to go? Games and Activites Tutorials, How-To's, Instrument Trainers Free Compositional Software Free Sheet Music Lesson Plans Theory and Ear Training Technology that works with just ONE computer I would Like a Paper copy of these resources to print and look at Lessons/Projects from Scott that use his favorite technologies At the end of this session, please click this link to take my survey! Retrieved from: http://montclairoak.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/survey-guy.jpg Click on The Link Below to test drive the new audition form. Games/Interactives Back to Top http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm This website offers music quizzes, games & worksheets by Ms. Garrett. Ms. K.Garrett who has been a teacher for 12 years. She is employed at Birmingham, Al at the Central Park School. Her students have been taught & aided by her website in her music technology lab since 1997. www.nyphilkids.org This is the best website for young students for them to learn more about the orchestra. There are links and all sorts of multimedia including games, create your own instruments, biographical information, and lots of excerpts. http://www.electricbluesclub.co.uk/ebcdownloads.html This site contains a list of links to good educational games and downloads. It gives descriptions of the programs, lets you know if they are free or paid, and links you to the download. http://www.happynote.com/music/learn.html This is a good website for students because there are many different ways to learn about music theory. It also uses animals so that it can get the students attention while trying to learn. It also teaches them music theory in non-conventional ways. As a student some kids learn easier by the hands on approach. There are multiple games on this site that you can download. http://musicmoz.org/Computers/Software/Educational/Theory_and_Ear_Training/ This has a list of programs or software you can download and/or buy. IT has links to other websites where you can download/buy programs or software also. There is an explanation of each of the links and what they contain. You can use it for your own knowledge or have the students check it out to suggest programs/software to buy for the school. www.dsokids.com/ Dallas Symphony Orchestra interactive website geared toward kids and teachers. Printable orchestral seating charts (audience too!), composer information, and even a meet the performers section. Every orchestra needs a website like this! Many computer-based activities as well as games. www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/games.shtml This site has a number of extremely fun games that teach skills without the student even knowing it. One skill that should be taught to students is the art of playing in an ensemble. There is a game that uses Asian instruments as a simulator and you can “play” the instrument on the computer keyboard with other instruments providing a steady accompaniment. There is a tutorial in the beginning, and by the end, the student should be able to successfully “play” the instrument in the ensemble while reading the music by numbers. This game is called Gamlelan. http://www.dancedrummer.com/ Great videos of African rhythms played on drum set and other authentic instruments. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity still remains one of my favorite teaching tools, especially for music appreciation class. There are so many things you can do with this recording and editing software! http://tigertown.wikispaces.com/Games This site is really great! It has many templates for games that you can download. Have the students learn the concept, create the games, and then play them with the other students. Cooperative learning at its best! http://musictoolsforpeople.com/Music_Tools/Home.html This site is an awesome Chord progression site. You click on the chord and then click on a different chord to hear how that progression sounds. There is a free download and then you can upgrade to the full version for whatever price YOU want to pay. Tutorials/Trainers Back to Top http://www.pianonanny.com/ Piano Nanny is a good tool to help teach students on almost any level about the piano. It starts with how to find notes on the keyboard and reading music and goes up through playing pieces. This site is a good way for students to be able to study on their own outside of the classroom. A MIDI plug-in is needed to get the full value out of this site. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bunce/ This site would be great for the students. There are handouts put into to note form for a student to read and have a great resource for technology themselves. This site covers everything to do with music technology, it talks about the physics, sound, amplitude, volume control, and how to make it all work as one system. For high school students this would be great to give them for reference in their life if they enjoyed music technology. http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm This is a tutorial site on how to use Audacity. Have your students go here when they don’t know how to use a function of Audacity. They can learn how to do it and peer teach the other students. www.musictheory.net Go into the trainers and utilities section of this site for some excellent instrument trainers! http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/ A great site for guitar and piano chords. Students simply click on the chord they would like to learn and voila, it comes up for them! http://linkwaregraphics.com/music/ This site has tons of flash cards for most of the elements of music. There are handouts and all sorts of great information on here. Don’t get caught up in all of the writing… just look around and you will find what you are looking for. Free Compositional Software Back to Top www.noteflight.com Noteflight® is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear music notation with professional quality, right in your web browser. Work on a score from any computer on the Internet, share it with other users, and embed it in your own pages. Noteflight is free for individual use. www.musescore.org Musescore is a free music composition software that you can download. It is very similar to Finale. It is better than notepad (in my opinion) and is a great alternative to Finale or Sibelius if your school doesn't have the money. Free Sheet Music Back to Top http://cpdl.org/ Good resource for free sheet music (mostly choral, both solo and accompanied) lots of baroque/classical/romantic and folk songs. Pieces can be downloaded and printed and used as supplemental matierial for music history, or performed in the choral classroom. http://imslp.org/wiki/ This is another free sheet music library that has over 48,000 scores on it. Lesson Plans Back to Top www.smithsonianjazz.org April is Jazz Appreciation Month. Why not do a great jazz lesson? This website is awesome. It has interactive media (Ellington biography, for example), jazz excerpts, and links to other jazz-related sites. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/ This is a great site that goes along with the Ken Burns Jazz series. It has biographies, history, and listening examples. It also has a kids section. http://www.lessontutor.com/musicgenhome.html Downloadable lesson plans and printable worksheets. These can be used as supplemental lesson material for general music or to within an ensemble (or homework). Flashcards, composers, interactive activities… a very cool site! www.musiceducationmadness.com/contributions.shtml Suggestions and lesson ideas for general education K-12, winds, percussion, choral, guitar, percussion, piano and general survival tips. http://web2.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm 444 composers are included on this site, with examples of their works and biographical information; there is a library of the most notable musical works, a geographical index, and index of forms and styles, and a musical glossary. http://mysite.verizon.net/gill225/sms/id8.html This is a site with beginning rhythm worksheets. They are good sheets that you can put onto your projector and teach the students beginning rhythm concepts. I use these for chorus as an introduction. www.theweekinrap.com Every Friday Flocabulary comes out with a new Week in Rap. It is a newscast about this week’s top stories across the world. My students look forward to it every Friday! The best part is that you can sign up to receive an email every Friday morning with a link to the site. http://linkwaregraphics.com/music/ This site has tons of flash cards for most of the elements of music. There are handouts and all sorts of great information on here. Don’t get caught up in all of the writing… just look around and you will find what you are looking for. Theory/Ear Training Back to Top http://www.good-ear.com This is a good sight for those who are involved with music in general. It will help with different intervals (up or down) so they will become better sight singers. It also will play different chords and scales and tell major/minor. It goes everywhere from simple to complex a good sight for musicians everywhere. www.musictheory.net The opening page allows you to choose any basic concept of music. IT ranges from the staff/ledger lines to triads and chord doubling. There are also "trainers" and "utilities." Trainers' deals with keys, notes, intervals, etc. The utilities has a chord calculator, staff paper that you can print out, and a matrix generator. I would use this website as a study guide/review and for students who need extra help. http://www.teoria.com This website offers information about any area of music theory that you could ever want to know about. It provides visuals to help students see how the music works, or learn to read music. It also provides sound clips of chord progressions and musical examples, which make the learning process easier when you are talking about chromatic chords or other difficult things to see. It also has a section called questions that offers specific answers to specific questions about certain areas of music theory. There is so much information about music on this website that it's virtually the size of an entire theory text book! www.emusictheory.com This site has drills for ear training and other drill. Very similar to musictheory.net. This site does not need to be downloaded. In addition to student access and drills, however, there is a special teacher subscription. http://www.hrs.hampshire.org.uk/finger/cfinger.html This is an interactive Recorder fingering chart. http://www.musiceducationmadness.com/scale_cruncher.shtml Scales – breaks them down into any mode and has lots of info about all of them http://www.musictheoryminute.com This site is great for a quick music theory bell ringer or something for students to watch when they come into the room. It has dozens of one minute theory lessons and tutorials that cover many theory concepts. http://musictoolsforpeople.com/Music_Tools/Home.html This site is an awesome Chord progression site. You click on the chord and then click on a different chord to hear how that progression sounds. There is a free download and then you can upgrade to the full version for whatever price YOU want to pay. Technology that you can use with just one computer! Back to Top http://www.musictheoryminute.com This site is great for a quick music theory bell ringer or something for students to watch when they come into the room. It has dozens of one minute theory lessons and tutorials that cover many theory concepts. www.musictheory.net The opening page allows you to choose any basic concept of music. IT ranges from the staff/ledger lines to triads and chord doubling. There are also "trainers" and "utilities." Trainers' deals with keys, notes, intervals, etc. The utilities has a chord calculator, staff paper that you can print out, and a matrix generator. I would use this website as a study guide/review and for students who need extra help. http://www.good-ear.com This is a good sight for those who are involved with music in general. It will help with different intervals (up or down) so they will become better sight singers. It also will play different chords and scales and tell major/minor. It goes everywhere from simple to complex a good sight for musicians everywhere. http://www.hrs.hampshire.org.uk/finger/cfinger.html This is an interactive Recorder fingering chart. http://www.musiceducationmadness.com/scale_cruncher.shtml Scales – breaks them down into any mode and has lots of info about all of them http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/ A great site for guitar and piano chords. Students simply click on the chord they would like to learn and voila, it comes up for them! http://www.dancedrummer.com/ Great videos of African rhythms played on drum set and other authentic instruments. http://tigertown.wikispaces.com/Games This site is really great! It has many templates for games that you can download. Have the students learn the concept, create the games, and then play them with the other students. Cooperative learning at its best! http://linkwaregraphics.com/music/ This site has tons of flash cards for most of the elements of music. There are handouts and all sorts of great information on here. Don’t get caught up in all of the writing… just look around and you will find what you are looking for. www.theweekinrap.com Every Friday Flocabulary comes out with a new Week in Rap. It is a newscast about this week’s top stories across the world. My students look forward to it every Friday! The best part is that you can sign up to receive an email every Friday morning with a link to the site. Lesson Plans By Faust Back to Top My Favorite Programs: One great program that is already on almost ALL Windows computers is Windows Movie Maker. Use this program for any project that uses pictures, video, audio, voice overs, or any combination. The trick to successful implementation with this program is to save all of your files in one folder! Another excellent program that is free for the taking is PhotoStory. Do a Google search for PhotoStory and it is the first one that comes up. This is a super easy program to use! I let my 7th graders explore with it before I even teach them how to use the program. They can almost run this program themselves without any help, and the best part is that there is already music of many genres built in! My all time favorite program is still Audacity. There are so many musical things you can do with that program. See belowfor some ideas! Audacity Ideas Conduct an Interview Play a song that was made popular 'back when' and then play the now popular 'Remake' of that song (See Music Appreciation Page for Examples) Use Audacity to add voice overs to Movie Maker or PhotoStory Create a Mix Tape or a DJ mix of songs for your cheerleaders, dance team, etc.. Create a podcast about ANYTHING! I have had my students do tutorials on instrument care and many how to's Ideas with Musictheory.net Have students go through whatever trainer is appropriate. I usually tell them that they can choose their grade, but they have to get at least 20 correct at 80% accuracy to be done with the assignment. After that they can keep working until they get the percent that is acceptible for them. Print it or do a print screen and email it to me. Have them generate a tone matrix and try to make a song... maybe a Chance Composition based on dice rolls? Noteflight/Musescore Ideas Have them each create a sight singing exercise for the class. They can link it to you in an email and then you can project it onto the screen. The class could come up with a composition in teams and share and modify it as a group. Noteflight works just like Google Docs in that sense Have the class use the Chord Progression program (see above) and come up with a cool chord progression. Have them write a basic melody using chord tones and then modify it using Non-Chord tones. A good way to break into that concept. This Week In Music History (Photostory or Windows Movie Maker Project) Multicultural Project With Rubric (Could use MANY different presentation styles) Do YOU have something to add? Please mention it in my survey and I will post it here!!!