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Personally, I am not sure how I feel with using a lot of technology within my classroom. One resource I definitely see myself using would be music streaming sources such as spotify/apple music. These different music sites have a whole bunch of different pieces accessible which can be used when teaching different musical ideas while using quality recordings of important classical pieces.
-Ivy Vigil

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I would like to add one more. I learned about this resource at a workshop at Azusa Pacific University. Noteflight is a great way to get students to be creative and give them hands on experience with an easy to use notation program. You can set the guidelines for them to create (for example: you can have a set rhythm of notes, and all they would have to do is place them somewhere on the staff). Another great resource to get the students engaged.

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Noteflight - Online Music Notation Software

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Noteflight is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear professional quality music notation right in your web browser.

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Being a music student in college is a long journey. It takes a lot of time and dedication, but if you are smart and pay attention you can pick up tons of wonderful tips, tid-bits and resources along the way. One resource that really helped me in my first years as a music student struggling with music theory that could be a wonderful resource in a secondary general music classroom was Teoria.com. This is an interactive website that is dedicated to the study and practice of music theory. The site is separated into tutorials, exercises, references and articles that could be used in class to complement other materials.

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Practica Musica by the company Ars Nova is a great tool to facilitate in all things ear training and music theory. It is a music software program which contains hundreds of activities for numerous levels of musician. Beginners to advanced level students can do interval training, learn different scales, do melodic and rhythmic dictation, and so many other things. You can also do activities that incorporate compositional aspects, which allows for your student to have some creativity and free thinking. The computer software is programed to invent or create limitless examples for your student to try, so the activities are always fresh and never gets old or redundant. This tool was great for me when I was a beginner in ear training classes and I love that you can set your own levels and work at your own pace. It logs your hours and your results so it is also easy for a teacher to see what you have completed and what you have not.

Melody Ebner

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Music Tutor is an app available for apple and android devices that helps music students with their note recognition on bass, treble, and alto clefs. This app times your responses and also plays the note as it shows up on the screen and one has the option to answer with solfage or with A-G letters as well as lets one pick flat or sharp signs to add difficulty. I would use this on a screen and let my students identify the notes while recording how long it takes them to recognize the notes.

Victor Viberos

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I am not sure what type of reassures you are asking for. A lot of people seem to be posting electronic resources, but the first thing my mind went to is things that could be used to teach secondary general music on a budget. Things like buckets for drums, rocks, and paper plates and cups to play rhythm games and get students to start inventing their own rhythms and melodies. Also, the radio. Using songs that are popular and relevant to students in the classroom to help keep things interesting. Maybe you could take a survey at the beginning of the year asking students what their favorite song is, and pick songs from the list throughout the year to supplement the concepts that are being learned in class.

-Harmony Butler

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YouTube can be an invaluable resource for teaching about general music concepts.  You can use it as music to be played along with.  There are many very reputable channels that discuss music theory and technology that can be used as an introduction to teach concepts.  There are also endless videos of professional performances from all sorts of genres of music that can be used to introduce students to music performances.
-Charles Mekealian

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This can be a great composing tool for students especially because it is very easy to use with the right guidance. If the classroom is supplied with devices that are compatible with Garage Band they can split up into multiple groups to create a composition. When they are done each group then presents their compositions to the class. I have tried this in a few teaching setting and it is very fun and useful!

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It's an app available for iphone, where sight-reading is made easy for students. There are different levels of rhythmic difficulty that you can select and you can also change the instrument and key that you're playing. It starts off simple with two notes and then gets harder and harder. They even give you the starting pitch in the activities.

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Tone Savvy is a website dedicated to developing the learners ear. There are tons of different activities and resources on the website that help learners with different ear training techniques, including interval, chord, and scale identification. You can choose all kinds of different levels of difficulty and which intervals or chords you are working with in the exercises. There is tons of other good stuff on this website too, including dictation activities. You could use this website in a general music classroom by choosing an activity and having the students take turns working through the questions. This could be a lot of fun for students since it incorporates technology into the lesson, and it's a really great tool to reinforce your aural-skills related course work.

Katie Betts

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Teoria is a website that is meant to help learners study music theory. It is free and comes equipped with a plethora of lessons which specialize in both theory and ear training. This could easily be used in a secondary general music classroom as a means of helping students understand both how music works on a technical level by understanding basic elements such as note-reading, key signatures, scales, and chords, but also helping them develop a more acutely fine-tuned aural conception of how music works. Additionally, the website has a jazz section and the entire site is also offered in Spanish, which could increase accessibility and understanding for some ESL students. One example of an exercise a secondary general music teacher could use is by having certain parameters set for an interval exercise, which is then synthesized into a quiz or game where the students have to read the given note, then recognize and place where the next note would be based on an pre-set interval. The exercise also has a timer and is scored by the platform.

Aaron Keane

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Garage band is a music creating app that comes equipped on apple computers.  The app allows students to use their creative abilities to make their own music.  It automatically changes instruments chosen to the correct key when putting together a piece.
One way this can be utilized in a class is by having the students create their own piece of music.  They will first create a melody on the instruments of their choosing.  They will then add at least 3 accompaniments to the melody to create their own song.  This will help the students how to learn to create their own compositions as well as use digital music tools.

Kailey Chacko

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Music Tutor is an app that you can find in the apple app store that focuses in on notation and being able to recognize notes. It would be a great secondary music resource because it allows you to see where your students are when it comes to note recognition/sight reading. One way you could use this in your classroom is if you have electronic devices in your classroom that the students can use, you can have them get onto the app and take a 5 minute pop quiz where they have notes popping up onto the staff and they have to identify them. You can also adjust the settings on the app to either do treble clef, bass clef, alto clef or even make a combination of any of them.

Elizabeth Villanueva

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Sibelius | First could be a good resource for teachers to use. Sibelius | First offers many of the same tools in a more advanced music notation software, but is much more budget friendly and simple to use, making it perfect for beginners or to use in a classroom setting. This program is free and the user can write for up to four instruments. I think this could be a good resources to help students learn notation or even compose their own simple melodies or songs. Also, this could be used by teachers if they wanted to arrange songs for their students to learn and perform in class.

Carly Walsh

https://www.avid.com/sibelius-first

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This is a resource that I actually use myself! It is a music generator that, even though it doesn't generate hit melodies every time, follows common cadences and makes original passages with every click. You can choose the instrument, the level, the key, the time signature, the tempo, and other details that let the student customize their sight reading experience. I figure that, whatever song we are working on, I can assign the students sight reading factory homework that is specifically tailored to have similarities to the pieces we are currently playing. This will not only get the student more familiar with the style, but also make them quicker and more comfortable with reading in general.

-Zoey Jones (I dont know how to get off the"anonymous" setting...)

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The website BrainPOP.com is a good resource where students can be introduced or review musical concepts discussed in the classroom. There are several sections that focus on making music, music genres, learning music and famous artists and musicians. Within each section, there are subsections where there are quizzes, related readings, and games.
Two ways I would utilize this resource in a future general music classroom is to have students access the website on their own to reinforce concepts and also use the website in class and work on the making music section together and possibly take online quizzes as a class.

Hyrami Godoy

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Not so sharp on finding the beat? We’ll pitch what you need to know about bass, treble, rhythm, and all the do-re-mi!

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It's funny thinking about youtube being a resource, but I would use this because of the following:

1. Youtube is easily accessible!
As humans make technological leaps and advances, the newer generations are easily able to access youtube through smart phone devices, tablets, computers, etc.

2. You can find some great resources like music / teaching styles / interactive videos via (orff, dalcroze, kodaly).
Kodaly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1J94jkbwCY
Dalcroze (Eurythmics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXB67nHnty0
Orff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIg57hqBYqY
Music (Married Life from the Pixar movie "Up"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8hqNOPtao

3. It's fun! Videos can be a great way to keep students engage!
It is important to think about the "fun factor". Lecturing a class about general music can lead the students to hate music. Find innovative ways to use videos and keep them engaged!

HOWEVER...

Some dangers about youtube that must be addressed is that some of the content may be inappropriate for the students. So DO YOUR RESEARCH and make sure you watch the video thoroughly. Find out if the suggestion boxes lead to something you may not want the student to see (for example: even if you found a kids bop version of a song that contain profanity, the original song may show up in the recommendation box).

http://wwww.youtube.com

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I’m not 100% sure, what sort of resources we’re going for here, but I figured one can always benefit from additional class management tools. Here’s a simple system of discipline that helps students take accountability for their actions and behavior. My pal Al, who’s doing his credential year right now, shared this with me. It’s what his master teacher uses in his classroom and I heard it’s pretty effective. I thought this might be appropriate to share here because we all know how middle school students can be such angels...
So basically, the ensemble side of the board there on the left contains magnets with numbers on them. Each person in the class is assigned a number. When a student doesn’t adhere to one of the principles of good classroom behavior (these principles spell out M.U.S.I.C.), they are informed that they didn’t “Make good choices” or they didn’t “Speak when the time is right”, etc., and have to move the magnet with their number on it to that ‘warning box’, we’ll call it. If they continue that behavior, they have to move their magnet down a box and get a “10-minute time of observation” where they are removed from the ensemble, and if another infraction occurs, their magnet gets moved to the lowest box (back to observation + letter sent home to parents). If, however, a student in one of the M.U.S.I.C. warning boxes displays improved behavior, they are commended for their cooperation and are asked to move their magnet back to rejoin the “ensemble” side of the board.

Although this particular board says it’s for an “ensemble” (choir, orchestra, etc.) it can easily be applied to a secondary general music classroom where students should be held to these expectations anyway. Perhaps it isn’t a bad idea, either, to just christen a general music class an ensemble. After all, won’t they, too, be working together to make music in different ways?

-Barb

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I have heard of this resource being presented from past observations as well as from the NAfME subscriptions. This is an application that can be accessed on devices (which helps to implement more technology into classrooms) where teachers can track a students' progress with their practice. Providing a tool for students to engage in a more open assessment in a more private manner, since these assignments can be done in the comfort of the students' home.

Elizabeth Wiedemann

https://www.smartmusic.com/features/

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Mentioned from last semester's class, I recalled an online interactive, easily accessible, and hands-on song maker. This can be utilized in classrooms by having children creating and experimenting with beats and melody which can be seen through a visual representation. Adding onto experimentation, it can help the students to collaborate and be exposed to other concepts of music in a more inviting manner. Such as chords and harmonics available on the website.

Jonathan Lopez

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

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Sample Music Curriculum for Virginia Public Schools

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Sample Music Curriculum for Virginia Public Schools

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This sample music curriculum is very detailed and well thought out. It covers kindergarten through high school. This example provides future teachers with a clear overview of what should/could be accomplished at each grade level. This example could serve as a template for how future teachers may create their own curriculum and might assist in planning out the school year.

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This website is great because not only does it have lessons that go over the basics in a visual way so you can actual see what happens and not just feel like someone is just talking at you but it also has exercises that allow you to apply what you learned. The way I would try to motivate kids to complete the exercises is to assign some sort of point value to each exercise they complete and offer some sort of reward (maybe candy or small extra credit) for reaching a goal number of points. -Jordan Beck wrote this

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Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.

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This resource has many different lesson plans and ideas that align directly to the NAfME standards. You can select different categories for your search too based on what you are teaching. This is a great resource for music teachers starting to lesson plan and looking for different ideas and plans for their classroom.

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Classics for kids is a website/app where students can learn note names through an interactive medium. The program also plays the notes and has students spell out words using note names. The website is limited in only treble and bass clefs but, I still find that it can be an important tool for engaging students and encouraging them with to learn note symbols.
This may also serve as a cross-curricular activity and help with language/writing by incoorperating vocabulary words and opening up the class for discussion of these key terms.

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Something I currently use in all of my classes as a resource for students who have difficulty understanding rhythm or pitch concepts.

There are a variety of ways to change settings on the exercises so that it can meet your needs. I use this a mini class quiz where each student must answer 5 in a row correctly or they can answer in teams to learn note values/pitches/etc. We treat it like a Jeopardy style game. This is more geared towards students who are learning the basics of music if you're doing classroom reading.

C. Au

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Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.

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This resource is from teachers who develop lesson plans and sell them on the internet. Even though NAfME has lesson plans, this is a good alternative since the lesson plans are already tried and tested. It is not just for music education, but any school subject, and especially helpful for substitute teachers who might not have quality lesson plans for whatever subject they're teaching. The search bar is easy to use and you can filter searches by grade level (K-12), non-grade specific lessons, varying subjects, prices, or the resource type (e.g. worksheets, individual lesson plans, activities, projects, etc).

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/

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Although it is primarily geared towards percussionists, the Percussive Arts Society is a fantastic resource for  the general music classroom, because it is almost impossible to discuss music without talking about percussion in some form. The PAS website offers access to numerous articles and resources for educators to share with their students to deepen their understanding of what percussion is and how to teach it. Additionally, scholarships are available for sending students to PASIC, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference,  which can allow students in the general music classroom to engage with music in a way that will enrich their educational experience and potentially inspire them to continue being actively involved in music outside of their classroom.

Memberships are available on an individual or classroom basis: https://www.pas.org/

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I receive a lot of emails from NAfME and most of them prove to have insightful resources that help in gaining new material & keeping student's interests. Many forums and threads are available via our membership that are posted by first year teachers & veterans of music education alike. If I'm ever at a loss for fun, interesting & culturally diverse materials I'd definitely use this feature. It's ok to ask for help when needed & I believe this is a great resource to use.

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Gmail - Music Educator Central Digest for Tuesday September 3, 2019