IWB Music

04/01/2016

Hello friends! I know it has been a long time since I have posted anything to my blog. My wife and I had a beautiful baby girl last year, and I started teaching in a new district to be closer to home and my growing family. Needless to say, I have been quite busy!

My new school district currently has a matching grant opportunity available, and I would love to provide a number of powerful resources for my amazing students. If you have found any of my IWB Music resources helpful, please check out the four links below and consider donating to one or more of them. Anything you donate will be matched by the Olathe Public Schools Foundation, just be sure to type OPSF20Years where it says "Match Code." If you can't help out but you know others who might be interested or able to help, please feel free to share this with them! Thank you!

Quaver Music DVD set 1:
https://www.olathepublicschoolsfoundation.org/fund-a-need/boom-chicka-boom-quaver%E2%80%99s-marvelous-world-music-unit-1

Quaver Music DVD sets 2-4:
https://www.olathepublicschoolsfoundation.org/fund-a-need/seriously-fun-learning-quaver%E2%80%99s-marvelous-world-music-units-2-4

First Steps in Music:
https://www.olathepublicschoolsfoundation.org/fund-a-need/musical-journey-begins-first-step

Conversational Solfege:
https://www.olathepublicschoolsfoundation.org/fund-a-need/thinking-musically-through-conversational-solfege-0

05/04/2015

Check out today's Google Doodle! Celebrate Bartolomeo Cristofori's 360th birthday by experimenting with loud and soft sounds in your class. Remember, Google saves all of their doodles on their doodle website, so you can share this doodle with your music classes anytime of the year. What is your favorite music-related doodle? Share them here!

You may have never heard of Bartolomeo Cristofori, but you definitely know his invention. Cristofori was an Italian musical instrument maker credited with inventing the pianoforte, or: the piano. One of his biggest innovations was creating a hammer mechanism that struck the strings on a keyboard to…

01/22/2015

Check out a couple of fun resources that allow students to layer vocal tracks to create their own mixes of songs!

07/26/2014

It is official! I have created my first "flipped" lesson using TED-Ed! Thanks to Quaver's Marvelous World of Music for the ridiculously catchy song, and to Katie at Midnight Music Technology Training for the inspiration from her recent post.

Quaver has written a very catchy tune for Guido d'Arezzo (and his friend) to help you remember the letter names of the lines and spaces on the treble clef staff. Watch the video as many times as you need to answer all of the questions. Learning Target: "I can name the lines and spaces of the treble…

07/02/2014

Ever get tired of tangled headphones or ear buds? Watch this... it will change everything! :-) Also, make sure you like Midnight Music Technology Training. Katie has tons of great technology tips for musicians and music educators!

Subscribe to the Midnight Music newsletter: http://www.midnightmusic.com.au/newsletter A quick tip from Katie at Midnight Music - how to fold headphones so t...

05/21/2014

Music Express Magazine has updated much of their library to be IWB ready! You can search by theme, voicing, title, and writer. Pay and download immediately to get the songs you need fast!

04/09/2014

Here is an easy way to teach and assess "fast and slow" to your primary music students!

03/28/2014

Check out this fun game called "Whole." Push two matching notes together to create a longer note value! http://lasconic.github.io/whole/ If that is too easy for you, try the harder version called "Breve ." http://lasconic.github.io/breve/

When two tiles with the same note value touch, they merge into one! Forked by Nicolas Froment from MuseScore Whole is a simplified version of

02/20/2014

How I am using the Philharmonia Orchestra Instrument Video Guides in my classroom. I love these! Beautifully filmed and very educational. Be sure to check them out!

02/20/2014

Be sure to check out Amy Burns' new ebook called "Help! I Am an Elementary Music Teacher With a Smart Board!" (and if you look on page 126, you'll find a link to IWB Music! Thanks, Amy!) What a great FREE resource!

Read a sample or download Help! I Am an Elementary Music Teacher With a Smart Board! by Amy Burns with iBooks.

02/17/2014

Ha ha!