A parody I wrote yesterday after the tragedy. Hope you like it:) (Sing to the tune of “American Pie”) A short, few days ago, I could still remember when my laptop used to make me smile. And I knew if I had the chance, that I could check my FaceBook stats, and maybe I’d be [...]

An NPR Radio Broadcast Series By Korva Coleman Hear Segment 3 in the Series Real Media | Windows Media Performance Today, November 17, 2004 – In the third installment of our music education series, NPR’s Korva Coleman visits an urban at-risk school that was in danger of failing. Baltimore’s Roland Park Elementary is an older [...]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210110043.htm# ScienceDaily (2009-02-11) — Music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on reading and mathematics achievement in early childhood and adolescence. But, then again, we all know this already ~S

I’m glad to report that I’m still going strong with the 30 Days of Better Blogging Challenge and am on Day 21 (even though it’s been about 2 months!) So this exercise is all about digging deeper and thinking about the reasons why I blog. I have done this and decided to post them here [...]

Alright blogosphere readers, I have a confession to make. I am sincerely confused with RSS. After creating a feed for this blog, I decided to included some podcasts, as you may have already seen, and though I’m probably going about the process backwards, I thought it would be fairly easy to figure out how to [...]

Peter-and-the-Wolf Re-tell by Room 211 This Podcast is a Re-tell of the famous symphonic poem performed, illustrated and re-told by my current 2nd graders at Harrington Elementary. After listening to Prokofiev’s music and watching a video of the story, the class discussed diferent instruments used to describe each character, then chose instruements from our classroom [...]

My First Podcast! I created this enhanced podcast using Garage Band 3 and photos from my kindergarten music class.

So I have been in the process of uploading documents into my Media Gallery for future posting and came across a “paper” that I had done for my independent study in “Web Resources for the General Music Educator”. I designed this course in 2003 to fulfill my requirements for a music technology minor at CU-Boulder [...]