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FREEBIES! A few new things I’ve been working on…

25 Aug 2010

Hello one and all! Thought I’d take a minute and post some of the documents I’ve been working on for the start of the school year. They are free to download and use as you please, but I ask that you give me credit if you are using them for more than personal or classroom [...]

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More on Backwards Designing-Reflections from Teaching

10 Nov 2009

Started teaching the first of my Backwards Designed units today (How to Blues- 5th grade) and I thought I’d reflect on the experience. Up ’til now I’ve just been puttering along, re-designing each “unit”(or rather set of fun, but otherwise meaningless, activities) that I have scrapped together and taught since the beginning of the year. [...]

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Helpful Websites for the Music Classroom and Beyond

03 Feb 2009

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 [...]

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Teaching blahs and Technology A-Ha’s

26 Jan 2009

Conference time has come and gone. I’m back in the classroom on a snowy January. Testing pressure is mounting and kids are going crazy already. I am frantic to find time to fit in curriculum and performance material (which should be one in the same, but inevitably end up different somehow).  And I just don’t [...]

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Welcome to the New, but not yet improved, Urbanmusiceducation.org!

15 Oct 2008

Welcome to urbanmusiceducation.org! I am in the process of re-designing the site in a blog format as the former php format was getting stale and unusable. After careful evaluation of the site, I came to the realization that the site needed major overhauling and a vision in order to survive otherwise it needed to get [...]

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