Well, I’m back home now and I spent a lot of time with my girls today- something I’ve been really missing since being down in the Springs for CMEA 2011 this past weekend. My presentation on “Infusing Technology into Orff Schulwerk” went really well, and despite a few PPT glitches and creating way to many [...]

I just had to post today to share my success with a new website, MelodyStreet.com that I decided to try out on my K-2′s this week. It was the first time I had Kindergarten and first grade in my music tech lab and it was a great opportunity to show them the ropes so we [...]

Today I virtually attended the first ever Music Education Technology Online Seminar (METOS) sponsored by Soundtree. I was happy that the registration process was so easy, but felt like an idiot when I went to log in to my first seminar with Dr. James Frankel and realized that the sessions were all in Eastern Standard [...]

I worked on my word wall today. Click on any of the thumbnails in this post to see a bigger picture. It is truly a conglomeration now of music and movement words! I started last year with alphabetizing my list of music words and using wet erase markers to write them on the glass of [...]

MarchComesIn- 3rd grade Class 3B,  Performance Asessment March 2010 I realized this week that I do not post regularly enough on the front of the blog when my students do neat things. Here are a few things we’ve been working on this month that are pretty cool! K/1 learned accompaniment to the popular children’s book, [...]

Well, folks, I finally have a few minutes to sit and compose a blog post! It’s been a crazy past couple months with a successful performance and lots of state testing going on. Things have returned to “normal” and I can finally make music in the music room again! Lately, though, I’ve been using my [...]

21st Century Music Education Advocacy Author: Stefani Langol About Author: Assistant Professor, Music Education – Berklee College of Music Use: General Music Skills Type: Using Technology Solution: Classroom Technology, Music Education In these times of unprecedented financial instability, it’s more important than ever to have strong, visibly active, and well-organized music education advocacy groups that [...]

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. [...]

Ok, here’s my $.02 on this video: Sure, music helps math and science scores go up, so the studies show. But, where are the studies that say taking math and science will help with one’s musicianship? Why can’t we be the nation that competes with other nations to have the best, highly regarded ARTISTS AND [...]