As some have been having trouble opening the previous version, here is a .PDF of the Circle Seating Chart. Sorry for the confusion!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Is Tagxedo the new Wordle? I tried it out and found the expanded features(arrange your words in shapes, custom colors and themes) exciting and fun to waste time with! Didn’t like having to load another Microsoft plugin onto my computer, but it was worth it for the amount I paid for it (nothing!) Check out [...]

Here’s a few photos of the two arrangements in my room for the Wiimote Whiteboard(WW). First arrangement, up in the “front” of the room by the real whiteboard. My room is longer than it is wide, so I originally installed my projector screen on the little overhang on the side so I could have the [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

This week I’m featuring Americans for the Arts, an organization advocating for Arts Education across the US. From the SchoolMusicMatters website: “Americans for the Arts claims to be the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With a 40-year record of service, they are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and [...]

Here is the debut post for my newest blog feature “Advocacy Thursday” where I will unveil a new article, website, or tidbit about Music or Education advocacy in my district, city, nation, or perhaps the world! This week features a website sponsored by Music K-8 Magazine called SchoolMusicMatters.com. The site contains many helpful resources for [...]

As I was up late tonight formatting all of my students’ Garage Band pieces into mp3′s to look nice and clean for my new inline Yahoo! Media Player, I came across this little gem for those who are looking to use Garage Band for the first time in the classroom or need to brush up [...]