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 will support and defend the arts [...]

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 [...]

I just added a Fliggo site to my repertoire of Web 2.0 tools. Check out MrsJ’s Musical Oddities at http://urbanmusiceducation.fliggo.com. I will post funny and amazing videos that I find while browsing YouTube and also use the site to post videos from my classroom projects! Enjoy and feel free to leave comments!
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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 [...]

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 to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just finished the sessions with Marcy Cochran and Podcasting 101, and I’m so stoked to start using them in my blogs. I think I’m going to try to add narration to the photos I took of kids at the beginning of the year and try to explain some  of the thing we have been focusing [...]