YouTube Fav: Mike Huckabee on Art and Music Education
15 Feb 2011
Reflections from METOS 2010
12 Oct 2010
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 [...]
March Videos and a Podcast
19 Mar 2010
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, [...]
An Excellent video about Creativity
13 Aug 2009
This video by Ken Robinson radically and comically redefines the structure of education to educate “the whole being”. An amazing advocacy video for the inclusion of Art, Music, Dance, Drama and other “creative” subjects in the school system. I love the story he tells about Gillian Lynne. Please share with educators and parents alike!
An interesting video for Advocacy Thursday
24 Jul 2009
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 [...]
UrbanMusicEducation is now on Fliggo!
23 May 2009
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! ~S