Technology enhanced Music Education - workshop January, 2014
I am Laura Freund, Music and Technology Specialist at Southland Elementary. I try to incorporate technology into my music classroom to engage students and to do musical things that would not be possible without the technology we enjoy!
Use this page to find web site links, view suggested iPad apps, and connect to Smart Notebook files.
Use this page to find web site links, view suggested iPad apps, and connect to Smart Notebook files.
Smart Notebook Files
These are a few Notebook files I would like to share. They are not as good as they could be! Feel free to adapt, add, cut or completely ignore these! They are here as example of some of the things that can be done in Notebook. Be sure to check out Smartexchange for some really well done files and examples!
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Links to Websites
click the button to link to Livebinders "Music Classroom Freund." It includes the websites below.
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Kindergarten, First Grade
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Grades 2 - 3
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Grades 4 - 5
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Teacher Resources
YouTube - Log in, subscribe to channels and create Playlists that fit your lessons.
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Periodicals
Even if you do not subscribe to these, there are online resources to use. |
Online Resources
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iPad Apps for the Music Classroom
Free AppsMonkey Drum Free
Create, play and remix rhythms. Use to assess rhythms - has a record feature. Use at a rhythm dictation station Hokusai
Sound Uncovered is an interesting interactive book about sound.
Rhythm Cat Lite a progressive rhythm playing game. Pay $4.99 to unlock more levels - 60 in all. Free up to 15. There are also Treble Cat and Bass Cat.
Playpad In treble or bass clef, free version plays the note from touching the staff. Use for composing learning treble and bass clef notes.
aXylophone - a simple xylophone with chromatics I am Composer Also for composing. Sing into app and it notates on the staff, repeats on an instruments and asks if you want to save it (which is possible with paid upgrade.) Sharing file has many samples - while playing, switch instruments to hear from pop, classic and world instruments.
Piano Band - for little ones. Has small selection of songs. Colorful graphics, uses solfeg though not in the proper key.
Music Sparkles. Full (paid) version has many instruments. Free includes solfeg syllables as scale or notes are touched.
Soundhound identifies songs by “listening” to recordings on radio, or from your own singing or humming
Anytune slow down or speed up songs without changing pitch, change key without altering tempo, set up loops and add markers. This app shows the waveform of the song, making it easy to navigate. Recommended by Midnight Music - worth the upgrade to the paid version.
Musician's Kit tuner, metronome, recorder. Can name, delete, or mail recordings
Percussive Free - Choose octave of a xylophone with soft or hard mallet. Has all chromatics. Use when short of Orff instruments? Pay for more mallet instrument choices.
Singing Monsters an octave of pop-up monsters on the moon. Use for ear training with little ones. Tapping the craters pops up an unknown pitch; students can find the match from the scale.
Blob Chorus. Ear training. Match King Blob's pitch from choices in the blob choir. Progresses
Singing Fingers - Youtube video to show app. Records while you draw your finger across screen. Touching the drawing plays back sound as it was recorded there. One teacher has used to show retrograde, augmentation, etc!
Melody Street A story about how the instruments of the orchestra learning to live together in harmony. Autoplay version plays like a movie, interactive option. Only the first chapter has been developed...
My Musical Friends HD Families of instruments, listen to individual instruments, interactive information.
Mozart Interactive - by Melody Street. An interactive game to identify instrument sounds. For younger students.
Rhythm Training - free version. Play progressive rhythms by tapping the given rhythm on a drum.
Mini Adventures Music - an alphabet interactive book about musical instruments and styles. Spelling, beautiful photos and video of the instrument played by a musician. Includes non-traditional instruments and those from non-Western cultures.
Sounddrop For fun and connection to physics... add lines to screen for drops to bounce and make sounds. Change the lines and see how the sound changes. Similar apps: Jello Jiggle it and Falling Stars. I use these at the beginning of the year when we learn about sound.
QuickVoice A recorder. Recordings can be emailed. Peekaboo Lite - An interactive orchestra app. For real young ones. An instrument plays behind the stage curtain, you identify it. Tapping the curtain reveals the instrument, the name is given and shown. Same idea as WHOO Music My Note Games - listen to a melodic passage, then arrange the notes on the staff according to what you heard. "hear it, note it" |
Paid AppsMaestro XL - metronome and shows conducting pattern from player or conductor's perspective. Change meter, tempo, articulation. Choose from metronome markings or tap to set tempo.
Music Theory for Beginners - has progressive lessons and quizzes. Treble and bass clef, time signatures, note values, rests, intervals, dynamics, pick-ups, repeats $4.99
Flashnote Derby - a timed note naming game like Staff wars only with horses on a track. Gives a chance to review mistakes and race again. 10 examples. Choose the actual notes to be quizzed on from grand staff.
Garage Band - Really worth your purchase, even for your own use. Students would have a chance to improvise and compose in a new way (that sounds good)
Teacher Tools and other appsiTubeList Search for a topic, the search returns playlists of videos, once a playlist is selected, the videos are downloaded. I have used this a lot - even for tutorials on something I wanted to learn.
Remote - Control iTunes from your iPad. Easy and quick to play recordings during class.
Buttons - a matrix of sound effects, game buzzers, sound bytes. Lots of fun! Warning: Be sure to hide inappropriate sounds (there are some) if handing the iPad to a student. |