Teach Rock for National Poetry Month
Take advantage of the free lessons and resources on the Teach Rock site to plan for arts-integrated, standards-based lessons that will engage your students.
music
Working Together While We’re Apart
I have been uplifted by the many videos that have been shared on social media lately showing how people are making their own joy with others despite our physical distances. I wanted to share a few today. This first one was brought to my attention in a blog post by @LarryFerlazzo: Here are two young … Read more
A.I. Duet
Today’s Frivolous Friday post is in honor of my colleague, Angela Leonhardt, who is a music educator extraordinaire. She just made it to the finals for our district’s Teacher of the Year. That honor and many more are well-deserved by this wonderful teacher, who enriches our community with her dedication. If I had any music … Read more
Musicmap
Musicmap is an incredible interactive website project by Kwinten Crauwels, which endeavors to offer an encyclopedic collection of music genres and their histories. When you first visit the site, you will probably be familiar with most of the titles on the home page. Click on any type of music, however, and you will be able to access … Read more
Piano Tiles
Piano Tiles (Don’t Tap the White Tile) is a free app, available on iTunes and Google Play. The name of the game is pretty self-explanatory. As black and white tiles fall down the screen, your job is to tap the black tiles only. The black tiles will make the sounds of music notes as you … Read more
Gifts for the Gifted – Compose Yourself
Thinkfun periodically sends products to me for review. When Compose Yourself arrived on my doorstep, I knew that I should find someone with a musical background to give it a test drive. Our school music teacher, who is also the President-Elect for the Texas Music Educator’s conference, volunteered to try out the game with her class. Here is … Read more