Technology and Music Teaching Resources :: 841

PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Live Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th

Take a special trip to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with GPB Education! This interactive virtual exploration offers students a behind-the-scenes experience as they learn about the science of sound and the preparation it takes to put on...

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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Ray Dolby

For Students 9th - 10th

Read the story behind on of the most famous name in music today, Ray Dolby, as told by Forbes writer Jeffrey Young.

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Looper's Delight: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th

An interesting loop-based music site featuring loop-based artists, performances, tools, tips and tricks, and more.

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Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...

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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Oppenheimer: The Computer Delusion

For Students 9th - 10th

A controversial article from The Atlantic magazine suggesting that there is no evidence to show that using computers in schools improves either teaching or learning. Argues against cutting enriching programs in art and music to fund...

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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Ray Kurzweil

For Students 9th - 10th

A prodigy from Queens created hardware and software to help blind people read and musicians make music. His inventions, writings, and influential thinking have explored and exploited technology in many ways, and helped shape ongoing work...

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: The American Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Using music, video and readings, young scholars will explore their views of the American Dream, and use this information to create "Animoto" videos that express a personal opinion or take on the dream. Students will develop and support...

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: American Culture in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th

The First World War had a crippling effect on any notions of positivity in the artists, writers, and intellectuals of that time and they became known as the Lost Generation. This page discusses this group of people, the emergence of jazz...

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plath, Personification, and Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This project based activity will use Sylvia Plath's poem, "Mirror", to examine the use of personification and figurative language. The activity may also incorporate the use of technology to produce a multimedia project. This allows...

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District Administration: Without Boundaries

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st

Technology is becoming more and more of an integral part of arts education. This article discusses how technology can enhance arts education by helping students explore their own creative talents.

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Wine Country Productions: Sequential Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th

This company offers restored and warrantied electronic music equipment and instruments including drum machines and synthesizers. Provides spare parts as well as technical service.

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Library of Congress

Loc: The Birth of the Recording Industry

For Students 9th - 10th

This site from the Library of Congress is a fine site for information on the birth of the recording industry. Emile Berliner's inventions and improvements related to recording technology are chronicled here. Of special interest are his...

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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gioachino Rossini

For Students 9th - 10th

An Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music.

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Curated OER

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Baroque Music

For Students 9th - 10th

This site is a multi-media "encyclopedia" of Baroque music! Use the site as the basis of your curriculum unit on Baroque or as a "textbook" with kids accessing the site from home, library or computer lab.

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