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Musipedia

Welcome to Musipedia! Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, we are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.

Every entry can be edited by anyone. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour.

BioDigital Human

Welcome to the future of medical understanding. The BioDigital Human is an HTML5 bases platform for medicine and healthcare. Using 3-D, Web-GL visualization the BioDigital Human serves as an interactive tool for medical students to access complex human anatomy in a simple web browser. The surgical and disease-state animations embedded into the interface provide an interactive visual-aid for medical device and pharmaceutical sales reps to explain medical concepts to healthcare practitioners. As anatomical landmarks are paired with embedded education, instructive, and training information, the BioDigital Human is the most intuitive way for data groups to organize and navigate medical information.  

Mama Lisa's

Welcome to Mama Lisa's World, a place for songs, rhymes, and traditions from across the globe!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This site tells about what exhibitions, collections, and events are at the museum.

Power Point Tools and Resources

EmergingEdTech presents a number of ideas and free resources that can help you add fun and pizzazz to your PowerPoint slide presentations by incorporating engaging visual and audio elements. The extent to which you evolve your slides is limited only by the time you wish to devote to it, and how imaginative you are. Of course, it's also important not to get carried away (which is easy to do with some of these tools), so remember that the addition of a couple simple visual or audio elements is usually more than enough to add new life to an old slide deck, or make a new one fun for both you and your students.

Safety Mode for Youtube

"Diversity of content is one of the great things about YouTube. But we know that some of you want a more controlled experience. That's why we are announcing Safety Mode, an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content you may prefer not to see or do not want others in your family or classroom to stumble across while enjoying YouTube. An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage. While no filter is 100% perfect, Safety Mode is another step in our outgoing desire to give you greater control over the content you see on the site."  

IKnowthat.com

iKnowthat.com was designed to make learning fun for school children from PreK to 6th grade. Their online educational games offer engaging, interactive ways for kids to improve their skills in math, language, science, and more. The free online math games at iKnowthat align with educational standards. iKnowthat supplements and reinforces lessons from school, while sharpening learning skills with online educational games covering the full range of elementary school topics. Parents and teachers alike will find iKnowthat's creative models for problem-solving, vocabulary building and free online math games get kids excited about learning.

The American Bandmasters Association

The American Bandmasters Association, founded in 1929, with John Philip Sousa as Honorary Life President, recognizes outstanding achievement on the past of Concert Band conductors and composers. The current membership (invitational) comprises approximately 300 band conductors and composers in the USA and Canada, and 70 Associate Members (music businesses and corporations that provide significant services to bands and to the publication of band music.)

Museum of Obsolete Objects

The Museum of Obsolete Objects is site of videos set up on a timeline of when objects became obsolete. The items that are obsolete will surprise you, but take a look at what is to come.

You Be the Historian

This site will intrigue the minds of future historians everywhere by digging through clues to discover what life was like 200 years ago for Thomas and Elizabeth Springer's family in New Castle, Delaware.

At the same time discover what historians in the next century could learn about you if they found your house exactly the way it is today.

Do you think you have what it takes to discover the facts? Let's find out.

Teaching Resources from the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

HiDrive

HiDrive uses cloud technology to allow you contact with your favorite files from from any computer or smartphone. You can be anywhere in the world and still have access to your photos, music, and documents and the best part is, it is FREE!!!

Internet Public Library 2

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a new system, built upon current copyright law, that allows you to legally use "some rights reserved" music, movies, images, and other content - all for free. Creative Commons offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use, without a lawyer, to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician would use a Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs online, make copies for friends, or even use them in videos or other compositions.

Schooltraq

Schooltraq is an online academic planner that enables students to track and organize assignments and classwork effortlessly in a clean and minimalist web app.

Who Am I? A History Mystery

Who Am I? A History Mystery is a history game that starts out with 6 question marks and after clicking on one you try to solve the puzzle by reading clues and picking items and placing them in the evidence folder that help you solve the mystery of who the person is.

Study Guides and Strategies

Study Guides and Strategies is full of numerous guides to help in a different subjects and skills. For example: writing, vocabulary, thinking, evaluation, reading, research, and math.

Exploring the World of Music

Gain an understanding of the basic elements of music with this series, an introduction to music with a global perspective. Exploring the World of Music shows how elements such as melody, rhythm, and texture create an infinite variety of sounds and serve as expressions of culture. Through rare archival footage and contemporary performances, the series presents themes such as music and the environment, music as cultural memory, and how technology changes music. The featured artists perform music from around the world, including American Jazz, gospel, and rock, and traditional music from Bosnia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, Japan, and West Africa. This series is also valuable for teachers seeking to review subject matter.

Students Give E-Learning A Grade Of Incomplete

I feel that the reason for students not learning from a computer based teaching is because most students that were assessed were not given technology based instruction before middle school (this is an assumption). Humans are a creature of habit. For example, if someone learned to multiply by 9s using their fingers then they are going to refer to it later. Again this is from common knowledge of my observations, but most students have learned how to solve basic problems that majority of everything is going to be based off of by age 12, so when technology is added, it adds an unlearned variable, and students will refer back to what they originally know so they do not have to learn something new.

Article 

Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog.

Classroom Blog

This is Mr Squires blog that won secong runner up. He has videos of interviews with teachers and students from other areas of the United States that discuss the differences that they have in climate, etc.

Resource Sharing Blog

This site has art lesson plan ideas, listings of online art-related resources, student work, as well as ramblings about being an art teacher in China.

Teacher Blog

This is a blog from an English teacher. He has listed numerous blogs that help students, with research and other things, in his classroom.

Graphic Organizer Resources from Teachers First

Whether you call them concept maps, mind maps, KWLs, or graphic organizers, these visual diagrams show relationships between concepts and provide a powerful tool for learning and connecting new ideas. Creating graphic organizers also helps today's visual learners build reading comprehension. this collection of reviewed resources includes tools for creating graphic organizers and many suggestions for ways to use them in teaching almost any subject or grade. Be sure to read the "In the Classroom" suggestions for examples of ways to use graphic organizers as part of a lesson or unit. 


Graphic Organizer Resources from Teachers First

Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps

This site has a list of education applications for the iPad that they use to let the students experience the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Bloom's Taxonomy and iPad Apps

The Down Low on Ferlazzo

At first I was skeptical about some random guy that has a website titled, "The Best of Series." The reason being, who has enough time to find out what is the best? Plus everyone's definition or opinion of what the best is different. BUT... This guy has some awesome sites to look through. For example Ferlazzo's site, "The Best SItes For Ideas On Making Simple Musical Instruments" is really good. It contains links to 9 Easy to Make Musical Instruments for Kids. This site is really easy to use and most elementary students can make an instrument by themselves following the instructions.

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/05/20/the-best-sites-for-ideas-on-making-simple-musical-instruments/

I Dig Diigo

Scroll down the page of Ms. Garrett's Music Quizzes, Games, and Help Pages to play over 130 elementary quizzes, puzzles, and games about music. Music Information and Theory pages below will help you learn the names of music notes, rhythms, terms, and the names of famous musicians and composers.

Ms. Garrett's Music Quizzes, Games, and Help Pages

Meet the Teacher

Greetings Music Scholars, I am Mr. Middlebrooks. I graduated from Emmanuel College in 2012 with a Music Education Degree. I am excited about the upcoming year. I hope that you are ready to work on music and have fun. Always remember to B sharp, never B flat, and always B natural.