MENC: The National Association for Music Education is advocating School Tube, a website similar to YouTube that features educational videos. I was checking it out tonight when I found this amazing video of the PS22 Chorus singing “Let There Be Peace on Earth”. Absolutely incredible.
Even as a music educator I sometimes forget the amazing things young children are capable of. Shame on me and let this serve as a reminder of what they can do!
Thanks to this conversation on Classroom 2.0 I have discovered this very cool web-based music notation tool. You can create and play compositions, share them and embed them into your own website. Pretty useful if you’re using a blog or wiki as a classroom tool!!
I am a member of VSTE (Virginia Society for Technology in Education) which is a free organization. I also follow VSTE on Twitter, and that’s how I found out about this cool little thing on the PBS website. It allows one to experiment with the length and width of strings and to arrange different strings to create a composition. It is very IWB friendly and would also be a good exploration activity in a lab setting (although I don’t think it would hold kids for a whole class period, it might work well as “bell work”.)
Enjoy!
