A document camera is always a great start. I love introducing music to students by putting it up on the document camera. This way we can analyze the music as a class. We can even make changes to the music as a class.
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I teach elementary music and my students really enjoy Music Ace by Harmonic Vision. They work at their own pace and the classroom is very much absorbed in learning music theory aurally, visually, and kinesthetically.
Getting students to record, share and reflect about their performance activities in class and in bands is a good way to get into music technology - and also skills up students without putting all the learning emphasis on the teacher.
Erin, there are things out there you can use depending on your portability factor..you can get tunetalk for your iPod (would recommend an iPod Touch) just because of it's other function such as tuner, metronome, and many other things..or dock…
Cool! I actually worked on both of those apps for Smule. I also a former 4th grade teacher. You don't know how happy I am to hear about this! Any chance you have a video you can share?
I had a couple of kids bring in their ipod Touch and iphones (mostly borrowed from their parents) for an ocarina an leaf trombone concert once. They loved it!
Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you have any 2ndary education contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Oklahoma!
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!