Music Education Resources on edna

The South Australian branch of the Australian Society of Music Education is holding their Term 4 conference this weekend. The conference's theme is Closing the Gap: Engaging students and delivering educational outcomes through pop culture and technology. Right up my alley I think!

Here is the handout that I will be sharing with them and hopefully you will also find some interesting and useful resources as well!

General Music and Music Education Resources
Find a wide range of online resources on the composition, improvisation, performance, appreciation and critical examination of music and musical instruments.

General Music and Music Education Theme Page
In this theme page teachers will find links to resources within the edna repository to songs, editing software, lesson plans and interactive sites:

• Interactive music sites
• Lyrics
• Music
• Music lesson plans
• Music theory
• Musical notes
• Songs
• Sound editing
• Writing Music
• Music events
• Virtual Instruments
• Software
• Music History

Early Childhood: Music and Movement for Years 0-8
A collection of resources related to teaching music and movement with young children, including songs, drama and related activities.

Upcoming Music Education Events
Monitor upcoming national and international education events in the edna Calendar. The collection if fully searchable and a range of Music Education events can be found.

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Posted at 05:36PM Nov 21, 2008 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[1]

Concetta's Christmas Carnival of Learning

Concetta has collected a myriad of great ideas to do in the classroom this Christmas season. Check them out on her me.edu.au blog post Christmas Carnival of learning

If you have any great ideas or have seen something you'd like to add, leave a comment on Concetta's blog post!

 Also the OzProjects team has been hard at work again, putting together the December Celebrations Around the World online project: A place to share information and link to useful resources about December celebrations around the world.

We've already had lots of interest in this project from schools from around Australia and even an International school in Saudi Arabia! We hope to see a lot of interaction in the coming weeks.

Don't forget to check out the Christmas Theme Page in the Schools Sector of the edna site. The aim of edna's Christmas theme page is to help provide educators with a selection of highlighted links to online resources from within the edna collection. Basically we've done the testing and reviewing for you!

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Posted at 04:11PM Nov 21, 2008 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]