Taking Music Education Teaching Online
The way we understand Music Education in our public schools is rapidly changing. As more teachers move their lessons online, Give A Note wanted to respond and support as we know how: connecting an experienced educator to you all with a list of helpful resources to make this process a bit more manageable.
We reached out to our friend, Anne Fennell, M.Ed., the K-12 Music Program Manager for San Diego Unified School District in San Diego, CA, and 2016-2020 Chair for the NAfME Innovations Council. Here’s her list. Any additional resources you’ve found helpful, please let us know!
ONLINE TEACHING INFO
- Guide to Teaching Online
- How to Use ZOOM for online teaching
- Inside Higher Ed – Take My Advice
- Teaching online
- Tech & Learning
- Free resources during school closures
ONLINE STREAMING
- List of Virtual Concerts
- Free educational subscriptions
- Livestreams from the Met
- Livestreams from the Vienna Opera
- Streaming Jazz Around the World
- TedEd Videos
- Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games
- Vimeo Livestream Videos
- VF Field Trips
MAKING MUSIC ONLINE
(there are many more – just a few you might not have)
- Ableton
- Audacity
- BandLab for Education – Free
- Flat.io
- Incredibox
- Live Collaboration
- Loop Labs
- Making Music Online
- Noteflight
- NYU Music Experience Design Lab
- Online Sequencer
- Snapjam
- Soundation
- Soundtrap (One month free trial)
COMPOSERS
- The Method Behind the Music – (closer to elementary)
- Classics for Kids Composers – AWESOME for elementary
- Royalty Free Composer Images
- Piano Lessons 4 Children – composers
- Top 20 Best Classical Composers of All Time
- Britannica – Top 10 Composers
- Classic FM The World’s Greatest Music
- Famous Composers
- Biography Online
- Totally History – Composers
- Master Composer Index
- San Francisco Classical Composer Gallery
VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS
OVERALL SITES
- Classics for Kids – composer, instruments, etc.
- Midnight Music Online Music Education
- Music careers
- NPR Classics for Kids Podcasts
- Ted Ed Videos in the Arts
MUSEUMS
- Museum of Online Museums
- Basel Historical Museum
- Berlin Musical Instrument Museum (click translate)
- Berlin Philharmonic Digital Library
- British Museum Virtual Tour
- The Collection of Musical Instruments
- Country Music Hall of Fame
- American Jazz Museum
- Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
- GRAMMY® Museum
- Google Arts and Culture Videos
- Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Korea
- Memphis Rock ‘n Soul Museum
- Stax Museum
- Museum of Greek Folk Instruments
- Musical Instrument Museum online
- Musical Instrument Museum
- Museum of Pop Culture
- Musee d’Orsay
- Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubrain
- National Gallery of Art
- National Music Museum
- Musical Instrument Museums of the World Online
- Pergamon Museum, Berlin
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Sound and Music, London, UK
- Uffizi Gallery, Italy
- University of Oxford Bate Collection
- 2500 Museums you can visit online
PODCASTS ON MUSIC PRODUCTION
OTHER SITES
- Google Arts and Culture
- Google Arts and Culture Collections
- Making Music Magazine
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Livestream from Monterey Aquarium
- NASA Digital Images
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Virtual Field Trips
About the Author
ANNE M. FENNELL, M.ED.
www.annefennell.com • Create Muse
Anne Fennell is the K-12 Music Program Manager for San Diego Unified School District in San Diego, CA.
She holds a Bachelor’s in Music Education, a Masters in Leadership Studies, Orff-Schulwerk certification for levels I, II, and III and has additional training and certifications in world music studies, Character Education, Gifted and Talented Education, and Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development. Her experiences include 32 years of teaching Kindergarten through Grade 12 music education, integrated arts and music, leading performance ensembles in civic and professional organizations and national conferences, including the annual NAMM Board of Directors meeting (2013 & 2016), and teaching three levels of both steel drum ensembles and music composition through technology, grades 9-12. Her ensembles have been featured in both InTune Monthly and NAfME’s Teaching Music magazines.