Webliography of Music Education Resources

1.
-Teoria
-http://www.teoria.com/index.html
-This website provides students an extensive training site that can better their music theory understanding. It is extremely interactive and could be an excellent form of supplemental materials for your classroom.
-There are very few disadvantages to this site and I a lot of advantages, I would give it 5 out of 5 stars

2.
-JWPepper
-http://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/welcome.jsp
-JWPepper has excellent service and a wonderful stockpile of sheet music for the educator. This website has really figured out the best ways to get music to the customer and it is extremely easy to work with.
-Once again this site has little to no faults and provided me with only the best experiences (5 out of 5 stars)

3.
-MusicEdMagic
-http://www.musicedmagic.com/
-MusicEdMagic is a site that is good for information regarding music. There seem to be a lot of ideas on this site to make teaching more effective.
-I have not found a problem with this site yet, but I do not know how credible it is as of yet. (3 out of 5 stars)

4.
-NYSSMA
-http://nyssma.org/
-The NYSSMA website provides music educators in New York with a wealth of information, from contest dates, to jobs that are available, and conference information. It is an extremely useful tool and when used with MENC you can get almost all of the music news that you need as an educator.
-Some of the documents on this page are hard to open, but that is a small price to pay for what it does. (5 out of 5 stars)

5.
-MENC
-http://menc.org/
-MENC is the governing body of music education in the United States. It is here that you can go to get information surrounding conferences, contests, and even get new ideas for the classroom. It provides a music educator with almost everything that they could need.
-The website is a little bit clunky and is not always very accessible, however, like the NYSSMA website MENC is well worth dealing with awkwardness.(5 out of 5 stars)

6.
-Teachnology
-http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/music/
-This page of the website in particular is useful because of some of the neat ideas that it can provide a music teacher. some of the lesson plans seem interesting and I could see myself doing them if I end up in a general music classroom.
-I wish there were a few more lesson plans, it feels like this site was started and never finished (3 out of 5 stars)

7.
-Support Music
-http://www.supportmusic.com/
-This website was set up as a way for teachers, community members, and students to get the word out about how music is an important part of their schooling. It provides a lot of websites that can aid in the effort to make music education's usefulness known.
- I am not sure if all of the facts of this website line up, but the information is useful (4 out of 5 stars)

8.
-Suite101
-http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/music_education
-This page gives teachers new and creative ideas for their classroom. It makes the students' time more enjoyable and allows for diversification in the classroom.
- The page is pretty hard to find anything on, you basically have to stumble through it to find what you need (3 out of 5 stars)

9.
-8notes
http://www.8notes.com/theory/
-This website gives great information about some easy to intermediate music theory. It uses videos and recordings to help the student get an idea of what they should be seeing and hearing.
- This site is not as good as the teoria site, but is still an effective supplemental tool in the classroom. (4 out of 5 stars)

10.
-thinkquest
-http://library.thinkquest.org/2791/MDOPNSCR.htm
-This is a moderately large music dictionary. It holds a selection of music vocabulary that is necessary for the full understanding of musical works and thoughts.
-I feel as though this site is credible, however, I am a little unnerved using it as opposed to a hard copy of a music dictionary. (4 out of 5 stars)