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Online Applications

Acapella allows you and your students to create multipart videos. These are great for recording student collaborations on concert literature or chamber music. And thoughts on how to use it from Chris Cayari (Purdue University)

Chrome Music Lab is a website with lots of exploratory activities for general music.

This group is dedicated to e-learning practices in the music classroom.

Flipgrid is like a social media video host for your classroom. Students can create and upload short videos, accessible to only you and your students. This is great for performance tests and demonstrations.

NoteFlight is online music notation software. They are offering free access to NoteFlight Learn to schools affected by COVID-19 closures.

Panopto allows you to record both video and your computer screen, with options for editing, captioning, and integration of outside resources.

Screencast-O-Matic allows you to record both video and your computer screen, with options for editing, captioning, and integration of outside resources.

Seesaw is essentially social media for your classroom. You can create a closed community in which you can interact with your students and families.

Sight Reading Factory is offering free student subscriptions to schools  that are closed for the COVID-19 outbreak. It offers sight reading and sight singing practice on line.

Smart Music provides guided, online practice and recording. During the COVID-19 outbreak, they are offering free access to schools affected by closures. Contact sales@makemusic.com for details.

This page was hastily created in March 2020 as a resource to music teachers who suddenly found themselves with the directive of "teach your classes outside of the school" due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The hope is that this site can become a repository of open source materials and resources to facilitate distance learning in the music classroom, either for this school emergency or for future ones.

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Brian Weidner at Butler University maintains this page, but the resources are drawn from teachers around the country. When possible, the original contributors have been recognized. If you have ideas to contribute to this project, please e-mail Dr. Weidner at bweidner@butler.edu.

CC BY-NC 2020 Brian N. Weidner. 

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