FREE ONLINE MUSIC NOTATION and COMPOSITON with NOTEFLIGHT - Great for Educators - Noteflight comes in it’s FREE version or you can also sign up for their Learning Edition. The Learning Edition is an online service designed for music educators. Available by monthly or yearly subscription, it's based on the Noteflight® Score Editor, a full-featured notation tool that runs in any standard web browser. OR, just use the FREE regular version! Share musical scores, activities and assignments with students effortlessly. All your materials are accessible from any online computer from the moment they're created. Students can access and work with them wherever they happen to be, on any computer -- in the classroom, at a bandmate's house, or at home. And you can prepare or review work from anywhere! And for K-12 teachers in need of a simple hosted solution, we’ve partnered with Haiku Learning Systems to provide an integration with their elegant Haiku LMS product as shown below. Quia - Quintessential Instructional Archive Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including: • Templates for creating 16 types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. Quia activities are designed with different learning styles in mind to suit the needs of all your students. • Complete online testing tools that allow you to create quizzes, grade them with computer assistance, and receive detailed reports on student performance. • Access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes in 300 categories. All of the shared activities have been created by teachers from around the world. • A schoolwide network that allows effortless collaboration with your fellow teachers. • An easy, centralized classroom management system including a master student list, archive of student results, and the tools to conduct schoolwide proficiency testing. • A class Web page creator that includes a course calendar and an easy way to post your Quia activities for students and parents. Online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback. Sibelius Great software for music teachers of music composers. A little expensive but there are lots of shared lesson plans online. Apple iLife 09’ This software comes with every new Apple computer as part of the OS. It features the new GarageBand 09’ which includes the ability to take music lessons with “Sting”, “Norah Jones”, “John Fogerty”, Sarah McLachlan” and other famous musician/composers. An incredible teaching software that comes FREE with the computer. Can’t beat it! Classroom Maestro for Windows and Mac users! Classroom Maestro is an electronic blackboard for classroom music instruction. Use a MIDI keyboard, computer projector, and Classroom Maestro to display: • single notes • intervals • chords • scales • keyboard hand positions quickly and effectively--including optional analysis! Home Concert Extreme Load a Standard MIDI File into Home Concert Xtreme, choose one or two tracks to be displayed in notation, and start playing your MIDI instrument. Based on the settings that you choose, Home Concert Xtreme will: • determine your location, tempo, and dynamic expression • musically coordinate the accompaniment tracks to match your playing • "turn your pages" intelligently In other words, you are the soloist and Home Concert Xtreme is the conservatory-trained conductor, orchestra, and page-turner! Mouse Locator for Mac users! Do you use a projector for presentations and can not see the cursor?  If you are a Mac user here is a FREE plugin that highlights the cursor on screen so the audience can see where it is.     Alesis Transactive Mobile Portable playback device for music teachers on the move a mobile, battery-powered PA system with universal dock for iPod.   Features include: •    High-output powered, mountable 2-way speaker system •    Built-in, rechargeable battery with level indicator; power lasts up to 12 hours •    High-fidelity sound output to more than 150 feet •    Enhanced bass output creates a full, rich sound •    Professional quality microphone included •    Heavy-duty aluminum construction •    Two-wheel system with retractable handle for easy portability price $599 can be bought online for as low as  $280 Groovy Music by Sibelius packaged in 3 different levels - for grades K-8 Great software to get children started enjoying and composing music in early years.  Great intro to the full Sibelius and GarageBand softwares used in Middle and High School. MixCraft - GarageBand like software for Windows users. Morton Subotnick’s - Hearing Music software large catalogue of titles - great software for younger and middle year programs gets children enjoying and composing music before they can play an instrument or learn to read. Disclaimer: Some web pages may provide links to other internet pages created and maintained by other organizations. Links are only for the convenience of website users. Brad Johnston is not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites. Brad Johnston does not endorse or guarantee the services or information offered at these sites. It is the publics responsibility to supervise their children while surfing the world wide web. 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