1. 7 Online Promotion Techniques to Boost Attendance at School Band Concerts
(Teacher Resources/Fundraising)

...links into your newsletter. Include some links to the band page of your school site. Newly posted blogs, articles, interesting forum discussions, schedules, podcasts, are some examples. Also,...

2. How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 2
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 2 This two part series is designed to give school bands an advantage by incorporating better Search Engine Optimization

3. Student Incentive Programs Revisited
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

This week I thought I would do a little mash up of some of the most interesting articles and blog posts from other music educators that I happened to find recently. My interest in reading these

4. Think Your Kids Have Discipline Problems? Try These Instead!
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...l person to go out of their comfort zone and take on a challenge such as the one I found on a WordPress blog today.  In a blog post by a blogger named MusicWork , she details her recent efforts i...

5. CMP Diary- Making The Choice To Be A Better Teacher
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...ree and a half day class on new ways to think about teaching music in the large group classroom. This blog entry is a continuation of the comments I made in that post. Getting On The Right Track...

6. Classroom Vision and The Self-fulfilling Prophecy
(Teacher Resources/Class Management)

...ent. Describe it, in detail as you see it around you. About The Author: Reg Adkins hosts a blog with information compiled for business owners, school administrators, professors, teachers,...

7. Plagiarism Hits Home
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...at for the most part is not available anywhere else on the web in that form.  When an unscrupulous blogger or webmaster steals that article and posts it verbatim on their site it dilutes that uni...

8. A Guide to Online Fundraising Success for Your School Band
(Teacher Resources/Fundraising)

...subscribers to be automatically updated on new content without having to check your website.  New blogs, email newsletter shipments, and upcoming fundraising events should be placed on an RSS ...

9. Comprehensive Musicianship-Researching Your Selection
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Another part of researching your Comprehensive Musicanship Project lesson plan can be a bit more challenging than the basic analysis of the music.   You simply try to find out as

10. CMP Diary- Analyzing The Heart of the Music
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

The main idea of the Comprehensive Musicianship Project is to help you be a better teacher by helping you discover new and fun ways to teach concepts and skills that are found in our daily music

11. My Comprehensive Musicianship Diary- Day 1
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

The Comprehensive Musicianship Project (CMP) represents a better method of looking at the way we teach music in our schools. The principals are applicable to every musical discipline. Today I hav

12. Effective Classroom Management
(Teacher Resources/Class Management)

...er Teachers". Find out more about his book here: http://www.teaching-teacher.com and check out his blog for free teaching tips here: http://www.teaching-tips-machine.com/blog Article So...

13. Happy 2nd Birthday to MusicEdMagic
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...til you read them!  By popular request I have added a new comment system to the articles and blog posts here on MusicEdMagic.  Now you can comment on an article by clicking the link at...

14. Music and its Roots in Voodoo
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...get there. Seth Mullins is the author of "Song of an Untamed Land". Visit his complete blog at http://www.writingup.com/blog/seth_mullins Article Source: http://EzineArticles.c...

15. Finale 2009 Released
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...r this week and will post it as soon as possible for everyone to see. At the time of this blog post MakeMusic is offering an upgrade price of $99 while the full academic version (no upgr...

16. Unique Fund Raising Program Puts A New Spin On Gift Giving
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

I normally don't do articles or blogs on fund raising products but I came across a new take on the old standard of door to door selling of gifts.  While it probably isn't for everyone, there is

17. Guitar Hero To Use Real Instruments?
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

I often mention Guitar Hero in my blog posts.  Not because I am fascinated with the game so much as I am fascinated with the hold that it has on my band students.  Students that I can't ge

18. Mac Users Unite For Science
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

This may be a little off topic for a music education site, but since so many music educators also are avid Macintosh fanatics I thought it might be fun to post it anyway.  Considering the recen

19. Batteries Recharged and Ready To Go
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

... have recharged my enthusiasm for teaching music and made me want to be a better teacher.  In this blog post I will highlight some of the big things I learned and saw over the course of the event...

20. Musical Oddities and Strange Songs
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...ce discovered on YouTube by Professor Joe Pisano.   Windows Sounds Sequenced In Song- Blog post by Joe Pisano, collegiate music educator Joe Pisano always finds the coolest of ...

21. Teacher Travel Troubles: Leave Your Laptop At Home
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Departing a bit from music education for a moment I wanted to share some information I received today regarding international travel and problems people are having bringing technology across the bor

22. New Tool For Music Tech News Seekers
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

... sometime and make my own news page using the PageFlakes application that he recently showed off in his blog .  I'd highly recommend taking a look at it, and the rest of his site as well if you a...

23. New Ways To Use SmartMusic
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

Many people who use SmartMusic Studio simply have no idea of the wide array of alternate ways to use it as a teaching tool.  Everyone is familiar with the assessment aspect of SmartMusic, but t

24. Tips and Secrets of SmartMusic Master Educators
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

Since SmartMusic Studio was first introduced there has been a three way division within the music education community.  First come music teachers that shun the idea of using such technolog

25. Video: Assistive Technology for Band Students
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...l and obtain more information about this story and how the device was created.  Check back on this blog post for links to any additional information that I am able to obtain. For the ful...

26. Music Notation Software: Sibelius 5 Roundup
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Sibelius 5 is used by thousands of music educators and professional musicians world wide, and it's rise in popularity in the United States over the years can be traced directly to the hard work t

27. Student Musical Instrument Buyers Guide
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Everywhere we look young 5th and 6th graders all across the USA are begging and pleading with their parents to let them play a musical instrument in their school band.  A band director wants th

28. A Brief Biography of Mozart
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

This document presents a brief biography of Mozart including his early childhood, travels, and demise in 1791. Born in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the second child in the family of Leopol

29. Paradise Burning
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

I hadn't intended to post a blog article today. In fact, today marked the opening day of the annual Iowa Bandmaster's Convention in Des Moines and I had hoped to let the next few days recharg

30. Content Management Systems For Non-Profit Organizations
(Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

This article gives details on several different content management systems that schools and non-profit groups can use to create easily edited and very nice looking web sites. Detailed are the Jooml