Favorite Apps & Online Resources - Part I

Communication

• Smore - create online newsletters, flyers, and even websites.

• Canva - easily create beautiful designs & documents. Great for promoting concerts, fundraisers, and events on social media.

• Poster My Wall - create amazing posters & graphics for your music program.

Assessment

• Flipgrid - enables teachers to create opportunities for engagement, assessment, and collaboration through video. Great for playing assessments.

• Quizizz - game-based alternative to Kahoot. Students can work at their own pace or timed. Play it live or assign as homework.

• EDPuzzle - create engaging videos by adding questions, prompts, and more. Plickers - students use cards to answer questions. Teacher scans students’ answer cards with their smartphone to collect data in real-time.

Organization & Productivity

• Google Keep - note-taking app. Accessible across multiple devices. Integrates with Gmail & Google Calendar.

• Evernote - website, app, and browser add-on. Essentially a giant cloud-based virtual file cabinet. Enables users to tag, sort, and organize a variety of file and media formats. Professionally, I use it store and organize music advocacy articles.

• Loom - screen and webcam recording. Great for creating instructional videos for students.

Smartphone Apps

• Spotify - digital music streaming service. Create playlists of concert, jazz, and classical music.

• AnyTune - transpose, change tempo and change pitch of music tracks to play along with or practice.

• Tempo - versatile metronome app with many features.

• Tonal Energy - all in one tuner, metronome, recorder, and more to use individually or with the full ensemble.