One Device, Now What?

• Connect using an app (AirServer or Reflector) or connect via lightning cable (OS 10.10+)
• Share any app or website from your device

Educreations

• Free app, but requires paid account for several features
• Easy to use
• Cannot export to camera roll with free version
• Sample uses: rhythm reading, composition, staff notation, demonstrating a concept (student or teacher), recording lesson segments

Explain Everything

• Paid app ($2.99)
  
• Easy to use but more features than Educreations
• Can export photos or videos to camera roll
• Sample uses: rhythm reading, composition, staff notation, demonstrating a concept (student or teacher), recording lesson segments

Powerpoints & PDFs

• Use files you create yourself or purchase on TPT
• Give students more individual practice
• Use Powerpoint app or Adobe Reader app
• Sample uses: digital worksheets, individualized practice of concepts, review material from lessons

• Public bulletin board
• Can be set as public or moderated
• No student login required
• Sample uses: Generate student ideas, get feedback, check for understanding, submit student work

• "Quick Response" code
• Navigate quickly to a website, image, or other link
• Create using a website (example: www.qrstuff.com)
• Scan using a QR Reader (example: i-nigma)
• Sample uses: helping students navigate to websites, sharing audio recordings, checking student work, sharing info with parents

Camera

• Photo or video
• No apps to install
• "Show" what students know
• Self-assessment/reflection
• Can be shared via email or video/photo sharing sites
• Sample uses: record video of skill performance, document process, photos of student written work, display work, compare work examples in class, document camera

Seesaw

• Collect photos, audio, video
• Share with parents
• EASY to use
• Can tag items for multiple students
• Teacher or student assessment
• Add co-teachers
• Available on: iOS, Chrome

Composition/Arranging

• Tune Train
• Monkey Drum
  
• Loopseque Kids
• Doodle DJ
• Sound Drop (Awesome connection with Animusic's "Pipe Dream")

Rhythm Work

• Woodchuck Rhythm
• Rhythm Cat

Aural Skills

• Blob Chorus
  

Absolute Note Names

• Name That Note
  
• Flashnote Derby
  

Instruments

• Mini Piano
• Real Ukulele
• Xylophones HD

Team Shake - Choose groups, select students randomly (paid app)

Smart Seat - Seating charts with images (paid app)

Google Voice - Parent contact, student create/send audio assessments

Chirp - Send websites or files with an audio signal

Andrea Halverson is the Director of Professional Learning and Development at Kaleidoscope Charter School in Otsego, MN. In this position, she provides professional development and training for teachers, observes and coaches teachers, and coordinates the new teacher induction program. Before working at KCS, she spent time as a K-12 technology integration specialist.

Prior to her work in technology, she taught elementary and middle school music for nine years. She holds a BA and an MA in Music Education from the University of St. Thomas. She is certified in both the Kodály and Orff Schulwerk approaches. She is currently serving as the MKMEA Executive Treasurer and is a past president of the Kodály Chapter of Minnesota. She is a frequent presenter of both music and technology at local, state, and regional music education conferences.

Email: andrea@andreahalverson.com
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