Music Project Week Three is talking about Tools to use for Music in the Classroom.
We have writtin the content for week three on Bob's Google Page. Our weekley interview with a special guest will be hosted here at Musicbridge so check back for news on that webcast.

We will be posting the audio for our Kick-off Webcast tomorrow with all the links and chat room archives. 

Click on the attachment below to download the ed.voicethread pdf. 

Like many of us, I grew up around music. As a kid, I would sit at our family's monster Wurlitzer organ and pick out tunes from TV cartoons or movies I'd recently seen (Star Wars, Superman I, etc.). My father was very musical, and genetics played a role in my inheriting from him a pretty good 'ear' for sounding out a melody and its associated harmonies. I joined band in the 6th grade and was always challenging or being challenged for the lead trumpet spot. I later switched to baritone/euphonium, finally settling on trombone... the instrument that I took into my performing arts high school. I spent my first year in college as a music major, but I switched to humanities my sophomore year and never really participated in any sort of formal music education program after that. Then I came across Mr. Charles Atkins' Blues Lab while attending graduate school at Florida State.

Rock Our World  is just one link I am finding out about this week. With the start up of Musicbridges, we are discovering just how many resources there are. Education, musicians, technology and art blend together to create the links featured in this week's blog.  Explore some of the people who brought these links to me and look forward to their possible participation in Musicbridges!

1. This year several elementary school teachers--mainly Writing Project teachers--from California, Colorado, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, and the Philippines sent each other podcasts and poetry and responses on a weblog, Youth Radio: Connecting Youth Voices to the World. These teachers also created a space where young writers and voices can connect with news stories about their communities, their schools and their interests!

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