What's the Secret to Effective Classroom Management?

I think we all benefit from revisiting and revising our classroom management skills from time to time. This article from edutopia.com, has a lot of great information. Its main purpose is to express what we already know - that effective classroom management stems from our positive and caring relationships with our students. It goes further to explain the psychological and sociological reasons for this. There are also a few helpful videos at the end of the article, with 'tips of the trade' that can be used in any classroom setting.

The sound of two black holes colliding.

In this fascinating TEDtalk, Jenna Levin explains how black holes bang on space-time like a drum, and plays examples of what physicists predict this will sound like. She also predicts that one day we will have instruments sensitive enough to pick up the echoes of the "Big Bang."

Free Tuner!

I found this free tuner - this would be great to have up on the SMARTboard.

School Music is not a "frill."

This is a timely article for me, as the governor in my state has proposed a 10% cut to education. If we cut fine arts, sports, busses, middle schools, everyone's salaries by 5.25% and got rid of a substantial number of our administrators ... we would still not arrive at 10 million.

http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20113/12154/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+violinistcom+%28Violinist.com%29

Cool Music Games!!

These look like some really cute music games that could be used on your SMARTboards!!
I love the parrot echo game.

http://trainer.thetamusic.com/en