The tale of the traveling music teacher
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Inspiring students to practice regularly may not be an easy assignment for any music teacher, but Sarah Grenier found iPod, her MacBook, and iLife to be excellent motivators. Grenier records student performances on a digital camcorder, edits the footage in iMovie, then burns the finished video using iDVD so that students can enjoyâand critiqueâtheir own performances and share their progress with parents, staff, and other students. Like to hear how she uses iPod in the classroom?
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A young teacher spends $300 out of his own pocket to pull off the hands-on learning project.
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When Amy Lovell dropped off her son at school, she had to make sure the fifth-grader didn't dash off without his French horn. It was strapped to the back of her bicycle with a pair of bungee cords and rope.
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Songwriter Guy Chambers helps schools introduce lessons on music piracy and copyright.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A teacher heading to her first day at school this week was charged with drunken driving, but later returned to her class...
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Per il maestro c'e' disinteresse verso la musica
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By Bao Ong, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 17--MENDOTA HEIGHTS -- Jennifer Christensen's dream to navigate celestial bodies of the final frontier is far-fetched for a suburban teacher.
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By Mike Hughlett, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 8--Rob Balch sees himself as a music educator of sorts, and the thousands of guitarists who have flocked to his Web site would no doubt agree.
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Just five months ago, amateur opera  singer Paul Potts was mired in debt and selling cell phones in  Britain. Now he has a hit album and is due to tour the world.
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When a colleague recently sold me his iPod with more than 3,000 songs still on it, his musical tastes showed me a side of him I had never seen.
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Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for his school, one principal has outlasted his predecessors while producing surprising results.
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Parents who spend time and money to   teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study   shows young children who take music lessons have better   memories than their nonmusical peers.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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Parents who spend time and money to  teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study  shows young children who take music lessons have better  memories than their nonmusical peers.
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After almost 50 years of teaching  folk traditions in Chicago, the Old Town School of Folk Music  is making a bigger move into the world of music retailing.
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Music lessons can improve memory and learning ability in young children, research shows.