Amy M. Burns

Elementary Music Technology and Integration

Amy M. Burns has taught PreK-grade 4 general music for over 25 years at Far Hills Country Day School (FH) (https://www.fhcds.org/). She also teaches grade 5 instrument class, directs the FH Philharmonic, is the Performing Arts Department Manager, and teaches privately in the after-school conservatory after being the director for over 20 years. She has authored four books and numerous articles on how to integrate tech into the elementary music classroom. She has presented many sessions on the topic, including four keynote addresses in TX, IN, St. Maarten, and AU. She is the recipient of the 2005 Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Teacher of the Year, the 2016 New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Master Music Teacher, the 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Awards. Her most recent publication, Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches (2020), published by Oxford University Press (OUP) is available from OUP and Amazon. Burns is also the Community Coordinator for Midnight Music (MMC) at https://midnightmusic.com/, the General Music Chair for NJMEA Board of Directors, and the Elementary Music Consultant for MusicFirst (https://www.musicfirst.com/), a company built by music educators for music educators, dedicated to helping music teachers and their students make the most of technology in the classroom.

 

Using Technology with Elementary music approaches

 
 
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first steps technology integration

Click the button below to access the manipulatives found in Chapter 3b.

 
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Kodály technology integration

Click the button below to access the manipulatives found in Chapter 4b.

 

orff shulwerk technology integration

Click the button below to access the manipulatives found in Chapter 5b.

 
 

Project Based Learning

Click the button below to access the manipulatives found in Chapter 6.

 

Websites

Here are the links listed throughout the entire book so that you can easily access each site. It includes links to everything in the book as well as additional files, like the one listed in the pop-up box with the instrument closet. It also has tutorials for apps like Seesaw and Flipgrid and includes extra activities add monthly!

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