Today, I am pleased to welcome Elizabeth Wellburn, author of the children’s book Echoes from the Square, for a special interview. What prompted your interest in writing this story about Vedran Smailovic, cellist of Sarajevo? My daughter Amy is a cellist, and we had heard about Mr. Smailovic’s actions on the internet. I believed that […]
Echoes From the Square
Recently, I received an e-mail from Elizabeth Wellburn, author of the colorful and captivating book Echoes From the Square by Elizabeth Wellburn. It is the beautiful story of cellist Vedran Smailovic, retold in this heartwarming children’s book. The video below is a recording of Ms. Wellburn reading the story, accompanied by images from the book […]
Win a Free Set of Animusic DVDs!
Have you seen these super cool music animations produced by Animusic? These highly creative animations are sure to mesmerize students, and are a fun resource for music teachers. In fact, Animusic has produced and made available free teacher guides for both of their DVDs. The guides were prepared by music teachers and correlate with items […]
Monday Mailbag – Practice Your Way to a Party
Could you expand on the Practice Your Way to a Party? I am looking for a good summer incentive program. Each of the students set their own goal for how much time they wanted to practice each week. Once they reached specific goals, they got to color in circles or triangles on a page at […]
100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher
Perhaps a bit of a pretentious title, but this list of 100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher does look like a nice collection of helpful thoughts and ideas. This list of videos contains a wide variety of content – from serious lectures to short clips from the Late Show. I […]
MTNA Conference Blogging
If any of you, like me, wish you could have been at the MTNA Conference in Atlanta, but couldn’t make it, you will definitely want to take a few minutes to visit Laura Lowe’s blog. She did some blogging at the conference, and has several additional posts up now with brief summaries from some of […]
