Why create web pages? www.northern.edu/wieland
  • Music educators have something to share with the world – or at least your pep band parents. Mr. Batie's Homepage!!!
  • Secondary Chords Tutorial – Anyone anywhere can access your online materials any time.
  • Students are facile web surfers and learn quickly online. Advantages and Limitations...
  • The Internet is "free" in the minds of students. tripod.com
  • You can register your own domain name: Network Solutions & InterNIC
  • Links offer efficient organization of information. Books
  • Links to your own web pages are usually not broken.
  • The Internet is both democratic and anarchic. Anyone can publish, including you.
  • The world wide web has truly made the world smaller.
  • We may one day use less paper and thereby use our brains more than our notebooks. We can also reduce office clutter and waste less time photocopying and filing paper. In the meantime, we can print web pages!
Text and Links
K-12 Resources For Music Educators – The Internet is an immense, user-friendly resource. A table of contents helps.
Free Piano Music – Your tidy and annotated "bookmarks" are more useful than a stranger's large list.
Courses (Schedules) & NSU Fine Arts Calendar – The web is an excellent location for documents which are subject to change.
Scale Quiz Grading Rubric & Courses (Syllabi) – Students want to know how grades are determined. Parents want to know your studio policies and all costs associated with lessons.
Piano Pages & Theory Things – Create online books with links to your web pages and outside sites.
Britten's Orchestration – Web pages can be projected as lecture slides.
Common Practice Part Forms & MUS 110 Basic Music Theory I --- Midterm Exam – Web pages can be printed as handouts.
Word processors (MS Word, WordPerfect) and spreadsheets (Excel, Quattro Pro) can create html files.
HTML Editors (FrontPage, Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver) are designed to create html documents.
Images
Piano Keys – The images were created with MS Paint and Photo Editor. (Click on the arrows.)
Playing a Jazz Lead Sheet – The music was created with Finale and edited with Photo Editor.
MIDI files
Oh Susanna & Blues in C – Music minus one. MIDI percussive instrument tone quality is usually good.
Polyphonic Dictations – MIDI files are small. They download quickly.
Classical Music Archives & Free Midi File Library – Many sites offer free MIDI files.
Notation programs (Finale, Sibelius) can create MIDI files.
Sequencers (Cakewalk, Cubase) are designed to create MIDI files.
HTML
To create more advanced web pages, learn HTML.
Begin by using templates: Arial Template  Verdana Template
2004 Calendars: July  August  September  October  November  December
2005 Calendars: January  February  March  April  May
Next, create your own code: CWRU Intro  U of Toronto Intro  W3C  Yale Style Manual
Background Colors  HTML Validator  HTML 4.01 Entities Reference
CSS: CSS, level 1  CSS Validator  Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial
JavaScript
Intervals w/o Accidentals Quizzes & Finger Numbers – Web pages can be dynamic.
All Piano Keys & Major Triads Tutorial – Web pages can be interactive.
Begin by inserting free code into your html files: JavaScript Source  Dynamic Drive
Next, create your own code: JavaScript Central  JavaScripter.net  User Input
Java
eMusicTheory.com – These free, online drills are as good as software.
Java resources online: Java Boutique
Flash
Musictheory.net – "Measures and Time Signature" and "Steps and Accidentals" feature animations and sound.
DSOkids  NY Phil Kidzone  SFS Kids – Kid friendly sites featuring Flash. (IE works best for me.)