ITT Students' World Wide Web Workshop · Harton School

• Click on the link GCSE Subjects, which leads to the NEAB website. We are going to find out what the Music email address is.
• Click on Music. You will find the Music email address at the top of the web page.
• Find out a syllabus number for the GCSE Music Syllabus. You may have to scroll down the page.

2. Useful Websites

• Return to the Music Page. Assess the relevance of the teaching ideas, lesson plans, worksheets and resources on offer for Music teachers on the two links Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers and Educate the Children.

• Return to the Music Page. Rob Jones has created the Music Teacher's Resource Site and billed it as the "premier UK music teacher's site." It includes links, equipment reviews and classroom projects. Assess the site for its appropriateness to secondary school Music teaching.

• Return to the Music Page. The Music Education Page is another of Rob Jones' websites. It is a page of links to many Music-related sites, including Midi Newsgroups and sources. Has this site a role in the Music curriculum?

Return to the Music Page. The NGfL Bradford LEA Music Resources website has many Music Education links in three categories, General, Primary and Secondary. How useful might this website in general, and its Secondary links in particular, be in your Music teaching?

Return to the Music Page. The portal Music and Special Educational Needs links to a number of sites offering resources and strategies for learners with difficulties and impairments. How useful might the links be in your Music teaching?

• Return to the Music Page and click on the Google link. Use Music as your keyword. How many hits were there? Print out the first page of hits.
• Now try out Yahoo, typing Music into the box. How does Yahoo present search results?
• What are the advantages and the disadvantages of each of these search engines?

• Return to the Music Page. If you had the Internet up and running, would you be able to locate and use a web resource in your teaching? Could you set your students a task which they might complete by referring to a web page or website?
• The Teacher Training Agency has published Initial Teacher Training (ITT) National Curriculum for the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in subject teaching: Exemplification materials. Access their ICT exemplification materials page and find out how to obtain the materials for Music.

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