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.

#techtiptuesday 10 Supplementary Tab - Animated Musical Elements

May 07, 2024  /  Amy M. Burns

I'm Amy M. Burns, the creator behind amymburns.com and the author of "Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches." By day, I bring music to life as an elementary educator at Far Hills Country Day School. By night, I wear the hat of Community Coordinator at Midnight Music and also serve as an Elementary Music Consultant at MusicFirst. Get ready for exciting tech insights every Tuesday to enhance your music lessons with MusicFirst Elementary! Dive into this engaging K-5 program (soon expanding to include Preschool through grade 6) featuring captivating printable lessons, global melodies, instrumental music for bands, orchestras, and classroom instruments, as well as tools for crafting impressive movie soundtracks! Click the links below to secure your spot for a 30-day free trial and explore an outstanding curriculum with state-of-the-art resources. Let's make beautiful music together!

Supplementary's Tab Musical Elements

This week's #techtiptuesday features the Supplementary's Tab Musical Elements and Theory Animations, focusing on Animated Musical Elements. By exploring this, you will discover concise, animated videos covering eight musical elements: beat, dynamics, rhythm, pitch, tempo, chords, texture, and timbre. In my classes, I often utilize videos on beat, dynamics, tempo, chords, and texture. These animations are brief, straightforward, and perfect for even my youngest students. They are not too wordy so that when my students leave the classroom and are asked about the beat, they can tell you that they feel the beat of the music when they nod their heads or tap their feet to the steady speed of the music. 

I find these videos invaluable when I'm away and a substitute teacher is covering, as a designated station in my music room, or for reinforcing musical concepts previously taught and practiced. To enhance learning, I have created coloring sheets for the students to engage with the video, color a scene from it to remember the information, and take it home or share it on Seesaw for their families and caregivers to enjoy their music class achievements.

This is just a glimpse of what's in the Supplementary tab. Keep an eye out for more MFE tech tips on #TechTipTuesday next week as we delve deeper into MFE together!

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