artPad

This is one of my favorite sites for creating original artwork. In addition, you can do various things with your artwork like playback the drawing, include the drawing in a art.com gallery of other paintings, and view and modify other drawings in the art.com gallery. The interface is fantastic and it works great on the SMART Board. 

Bomomo

This is a very unique painting site that uses abstract paint brushes to create extremely imaginative and beautiful artwork. One of the things I like best about this site is the ability to save your artwork directly to a "jpg" file.

Mr. Picassohead

Believe it or not, the name of this says it all. You create your own Mr. Picassohead using various "picasso-like" features for face, hair, eyes, nose, etc. It's really quite engaging and definitely a lot of fun.

Repper

I'm really addicted to this site that allows you to use your own images to create patterns. This site is very easy to use and the patterns you create can be used as backgrounds. The site has a short video that shows you how easy it is to use Repper and take the pattern that you create and share them or use them in various ways.

Thisissand

This is sand. Yes it is. To use this site, you touch on the SMART Board and sand will begin pouring from where you are touching. You can change colors of the sand and you can drop the sand from anywhere on the screen. Click on the small box in the upper-left corner of the screen for instructions. One of the neatest things to do on this site is look at the gallery of images other people have created. Some of them are simply amazing.

http://www.toytheater.com/music.php

Free Resources

Below is a link to a copyright curriculum created by The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which comes divided into units with lesson plans, objectives, handouts, and even alignment to standards:

Teaching Copyright

http://www.teachingcopyright.org/curriculum/hs

Last Thursday was the 127th anniversary of the debut of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

Enjoy a wonderful performance of it at:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xobhy_tchaikovsky-overture-1812_music  

Click here to watch a video of students at City College, New York, talking about how MakeBeliefsComix.com helps them learn English. Their instructor, Tamara Kirson, was named The New York Times 2009 ESOL Teacher of the Year.

America the Beautiful - This video features a full performance of the song America, The Beautiful arranged for marimba ensemble and choir by Doug Edwards and Doug Johnson.

http://www.songsforteaching.com/

Character Development Songs: Teaching Values, Morals and Life Skills to Children and Teenagers (lyrics and music downloads avaiable)

Songs for Teaching Art Appreciation and Art Theory  (lyrics and music downloads avaiable)

Spanish Songs: Music for Learning the Spanish Language (lyrics and music downloads avaiable)

Songs that Teach Music Appreciation: Music Theory and Musical Instruments (lyrics and music downloads avaiable)