BP7_2009102_Web2.0_Tools-Music_Teacher's_Helper

Music Teacher's Helper (http://musicteachershelper.com) is a pretty cool tool. It is specifically designed for private studio teachers, but I can see a lot of ways that I could use it, too.
Billed as a "personal assistant" for music teachers, this is a great organizational tool.

Using this tool, teachers can:

• Create a website
• Utilize a calendar which can show student lessons, concert dates, field trips, etc.
• Teachers can give their student a username and password to log in and view this calendar.
• Teachers can add notes to specific events on the calendar
• Teachers can set up automatic event reminders and Music Teacher's helper will send an e-mail to selected students and parents
• Send mass e-mails
• Organize and manage a lending library
• Track repertoire that individual students (or ensembles) have played
• Store notes on students (they can be made private or e-mailed to students and parents).
• Manage money
• Lesson payments for private teachers
• Activity fee (rental fees, equipment, etc.) for classroom teachers
• Create invoices (You can even set up automatic invoicing.)

I think that this tool is pretty amazing. One little tool that can keep track of so much! As a traveling teacher, I can see this saving my life in more ways than one. It does require a paid subscription for more than 3 students, but I think I can use the free version--I will treat each of the schools I teach at as a "student."

© Music Teacher's Helper (http://musicteachershelper.com)

References:

Music teacher's helper. (2009). http://www.musicteachershelper.com