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 The Me Blogger Campaign Hits 80!   Please welcome the following ME Bloggers to our campaign! 

77.  Andrew Spang  -MusicTech4Ed
http://musictech4ed.edublogs.org

78.  Jon Ensminger -Pedaplus
Click this link.   (A very log blog URL…)

79. Richard McCready - Tech Toys and Tunes
http://techtoysandtunes.blogspot.com

80. Derek  -Downpressup
http://downpressup.wordpress.com

Please take a moment to visit these folks and say hello!  

ME BLOGGERS TAKE NOTE: I am now current on sending the ME Bloggers their NAXOS Library codes, if you haven’t received yours please contact me via the contact tab above. 

Want to read more about the Naxos Library and Mustech.nets Partnership?  Check out this post and podcast!

• http://mustech.net/2008/03/31/free-naxos-online-music-subscriptions-for-the-hard-working-me-bloggers
• http://mustech.net/2008/03/25/podcast-naxos-online-streaming-library

Also, as stated in previous posts, especially now since we’re back in school, I will be checking to make sure if we’re all still keeping our ME Blogger Pledge.  If you haven’t posted in a while and/or commented start today by saying hello here and getting your next post ready for the October Music Education Carnival which is being held by Travis J. Weller at tjweller.wordpress.com.

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The countdown continues…  We are now officially up to 76 Music Education Bloggers!  There are only 4 months to go in this campaign and we are already over 75% of our target goal of 100 Music education bloggers.   I am very pleased with the progress of this campaign and personally, have been working, as much as I can and very hard with this ambitious undertaking.   For every blog that I realease as a “ME Blogger” there are 5 that are SPAM, not related, totally whacky, or simply not what we’re looking for as an official ME blog. 

ME Bloggers take note: In preparation for the publiciity and articles that I am going to be writing and hope to be publishing via “snail” methods after the official end of the campaign, I am going to be going back through and checking to see if all the ME Bloggers are remaining true to our campaign pledges!  Nothing fancy, but I don’t want to have  ME blogger listed that is not active or currently inactive as we approach January 1st, of 2009…the deadline.  What do I mean by this?

Here’s what I mean:  As a ME blogger, we pledged to “post regularly” about a topic that is “interesting to you, your students, the music audience as whole, etc. -that is related to music education and/or music technology in a classroom environment… Along those lines, we’re not expecting everyone to blog everyday, every week, or even every couple of weeks, but we need ME Bloggers that are actively blogging as often as they can and regurarly…

We agreed not to “covet” all of our materials and share many of them, freely with the world…This is part of the “Global conversation” that I keep sharing with you all…  Don’t forget to comment and get in on others conversations!!!   If you’re a ME Blogger make sure you take advantage of the Carnival that Joel and I started just so we can continue to “get the word” out about Music and Education!  Amy Burns just finished a great carnival, if you missed it -check it out at her site and see what the fuss is all about!

You can find out all of the 100 Music Education Blogger Information, ideas, goals, et. here:
http://mustech.net/100-me-bloggers  Check it out today and join or re-energize yourself!

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Well, I didn’t want it to be this way, but I fell behind, way behind with regard to the ME Blogger Campaign.   I am going to begin to rectify that with this post and start and all out re-freshed campaign to GET OUR 100 ME Bloggers by the January 1st, 2009 Deadline!

My sincerest apologies for those who have waited to be included on the official ME Blogger list.  Believe me, I may have accidently missed/misplaced someone who has requested to be included in the last weeks.  If I did, please renotify me of your interest and your site and I’ll check them out.

The Bloggers New From The Summer Are ….  Drum Roll Please!!!!

62. http://www.howtopractise.com (yes it’s a “s”, it’s an English spelling)
Mike Saville - How To Practise

63. http://www.free2create.com/blog
Valerie Kampmeier - Free 2 Create

64. http://musicmattersblog.com
Natalie Wickham - Music Matters Blog

65. http://theresawhite.edublogs.org
Theresa White - Education In Music

66. http://africlassical.blogspot.com
William Zick - Africlassical

67. http://discoverlearnplay.blogspot.com
Eugene Cantera - Discover, Learn, Play (MusickED.com’s Blog)

68. http://mstrismusic.com
Ms. Tris - MsTrisMusic.com

69. http://www.learn-theory-music.com/learn-theory-music-blog.html
Julian Partridge - Learn Theory Music Blog

70. Tennyson Williams - Guitar Articles.Net
http://www.guitarticles.net

71.  Dan Thompson -Creative Kid Music
http://creativekidmusic.wordpress.com

72. Oscar - Educacion Musical - Music Education (Our first, in Spanish, ME Blog!)
http://educacionmusical.blogspot.com

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Don’t forget to participate in the Music Education Blog Carnival this month.  It will be published on August 1st!  We have had a number of submissions, but would still like more (a whole bunch)!   To participate in this blog carnival, you can follow the following link (it’s super easy!!!):

Here’s the link for your blog post submittal for the carnival:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_4443.html. 

Dust off one of your old blog posts (A brilliant one!) or create a new one, but don’t miss being in this edition!   I know it’s hard with the summer to blog and keep up with all this web 2.0 stuff, especially for teachers.  Lord knows I’m having a time keeping it all together this month as well!  I’m building a deck on my house (Yes myself!!!) and working on two web projects (top secret!) and trying to get ready for the college marching season (Go Wolverines!)…   With all of this, even I’m having trouble keeping up with the ME Blogger project and emails…I’ll get back to you all soon, I promise! AND will have the new ME Bloggers listed by the end of next week.

For this Music Education Blog Carnival edition, you may choose any music education related topic to be part of this project.  If you don’t have a blog, become a ME Blogger today!!! Check out this link: http://www.mustech.net/100-me-bloggers and then visit the carnival!!!

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