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January 01, 2009
By: J. Pisano
Category: New ME bloggers
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Me Blogger 2009!
Welcome to 2009 and the Official List of the 100 Music Education Bloggers (ME Bloggers)! When I first announced that I would be setting a goal to have 100 Music Education Experts Blogging by January 1st of 2009 back in December of 2007, some believed it wouldn’t actually happen… but it did! I believed from the start that I/we would be able to start a community of Music Education Bloggers in only a year’s time; but, I can tell you that the road was a long one complete with its “ups and downs”…but the road less traveled usually is the one with the most benefits at the end of the journey. This campaign certainly has been a benefit not only to those that are included in the list, but every single person that reads what they are writing about.
There were a number of aspects of the campaign that I wanted to instill in the essence of the ME Blogger Campaign. First, I wanted to build a community of Music Education Expertsthat would take advantage of the Web 2.0 platform and start a community that would allow them to share their expertise with each other and the world. My hope for the community, and the community that builds upon those of the 100 ME bloggers, is that we continue to have an open a dialog about our profession, mission, and the importance of music in the daily lives of people, not only among our ourselves, but among all those that come across our writings, freely, with each other.
Secondly, I wanted to build a community that was non-exclusive, not completely ivory tower, not completely practice oriented, not completely acting educators, nor exclusive of those in the so-called “fringe areas” of acceptable music genres - all types of music are acceptable for learning, discussion, and enrichment. This community would also not be centered around one country, nor any particular gender or ethnicity. With this in mind, you will see that the 100 ME Bloggersare made up of established professionals, professors, doctors, teachers, music merchants, performers, practitioners, and even a few inspiring music students. The ME Bloggers comprise of multiple ethnicities, multiple diversities, and are from varying geographical locations and all of them have one ideal in common with one another: the pursuit of the application of music for the betterment and enrichment of the lives of people everywhere!
Lastly, I wanted to show how easy it is to utilize the Blog platform as technological means to multiple ends:
- Reflection, Introspect, & Thought Crystallization
- Sharing knowledge with their students, peers or the world (global conversations)
- Contributing to a larger database of information (active research)
- Writing Practice (There is a tree-ware book in all of us!)
- Creative Outlets
- Digital Mentoring
- Active Sharing of Media (Pictures/Photos/Webcasts/Podcasts/Vidcasts)
- Create a network of peers and colleagues
- Advertise your concerts, clinics, yourself, or whatever (publicity)
I hope that those of you who are able to gain from the fruits of the efforts of the 100 ME Bloggers come to know the real truth of the grass-roots, and pioneering effort that is accomplished by the existence of this campaign and the works of those that are a part of it. Regardless, of whether or not those that are a part of this campaign (or those not part of the campaign that are giving of their time and music expertise freely) blog for another year or 50 more years (or migrate to the forthcoming Web 3.0 phenomenon), the digital imprint of this campaign is cast in binary and has been unleashed on the networked world. In a digital world full of “mis-information” of “no-information” about our field, the void of “better” and free information, is starting to populate the long un-filled void… baby steps…
In the months to come, it is my hope to write more about how to continue to grow as a Music Blogging/ Web 2.0 Integrated Community. In the short future, I will be posting a number of ways to keep track of all of the information being put out by the 100 ME Bloggers and show how this tremendous resource can be contained and utilized efficiently by anyone who would like to glean the gems that are coming out, daily, by the ME Bloggers.
To answer a few questions up front that some of you may be asking now the ME Blogger Campaign is over, I will not be extending this list in the future as the number of Music Education Bloggers has exploded with the excitement that has/is being generated by the pioneers on this list. I will, however, continue to highlight, encourage, all the “newbie” ME Bloggers through posts and direction. I also can tell you that any of the ME Bloggers will help you get started if you ask them. If you are thinking about starting a Music Blog or Website for any reason, don’t wait, contribute today by starting your own.
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December 16, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: New ME bloggers
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Well, it’s been long and hard but we did it! We were able to introduce 100, serious, Music Education Bloggers to the Internet world through the ME Blogger campaign in 1 year’s time! Congratulations to all of you and to all of us for making our campaign goal!
Please note that I say this is the “Almost” Official list because I am still waiting to hear back from a couple of folks about retaining their blog in the list as we break forth into the 2009 year. As I put out the information about “us” into paper format, I want to ensure that everybody on the Official List is still actively blogging so that the readers will have a complete list of ME Bloggers that have been active throughout the year.
I’ve had a couple of folks, through no real fault of their own, not able to be as productive as they’ve wanted so I’ve removed them from the list. Some of your “numbers” may change as I drop down the slots to account for this (sorry!).
I will be celebrating (and inviting all of the ME bloggers to as well!) the 100 ME Blogger list in a number of ways in the coming month and the OFFICIAL, OFFICIAL LIST will be published on January 1st of 2009 with much fanfare. I was inundated with a number of blog requests for the final slots, so I wanted to make sure that I gave folks a “fair shake” as I looked at the contents of their blogs, the order they were submitted to me, and the number of related posts on the sites. In the end, I’ve had to not accept quite a few blogs that I probably would have accepted earlier in the year and for that I apologize but there were only 100 spots to fill.
It’s my hope that there will be a thousand educated folks blogging about music, education, and technology in the very near future and sharing their expertise -for that, I will pass the torch of recording these bold, new ME bloggers to others to scribe and catalog into the “music history” books. Make no mistake though, the impacts made of these (us) 100 Music Education bloggers will be felt and “seen” in the blogosphere and Internet world for decades, perhaps, centuries to come as everything we write is being cataloged and recorded for those to read in the future. The beauty of teaching is the positive impact we have on our students -with the advent of the Internet, the entire world becomes a classroom. Our thoughts, as written in our blogs, will affect countless thoughts of others, whether we or they know it!
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December 05, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: New ME bloggers
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Hello all,
If you’ve been following along at mustech.net, you know I have two major concerts coming up TODAY. Both the 19 piece Grove City Stage Band and 20 piece Grove City College Jazz Ensemble will be performing their 5thAnnual Winter/Christmas Jazz Concerts at 8:00 p.m. today at the Pew Fine Arts Center in Grove City. Our show is amazing both sonically and visually and takes an incredible chunk of my time to put together both musically and as productions. This year one of the senior college students, Matt Ulrich, has added an incredible snow fall effect to our cyclorama and is a must see!; couple that with all the other amazing stuff we do with lights and movements and well,…it’s AWESOME.
The real point of this post was to let you all know that I’ve received over 10 submissions for the last 5 spots on the ME blogger list and I haven’t had the time to get back to everyone yet so I’m posting to let anyone who may still be interested in submitting know that I’ve CLOSED the Blog submissions for the Official 100 ME Blogger campaign. The last entries we’re all pretty good at first glance, so I’m going to take some extra time to determine which of those have been blogging the longest, content areas, most, etc.
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December 01, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: New ME bloggers
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Note: Blog Submission for the 100 ME Bloggers is officially closed! Please read this post: http://mustech.net/2008/12/05/blog-submission-is-officially-closed#more-928
Only 31 days to go until the official end of the ME Blogger Campaign. It’s been long and hard, but definitely worth it. The number of folks blogging about music education has exploded since my challenge went out -not quite a year ago to the day. I’m very excited to see where this will go in the years to come.
Joel has become the first ever “Music Education Blogger” Historian. You can find his well done list about the work of the seminal Music Education Bloggers here: http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/a-partial-timeline-of-music-education-blogging/
I think people will look back and find out that it was us, “the few the proud” the ME bloggers, that started an online revolution about sharing “good”, “accurate”, and “better” knowledge about our music profession and music in general -freely, with anyone with an Internet connection. I’m sure of it! -as the Internet searches already are showing the results of our labours in their various, and many, search result sections!
Now, there are only 5 spots left to become immortalized (well..not really!) as one of the 1st 100 OFFICIAL Music Education Bloggers. Don’t wait to let me know about your Music Education realated Web site. Contact me today either by commenting here or in our contact section above.
Please welcome, visit, and say hello by commenting on the following ME Blogger sites or by commenting here!
91. Jason Crews - Music Education Resource Blog
http://musiced.jasoncrews.net/
92. Christopher - Classical Guitar Blog
http://www.classicalguitarblog.net
93. Andrew- Split Three Ways
http://willie42.globalteacher.org.au/
94. Marilyn Johnson - MJ’s Music Teaching Tips
http://mjsheetmusictips.blogspot.com/
95. Brandon Pearce - Music Teacher’s Helper Blog
http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/
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