October 01, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: General Chat
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Well, only Three Months to go! The campaign has been long and hard but I know you will agree with me that it was/is worth it! There have been so many great ideas and thoughts that have come out of the ME Blogger folks over the last 9 months that it would be almost impossible to write them down…but we did and for all the world to read and see!!! :)
Any ME Blogger (or any serious blogger) will tell you that the act of actively blogging has changed their thought process, made them better at what they do, and has expanded their communicational sphere (Think Global here… and don’t forget local as well 
). I’m very proud to have founded/started this campaign and I feel that we will, indeed, make or goal of 100 ME Bloggers by January, 1st 2009! Keep those ideas, posts, and comments coming!!!
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September 02, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: New ME bloggers
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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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August 01, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: Music Education
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Welcome to the 2nd annual monthly edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival! The Music Blog Carnival was created and is maintained by Dr. J. Pisano of MusTech.net and Joel of SoYouWantToTeach.com in order to promote the great works being done by Music Education Bloggers across the Internet.The Music Education Blog Carnival is published on the 1st of every month and is a recognized member of the communities of blogs indexed by BlogCarnival.com. All writings submitted to the Music Education Blog Carnival are examined to ensure that they are valid, interesting, and related to our discussion topic(s).
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The August, 2008 Music Education Carnival of Blogs:
Site Hosting the Music Education Carnival of Blogs This Month:
http://mustech.net
Site Hosting the NEXT edition of the Music Education Carnival of Blogs:
http://amymburns.musiced.net
URL of this edition of the Music Education Carnival:
http://mustech.net/2008/08/01/august-2008-carnival-of-music-blogs
Host Comments:
I am very excited to host this edition of the carnival with over a dozen of VERY interesting articles and topics. There are a number of new contributers and bloggers in this edition. As in the last edition, posts were saught from any topic related to music education. This edition contains such a treasure trove of knowledge that I’m sure you will want to read them all in one sitting… if you can!
Joel and I are very excited about the tremendous growth in the field of music education bloggers and we (as well as many of our other good friends!) are working hard to continue to provide unique opportunities for them and continue to grow the music education blog community. The Music Education Blog Carnival is just one of those ways to continue to introduce ourselves to each other and the world through our writings about a topic we are passionate about!
If you are reading this and are an active music blogger, I encourage you to join our next carnival which will be hosted by the Elementary Music/Music Technology blog and current TI:ME president, Amy M. Burns. Also, please consider joining the ME Blogger campaign. The campaign started in January 2008 and is finishing on December 31st 2008. The goal…to identify and solicit 100 of the top music educator bloggers known in…, well, our known universe!
I wish you all the best on your upcoming school years and encourage you to “get back to blogging” as you all are “getting back to school!”. Keep the Faith and the great blogging coming!
~Dr. Joseph Pisano -Aug. 2008’s Music Education Blog Carnival Host
This Edition’s Posts (In alphabetical order of blogger):
- Owen Bradley presents August Rush and the state of music education
posted at The Digital Music Educator.
- Amy M. Burns presents SMART Board in the Elementary Music Classroom
posted at Elementary Music/Music Technology Blog.
- Eugene Cantera presents Thinking for a Change in Music Education
posted at Discover, Learn, Play.
- Joel presents The Art of Teaching Beginning Band
posted at So You Want To Teach?.
- Marilyn Johnson presents Teach Your Students to Strive for Excellence in Performance
posted at MJ’s Music Teaching Tips.
- Madeleine Begun Kane
presents Tempo, Tempo posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
- Mitesh presents How to Heighten your Creativity Through Music
posted at Invent Creativity.
- MsTris presents Fl Studio: Knockin Kicks | MsTrisMusic.Com
posted at MsTris.
- Leo Park presents Wiriting & Speaking Musically posted at I Know…I Think.
- Joseph Pisano presents Quizlet.com And My Conducting Mastery Group Flashcards
posted at Music, Technology and Education: Mustech.net.
- Stengel99 presents Beginning Percussionists: Every Teacher’s Dilemma
posted at Music Ed Lounge.
- Thomas J. West presents Practice Tip #1: Make a Practice Session Schedule
posted at Thomas J. West Music.
- Travis J. Weller presents Did NO ONE “listen” to the Grammy’s?
posted at Composing Like Mad.
- DB Williams presents The Joy of Musical Performance
posted at Religion, Politics and More.
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That concludes the August 2008 Edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival! I hope you’ve enjoyed it and we encourage you to visit AND comment about the posts you read from this carnival as you have time at the original author’s site and also at the host site!
Submit your blog article to the next edition of music education blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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July 26, 2008
By: J. Pisano
Category: Music Education
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I’m already getting in gear for band camp. We start on August 14th. It’s going to be a great year… I know this already because we’re taking the marching band and the jazz ensemble to Disney World! The kids are pretty excited about it…
It’s also time to think about re-tooling your blog and getting some of your ideas up. Why not jump start your blog with a couple of posts before you head back to school to get into the “swing of things” AND submit one to the Music Education Blog Carnival! The August blog carnival is almost ready to be posted and you still have a few days to get your submissions into me and Joel…so take advantage of them!
Submit your Music Education Blog Carnival entry to:
Here’s the link for your blog post submittal for the carnival:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_4443.html
I don’t have complete access to the back-end at the blog carnival site and will be working with Joel to see if we can have the site give more feedback to you when you submit your entries. All entries will be considered and most will be posted provided they meet the music education topic criteria for the carnival. Stay Tuned!
