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Blogging, Blu-Ray, HD-Radio, And RSS, Podcast E11

Darren and Joseph are back on the air and kicking it hard! In this episode they talk about getting their new campaign to get 100 music educators blogging by 2009 among other great topics!

Original Air Date: 2/21/2008

Website: http://www.mustech.net

Podcasters: Dr. Joseph Pisano and Mr. Darren Morton

Episode 11’s Show:

• Joseph Makes a public apology for missing a podcast DATE!
• Mustech.net exceeds bandwidth and has to upgrade to 20 Gig a month!
• How about comments -don’t be afraid to comment on a blog!
• The campaing to get 100 Music Education Bloggers by 2009!
  Learn more about our campaign!
• Darren upgrades to HD-Radio for his FM station
• Blu-ray becomes the winner of the format wars
• What are RSS feeds and OPML feeds?
• What’s coming up in the next few podcasts? Find out.

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Mustech.net and the DigitalMusicEducator.wordpress.com have started a campaign to have 100 Music Educators blogging about music, education, and technology by January of 2009. We are inviting you to join our campaign and become an active blogger! This truly is the ground-floor of what IS the next wave of educational communication and thought/idea sharing for our fields (and every other one!).

There are a number of reasons that an educator will blog:

One of the technology shifts (change of paradigms) I am championing is the emergence into a web 2.0 world from a web 1.0 world (I know some of you techies loathe this concept: web 2.0… sorry, but it really is descriptive and useful).  That is, taking information from a single point of view and/or stale state, into an interactive, collaborative, and exciting state. 

In the old days… (say … pre-2001), the webmaster was the almighty “gate keeper” of knowledge.  They had to post something for people to know about and if it wasn’t posted…we’ll you never knew about it.  Now with informational bursting tools like RSS, blogs, wikis, and self-tagged informational items, users of web 2.0 technologies (whether they know they are using them or not) are finding themselves immersed in a matrix of connectivity, usability, and explorability (coining a new word here!).  Much of this new matrix is self-directed, self-expandable, community-directed, community-expandable, global in resources and scope,  and continually in a state of change.   That is, the end-user can literally change (for better or worse) the very information that is on the web and customize their queries so much that they only find exactly what they are looking for -provided it’s available.  If what you are looking for is not abailable, you can add it to the informational blob yourself by any one of the limitless avenues availble to you.

Three months ago I browsed right smack into the mother-lode of all web 2.0 directories.  AND… it’s a Web 2.0 directory of Web 2.0 Sites!  This site is truly amazing and full of incredibly useful, odd, wacky, and USELESS web 2.0 programs and sites.  But, it is addictive to search and gives you a great idea as to how much Web 2.0 “stuff” is “out there”. 

The name of the directory is Go2web20.net  and you’ll have to go to it to have any clue as to just how many and massive the web 2.0 software regime has become.   You can find direct here:

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The trend in information and communication technology is very exciting at this point in time, especially if you’re in the forefront of what’s happening.  I signed up for a Ning account over a year ago, but did not do much with it.  At the time, I was becoming heavily involved with WordPress.  I knew the time would come though, when I revisited Ning as it has so much to offer.

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Discussing things with future PMEA District 5 president Travis Weller , we began to formulate ideas as to how we could best build an interactive site that would allow the PMEA members a place to discuss and interact with each other in a semi-private setting.   After bouncing forth ideas, I suggest that we consider Ning as a possibility.   It may just be the “ticket”.

Ning will allow us to create a private community that will provide the opportunity for posting notes, discussing items in forums and provide an arena to share photos, videos and other types of media.    As of now, the only shortcomings that I see with it is that you can’t syndicate the “CURRENT ACTIVITY LOG” via RSS on a private NING page.   You also cannot have a public “face” to your private page from within NING, so an external web will still be required.  That being said it’s got about 90% of what we are looking for in an online social community platform and it’s FREE.

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