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The following post is an official call for MUSIC EDUCATION BLOGGERS.  Not unlike a call for papers, this post announces a call for the submission of bloggers to become part of our ME Blogger Campaign.   

Please feel free to use any or all of this post in any way possible to promote this IMPORTANT campaign.  You may also download a PDF of the Call for Music Education Bloggers directly from our eSnips account for including in any electronic dispersion of this campaign.

Below starts the announcement of the CALL FOR MUSIC EDUCATION BLOGGERS:

2008-2009 Mustech.Net’s International Initiative:

Call For Music Education Bloggers

Dr. Joseph M. Pisano and Mr. Owen S. Bradley began/announced an initiative at the Florida Music Educator’s Conference (FMEA), in January of this year, asking music educators to create 100 new music education related weblogs (blogs) by January of 2009. The goal of these new blogs would be to become part of the music education information repository on the internet and begin to provide accurate, timely, and needed information about music and the music profession to other colleagues, musicians, ensembles, educators, and the general population.

The Music Education Blogger (ME Blogger) initiative is global in nature and music educators from throughout the world are invited to participate and create blogs about their particular interests. Blog content may very from specifics like, Kodaly, Orff, Dalcroze, elementary choirs, or classroom management to global topics like elementary music, secondary music, instrumental music, the entire music program, etc.

Please note this Call for Bloggers is only accepting non-commercial, non-static, blog-style websites for submission and inclusion. If you are already blogging about music education, music education technology, music performances, or other related music education topics, please consider joining our campaign and becoming an official ME blogger and have your site listed with the other experts of this initiative.

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I’ve modified my pagecast on pageflakesto include all the RSS feeds of all the ME bloggers. This was my first simple (read non-time consuming) step to provide an aggregate of all our feeds and a place for all of you ME blogger newbies to go to keep track of everyone else’s posts.   This is an online resource and can be read from anywhere you have an active internet connection.

I will be adding new ME Bloggers to the pagecast as I have time.  I also intend on modifying musicednews.com to become an online aggregate RSS feed generator of all the ME blogger feeds into ONE single RSS feed that anyone can use on their sites or sidebars.  If you haven’t checked out musicednews.com, it’s worth a look.

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Well… I’m not sure how often I am going to update the list, certainly once per month, but I am going to make note of new ME bloggers every time I a few become known to me.  This is important so that we can become aware of the new ME bloggers and support each other though blogroll links, comments, and encouragement.

I am so excited to see the recent “flurry” of activity in the Music Education “Blog World” due to the impact of our 100 ME Blogger campaign… it is so nice to see real, well though, helpful, and insightful comments on others blogs other than Travis, James, Owen, a few others, and myself!   If you are a ME blogger, I encourage you to comment on others sites as often as you can.  Join our conversation and become part of the “global conversation” about all things music, education, and technology.   If you’ve been thinking about jumping in to our ME blogger campaign…don’t wait.  We have promised to help you get started and get on your way… Check out our official ME blogger campaign information here:
http://www.mustech.net/100-me-bloggers/

My next post will include a new aggregation online site of all the ME bloggers and will provide a way for all of you ME bloggers to “keep” up with each others activities.   Stay tuned and PLEASE let me know you stopped by! :)  ..even the folks at mustech.net need encouragement from time to time!

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