MusTech.Net!

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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 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.

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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It’s time for another ME Blogger update.  I will be creating a compiled NEW MAY OPML File of all the bloggers by the end of next week.  Please look for it.  Ladies and Gentlemen, we are one blogger away from Fifty!.  

48. http://studiobeemusic.com
Rich Blenkinsopp - Studiobee Music
(His Blog Posts Are hard to find use this link to go to his RSS:
http://studiobeemusic.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=7)

49.  http://musicmiddleschoolandweb20.blogspot.com/
Susan Hurst - Music, Middle School and Web 2.0

50. Who will be number fifty?

There are a few of you who are on the “fence” about this, get off and join in today!  To find out more about the ME Blogger campaign and the latest updates visit here, bookmark this link!:
http://www.mustech.net/100-me-bloggers

If for some reason I’ve missed you please contact me again.  I have been posting changes to blog addresses as I receive them from all of you.   May is a great month to check out your other ME Bloggers and leave them a comment.  

Joel over at http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/ and I have been talking about starting a Music Education Blog Carnival for months now.   I have to say that, we are looking forward to starting this.  I am penciling in the date June 1st to start this among the ME Bloggers and any others that would like to take part in this.  Stay tuned for more information in the upcoming weeks.

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