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:
https://mustech.net/100-me-bloggers Check it out today and join or re-energize yourself!
As we start a new school year, I invite you to read a ponder a few posts that link the “Spirit of the Olympics” to what we do as Music Educators written by fellow ME Bloggers. I encourage you to think about what was written and comment about them as you have time:
Richard McCready- Tech Toys and Tunes:
ADHD kids listen to music -shocker!
Travis J. Weller – Composing Like Mad:
Lessons Learned from Michael Phelps
Dr. Joseph Pisano – MusTech.net:
Citius, Altius, Fortius – Faster, Higher, Stronger…
Take a moment to reflect, learn, and even been inspired to be a better teacher, friend, roll model, or whatever it might be. Keep those ME Blogger Posts and Comments Coming!!!! Maybe now is the time to make some “New Year Resolutions”…. and keep them! It’s probably a better time for teachers anyway!
Without further prologue… Here is the current list of Music Education Bloggers (Please say hello to the new folks and re-acquaint yourselves with the veterans! and don’t forget to repost this list!!!):
- https://www.mustech.net
Dr. Joseph M. Pisano- MusTech.net - http://digitalmusiceducator.wordpress.com
Owen Bradley -The Digital Music Educator - http://etobiasblog.musiced.net
Evan Tobias- Catalysts & Connections - http://musiced.about.com/
Espie Estrella -About Music Education - http://jamesfrankel.musiced.net/
Dr. James Frankel- Music Technology in Education - http://weblog.siba.fi/msalavuo
Dr. Miikka Salavuo- Music Education, Technology & Social Media - http://pwhitfield.edublogs.org
Pete Whitfield- e-Learning for Music - http://www.musicedmagic.com
Chad Criswell- Music Ed. Magic - http://81.179.47.224/jon/
Dr. Jonathan Savage- Jonathan Savage - http://musictechforme.com/
V. Keith Mason- Music Tech. for Me. - http://tjweller.wordpress.com
Travis J. Weller- Composing Like Mad - http://mystro2b.edublogs.org/
Ken Pendergrass- Music is Not for Insects - http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/
Joel- So You Want to Teach - http://stengel99.wordpress.com/
Steve Engel- Music Ed. Lounge - http://fsharpbflat.wordpress.com/
Linda Granite- Bb, F# - http://doublebassblog.org
Jason Heath- Double Bass Blog - http://musicisfree.ning.com/
Robert Brannan- The Music is Free - http://dvzmix.wordpress.com/
Deborah Valdivia-Zwolinski- DVZ’s Mix - http://choirteachers.blogspot.com/
Kyle Gardner- Choir Teachers - http://www.pauldraper.org
Paul Draper- Draper’s Blogspot - http://johnwilborn.wordpress.com
John Wilborn- John Wilborn’s Weblog - http://iknowithink.blogspot.com
Leo Park- I Know…I Think - http://gluedtothestring.blogspot.com
Stan Haskins- Glued to the String - http://edgroves.wordpress.com
Edgar Groves- Edgar Groves’ Weblog - http://musicedtech.wordpress.com
Barbara Freedman- Music Ed. Tech. - http://tomrudolph.berkleemusicblogs.com
Dr. Tom Rudolph- Make the Most of Notation Software - http://wirechoir.dlewisweb.com
Dale Lewis- Teaching the “Wire Choir” - http://docandry.edublogs.org
Dr. Kevin Andry-Dr. Andry’s Band Blog - http://sperham.wordpress.com
Steffany Perham- Perham’s Prattlings - http://alexruthmann.com
Alex Ruthmann- Alex Ruthmann’s Blog - http://www.beatechie.edublogs.org
Carol Broos- Be A Techie:) - http://musicanthology.org
Geejay Arrioloa and Jeffrey Langlois -Music Anthology - http://southiowamusiced.blogspot.com/
Michael Compton -Southern Iowa Music Education Network - http://qachsband.edublogs.org/
Eric Wright- QACHS’s Band Blog - http://jonathanfilbert.com/blog/
Jonathan Filbert -Sound On ~Music and Music Education - http://alleyjazz13.wordpress.com/
Alison Hulihan- Marching Music - http://rogerwhaley.blogspot.com
Roger Whaley -The BandEd ToolShed - http://mgrondin.edublogs.org
Martha Grondin -Artful, Tuneful, Beatful - http://percussioneducationonline.com
Kevin Tuck -Percussion Education Online - http://www.musicteachersblog.com
Janice Tuck -The Music Teacher’s Blog - http://pmsbnc.blogspot.com
Stever Raybould -Band and Chorus PMS/PJHS - http://mdberesik.wordpress.com
Matthew Beresik -Music, Life, Education, Technology (M-LET) - http://musicedshare.wordpress.com
Kyle Krstolic -Music Education Share - http://musicedforall.blogspot.com
Dan Leeman -Music Education for All - http://amymburns.musiced.net
Amy Burns -Elementary Music/Music Technology - http://www.music.erinnwrobel.com
Erinn Wrobel – Notes From The Mitten - http://dougbutchy.wordpress.com
Doug Butchy – Confessions of a Band Director - http://studiobeemusic.com/mutech
Rich Blenkinsopp – Studiobee Music - http://musicmiddleschoolandweb20.blogspot.com/
Susan Hurst – Music, Middle School and Web 2.0 - http://www.kirki.co.uk
Dr. Phil Kirkman -Music Education and Technology Blog - http://tufsdblogs.org/winze
Ann Winze- WI Orchestra - http://thirddivision.org
David DeVoto – Third Division - http://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com
Dr. Chris Foley – The Collaborative Piano Blog - http://bandguys.wordpress.com
Matthew Pelandina and Mike Lewis – The BandGuys’ blog - http://tanbur.wordpress.com
David French -The Music Education Blogspot - http://musicteachers911.blogspot.com
Larry Marra -Music Teachers 911 - http://www.pianoteacherblog.com
Rebecca Brown -Piano Teacher’s Retreat - http://wordtogo.wordpress.com
Steve Mugglin -Creativity and Songwriting in Music Education - http://totalmusiceducation.blogspot.com
Gary Albing -Total Music Education - http://teachingmusicbs.com
Ben Baker -Teaching Music - http://susanadavis.com/blog
Susan Davis -Music Technology Musings - http://www.howtopractise.com (yes it’s a “s”, it’s an English spelling)
Mike Saville – How To Practise - http://www.free2create.com/blog
Valerie Kampmeier – Free 2 Create - http://musicmattersblog.com
Natalie Wickham – Music Matters Blog - http://theresawhite.edublogs.org
Theresa White – Education In Music - http://africlassical.blogspot.com
William Zick – Africlassical - http://discoverlearnplay.blogspot.com
Eugene Cantera – Discover, Learn, Play (MusickED.com’s Blog) - http://mstrismusic.com
Ms. Tris – MsTrisMusic.com - http://www.learn-theory-music.com/learn-theory-music-blog.html
Julian Partridge – Learn Theory Music Blog - Tennyson Williams – Guitar Articles.Net
http://www.guitarticles.net - Dan Thompson -Creative Kid Music
http://creativekidmusic.wordpress.com - Oscar – Educacion Musical – Music Education (Our first, in Spanish, ME Blog!)
http://educacionmusical.blogspot.com - Dr. Eric Rasmussen – Rizz’s Blog *
http://rizzrazz.vox.com/ - Mr. ReBand *
http://reband.wordpress.com - Brenda Muench – DiscomBlogulated! *
http://muench.edublogs.org - Thomas J. West *
http://www.thomasjwestmusic.com/blog.htm
* New This Posting!
Only 24 Slots left!!! Please re-post this list on your website if you are a ME Blogger!
Check out my first issue of my ME Blog Review. I’ll be visiting the other ME Bloggers and saying a few words periodically:
http://www.thomasjwestmusic.com/blog.htm?blogentryid=3933949
Dear Joseph,
I am delighted to be part of the ME Bloggers campaign, and also very honoured to be featured in the current Music Technology ‘carnival’. Should you, your colleagues and students have any suggestions for the future development of TANBUR MUSIC EDUCATION LINKS http://www.webng.com/tanbur
and the blogspot
http://tanbur.wordpress.com/
I shall be very pleased to receive them.
Many thanks to Naxos and MusTech.net for the subscription.
With best wishes David French
Teacher of Music, Elgin High School, Moray, Scotland
Thanks for the great resources you’ve got here. It looks like I have my work cut out for me, following all of these links and seeing what I come up with.
I’ll start adding some of these links to my page ASAP.
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