Announcing The (Almost) Official List Of The 100 Music Education Bloggers Campaign
Well, it’s been long and hard but we did it! We were able to introduce 100, serious, Music Education Bloggers to the Internet world through the ME Blogger campaign in 1 year’s time! Congratulations to all of you and to all of us for making our campaign goal! Please note that I say this is the “Almost” Official list because I am still waiting to hear back from a couple of folks about retaining their blog in the list as we break forth into the 2009 year. As I put out the information about “us” into paper format, I want to ensure that everybody on the Official List is still actively blogging so that the readers will have a complete list of ME Bloggers that have been active throughout the year. I’ve had a couple of folks, through no real fault of their own, not able to be as productive as they’ve wanted so I’ve removed them from the list. Some of your “numbers” may change as I drop down the slots to account for this (sorry!). I will be celebrating (and inviting all of the ME bloggers to as well!) the 100 ME Blogger list in a number of ways in the coming month and the OFFICIAL, OFFICIAL LIST will be published on January 1st of 2009 with much fanfare. I was inundated with a number of blog requests for the final slots, so I wanted to make sure that I gave folks a “fair shake” as I looked at the contents of their blogs, the order they were submitted to me, and the number of related posts on the sites. In the end, I’ve had to not accept quite a few blogs that I probably would have accepted earlier in the year and for that I apologize but there were only 100 spots to fill. It’s my hope that there will be a thousand educated folks blogging about music, education, and technology in the very near future and sharing their expertise -for that, I will pass the torch of recording these bold, new ME bloggers to others to scribe and catalog into the “music history” books. Make no mistake though, the impacts made of these (us) 100 Music Education bloggers will be felt and “seen” in the blogosphere and Internet world for decades, perhaps, centuries to come as everything we write is being cataloged and recorded for those to read in the future. The beauty of teaching is the positive impact we have on our students -with the advent of the Internet, the entire world becomes a classroom. Our thoughts, as written in our blogs, will affect countless thoughts of others, whether we or they know it! As we approach the new year, I am going to encourage all of the ME bloggers to post at least one more time before the new year; perhaps write about what the ME blogger experience has meant to you professionally, self-growth-wise, and/or how it has impacted others around you. You cannot blog and not be effected by act of the “blogging” itself regardless of whether or not you have 1 or 1000 readers - I know I have. So without any further “a-do”, I present … drum roll please!… The (Quite possibly!) final of the 100 ME Bloggers: 94. http://jeane-metroyo.blogspot.com Jeane Goforth - Scrollworks and Metropolitian Youth Orchestras 95. http://www.oparp.blogspot.com Dr. Robert Phillips - The Opinionated Arpgeggist 96. http://www.wikyblog.com/CynthiaWunsch Cynthia Wunsch - The Unlikely Entrepreneur (Click the Blog Tab) 97. http://mineoladrama.blogspot.com Joe Owens - MHS Theater 98. http://andyzweibel.com Andy Zweibel - Music Musings and Other Randoms… 99. http://musicschoolsbc.blogspot.com/ Stephen Robb - Music Schools BC 100. http://paulbailey.us Paul Bailey - Paul Bailey’s Blog Please stop by and say hello to all these great new ME bloggers! and… Here is the “unofficial” Official list of the 100 ME bloggers:
- http://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://jsavage.org.uk/ 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://musicedtech.wordpress.com Barbara Freedman- Music Ed. Tech.
- http://tomrudolph.berkleemusicblogs.com Dr. Tom Rudolph- Make the Most of Notation Software
- http://teachingthewirechoir.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.com/ 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://bnceducation.blogspot.com Steve Raybould, Kriston Feldpausch -Band and Chorus PMS/PJHS
- 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 Greg 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
- http://www.guitarticles.net Tennyson Williams - Guitar Articles.Net
- http://creativekidmusic.wordpress.com Dan Thompson -Creative Kid Music
- http://educacionmusical.blogspot.com Oscar - Educacion Musical - Music Education (Our first, in Spanish, ME Blog!)
- http://rizzrazz.vox.com/ Dr. Eric Rasmussen - Rizz’s Blog
- http://reband.wordpress.com Mr. ReBand
- http://www.techtempo.com Brenda Muench - Tech. Tempo
- http://www.thomasjwestmusic.com/blog.htm Thomas J. West
- http://musictech4ed.edublogs.org Andrew Spang -MusicTech4Ed
- Click this link. (A very log blog URL…) Jon Ensminger -Pedaplus
- http://techtoysandtunes.blogspot.com Richard McCready - Tech Toys and Tunes
- http://downpressup.wordpress.com Derek -Downpressup
- http://listenlearnmusic.com Rachel Rambach - Listen and Learn
- http://jazzworks.wordpress.com Allan Perkins - Jazz Works
- http://msgallant.edublogs.org Alexandra Gallant - The Misadventures of a First Year Music Teacher
- http://www.acousticpath.com/blog Cameron Grant - Acoustic Path
- http://musicteachercafe.viviti.com/ Scott Ashby - Music Teacher’s Cafe
- http://www.frogstoryrecords.com/player_journal.html Stever Carter - Frog Story Records/Player’s Journal
- http://thirdstream.musiced.net Cary Stewart - Third-Stream Music Education
- http://michiganstatepianopedagogy.blogspot.com Derek Polischuk - Michigan State Piano Pedagogy
- http://fromthevoiceof.blogspot.com Elizabeth McDonald -From the Voice of…
- http://urbanmusiceducation.org Sarah Johnston -Urban Music Education
- http://musiced.jasoncrews.net/ Jason Crews - Music Education Resource Blog
- http://www.classicalguitarblog.net Christopher - Classical Guitar Blog
- http://willie42.globalteacher.org.au/ Andrew- Split Three Ways
- http://mjsheetmusictips.blogspot.com/ Marilyn Johnson - MJ’s Music Teaching Tips
- http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/ Brandon Pearce - Music Teacher’s Helper Blog
- http://jeane-metroyo.blogspot.com Jeane Goforth - Scrollworks and Metropolitian Youth Orchestras
- http://www.oparp.blogspot.com Dr. Robert Phillips - The Opinionated Arpgeggist
- http://www.wikyblog.com/CynthiaWunsch Cynthia Wunsch - The Unlikely Entrepreneur (Click the Blog Tab)
- http://mineoladrama.blogspot.com Joe Owens - MHS Theater
- http://andyzweibel.com Andy Zweibel - Music Musings and Other Randoms…
- http://musicschoolsbc.blogspot.com/ Stephen Robb - Music Schools BC
- http://paulbailey.us Paul Bailey - Paul Bailey’s Blog
