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A Bold New Year, The Official List Of The 100 Music Education Bloggers

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Welcome to 2009 and the Official List of the 100 Music Education Bloggers (ME Bloggers)! When I first announced that I would be setting a goal to have 100 Music Education Experts Blogging by January 1st of 2009 back in December of 2007, some believed it wouldn’t actually happen… but it did! I believed from the start that I/we would be able to start a community of Music Education Bloggers in only a year’s time; but, I can tell you that the road was a long one complete with its “ups and downs”…but the road less traveled usually is the one with the most benefits at the end of the journey. This campaign certainly has been a benefit not only to those that are included in the list, but every single person that reads what they are writing about.

There were a number of aspects of the campaign that I wanted to instill in the essence of the ME Blogger Campaign. First, I wanted to build a community of Music Education Expertsthat would take advantage of the Web 2.0 platform and start a community that would allow them to share their expertise with each other and the world. My hope for the community, and the community that builds upon those of the 100 ME bloggers, is that we continue to have an open a dialog about our profession, mission, and the importance of music in the daily lives of people, not only among our ourselves, but among all those that come across our writings, freely, with each other.

Secondly, I wanted to build a community that was non-exclusive, not completely ivory tower, not completely practice oriented, not completely acting educators, nor exclusive of those in the so-called “fringe areas” of acceptable music genres - all types of music are acceptable for learning, discussion, and enrichment. This community would also not be centered around one country, nor any particular gender or ethnicity. With this in mind, you will see that the 100 ME Bloggersare made up of established professionals, professors, doctors, teachers, music merchants, performers, practitioners, and even a few inspiring music students. The ME Bloggers comprise of multiple ethnicities, multiple diversities, and are from varying geographical locations and all of them have one ideal in common with one another: the pursuit of the application of music for the betterment and enrichment of the lives of people everywhere!

Lastly, I wanted to show how easy it is to utilize the Blog platform as technological means to multiple ends:

Reflection, Introspect, & Thought Crystallization
Sharing knowledge with their students, peers or the world (global conversations)
Contributing to a larger database of information (active research)
Writing Practice (There is a tree-ware book in all of us!)
Creative Outlets
Digital Mentoring
Active Sharing of Media (Pictures/Photos/Webcasts/Podcasts/Vidcasts)
Create a network of peers and colleagues
Advertise your concerts, clinics, yourself, or whatever (publicity)

I hope that those of you who are able to gain from the fruits of the efforts of the 100 ME Bloggers come to know the real truth of the grass-roots, and pioneering effort that is accomplished by the existence of this campaign and the works of those that are a part of it. Regardless, of whether or not those that are a part of this campaign (or those not part of the campaign that are giving of their time and music expertise freely) blog for another year or 50 more years (or migrate to the forthcoming Web 3.0 phenomenon), the digital imprint of this campaign is cast in binary and has been unleashed on the networked world. In a digital world full of “mis-information” of “no-information” about our field, the void of “better” and free information, is starting to populate the long un-filled void… baby steps… In the months to come, it is my hope to write more about how to continue to grow as a Music Blogging/ Web 2.0 Integrated Community. In the short future, I will be posting a number of ways to keep track of all of the information being put out by the 100 ME Bloggers and show how this tremendous resource can be contained and utilized efficiently by anyone who would like to glean the gems that are coming out, daily, by the ME Bloggers. To answer a few questions up front that some of you may be asking now the ME Blogger Campaign is over, I will not be extending this list in the future as the number of Music Education Bloggers has exploded with the excitement that has/is being generated by the pioneers on this list. I will, however, continue to highlight, encourage, all the “newbie” ME Bloggers through posts and direction. I also can tell you that any of the ME Bloggers will help you get started if you ask them. If you are thinking about starting a Music Blog or Website for any reason, don’t wait, contribute today by starting your own. I intend to make one more official graphic for the 100 ME Bloggers so that they can post it on their sites. It is also my intention to take this year and highlight the 100 ME Bloggercampaign in a number of journal articles and written publications. I will post the availability of these as I become aware of them. In addition, I plan on speaking at a number of clinics and music education conferences about this project as well…I’ll post my upcoming venues soon at MusTech.Net. It is with both humbleness and a sense of pride that I present to the world, the Official List of the 100 ME Blogger Campaign! Please congratulate them, visit them, comment on their sites AND, BY ALL MEANS, please reprint this list on your own BLOG or Website! If you have a chance, say hello here as well in the comment section below… THE OFFICIAL LIST OF THE 100 MUSIC EDUCATION BLOGGER CAMPAIGN 2008-2009:

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://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.blogspot.com/ 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
http://edubuzz.org/blogs/alancoady/ Alan Coady - Alan Coady’s Musical Blog

Please visit them today, congratulate them, and learn from what they have to offer as they do from each other and others like them. Best Wishes for a Happy and Peaceful New Year,

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