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Music Education Blogger Campaign Hits 80

J. Pisano — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:52:34 +0000

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!

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.

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Best Music Freeware: Launchy

J. Pisano — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:40:47 +0000

Music Educator’s Freeware Toolkit
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Title: Launchy

Description: A time saving tool to find and launch frequently used programs and files on your computer.

License: Open Source

Screen Snapshot:Tested On Which System (before posting): XP Professional

Launchy!

Platforms Supported: All Windows and Linux

Expanded Description: Although not a Music-Specific program, Launchy is unbelievably useful for expediting the launching and finding of frequently used programs. It is always ready to go (TSR) and updates its indexes every ten minutes (selectable). This program is so useful that I’ve installed it on all of our MIDI computers in the Music Technology Lab.

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SKYPE In The Classroom, The Fire Rages On…

J. Pisano — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:18:32 +0000

Just a quick note to promote our education project on SKYPE. T.H.E. Journal has just published an article about our Music Education SKYPE concert as their featured post at their main website. If you missed any of this at MusTech.Net! (and I’m not sure how you could!), you need to check it out! I am currently finishing the 3rd part of our series about the, now famous, SKYPE concert and hope to publish it late next week.

Here are some links from mustech.net about the project:

…and stay tuned for the 3rd part of the series next week!

Check out the T.H.E. Journal’s Article about our SKYPE Concert Here:
http://thejournal.com and
direct at http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23197

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September ME Blogger Update

Dr. Joseph M. Pisano — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:43:19 +0000

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:
http://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!!!):

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://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!

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September ME Blogger Update

J. Pisano — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:38:50 +0000

You can find out all of the 100 Music Education Blogger Information, ideas, goals, et. here:
http://mustech.net/100-me-bloggers Check it out today and join or re-energize yourself!

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Best Music Freeware: Print Conductor

Dr. Joseph M. Pisano — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:44:09 +0000

Music Educator’s Freeware Toolkit
Visit all of our Freeware Toolkit here:

http://www.mustech.net/category/freeware/

Title: PrintConductor

Description: Easily batch-print multiple files from within a GUI drag and drop environment.

Screen Snapshot:Tested On Which System (before posting): XP Professional

: Drag and Drop!

Platforms Supported: All Windows

Expanded Description: Although not a Music-Specific Freeware this program is unbelievably useful for the day to day printing needs of educators and musicians. At some point you may need to print many different files “in one shot”, whether they be Word docs, PDFs, or of almost any standard file format…this program allows you to drag-and-drop any file into it’s print que and send them all, at once, to your printer! All printer drivers are supported. This program is a huge time saver!

Home Page: http://print-conductor.com

Download Links:

Direct:
http://www.print-conductor.com/download_pc.htm

Or… Get This Directly From Mustech.Net’s Freeware Repository at esnips.com

Mustech.net’s BESTMUSICFREEWARE @ esnips.com:

Visit our repository list of freewares at esnips.com or

Visit all of our posts that deal with freeware.

Best regards,

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Best Music Freeware: PrintConductor

J. Pisano — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:35:58 +0000

Music Educator’s Freeware Toolkit
Visit all of our Freeware Toolkit here:

http://www.mustech.net/category/freeware/

Title: PrintConductor

Description: Easily batch-print multiple files from within a GUI drag and drop environment.

Screen Snapshot:Tested On Which System (before posting): XP Professional

: Drag and Drop!

Platforms Supported: All Windows

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The Fire Roars, Our SKYPE CONCERT, Catches More Global Attention…

Dr. Joseph M. Pisano — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:16:59 +0000

If you have not been following along here at MusTech.Net…it’s time to catch up!   Travis Weller and I, decided to test some of the educational “outer limits” of using SKYPE in the classroom at a performance in May of 2008.   What we accomplished was nothing short of “ground breaking” in the music education/performance and related arenas. At Travis’ Spring Instrumental Concert we SKYPED three of the composers of pieces being performed that night, LIVE via VIDEO, into the concert to talk with the performers, conductor, and audience that were present that evening. The composers SKYPED in were, Dr. Andrew Boysen, Dr. Scott Watson, and Mr. Brian Balmages.

Today, on the front page of Campus Technology, is an article by Linda L. Briggs, about our project entitled: Bringing Composers into Classrooms Through Skype.   Travis and I have been interviewing with a number of folks about our usage of SKYPE in the educational setting and this is one of the articles that has resulted from that collaboration with the SKYPE folks and others.

I have started a 4-part series about our SKYPE CONCERT and have finished the first two parts; you may find those articles here:

Part I, Out of the Box, Connecting the Audience, Performers, and Composers through Skype
Part II, Connecting the Audience, Performers, and Composers

The other two parts are forthcoming and hopefully will be completed by the end of September 2008.

Here are a couple of recent mentions about SKYPE found in articles at MusTech.Net:
Should We Utilize Technology in the Music Classroom? Questions to Ask First!
Using Skype in the Educational Setting: Skyping Experts Into The Classroom

The official citing of the Briggs article is:

Linda L Briggs, “Bringing Composers into Classrooms Through Skype,” Campus Technology, 8/27/2008, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=66727

Please forward this to all of your music friends and colleagues, you can email, print, and share from the top of this post, just click on what you would like to accomplish!



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The Fire Roars, Our SKYPE CONCERT, Catches More National Attention

J. Pisano — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:12:07 +0000

If you have not been following along here at MusTech.Net…it’s time to catch up!   Travis Weller and I, decided to test some of the educational “outer limits” of using SKYPE in the classroom at a performance in May of 2008.   What we accomplished was nothing short of “ground breaking” in the music education/performance and related arenas. At Travis’ Spring Instrumental Concert we SKYPED three of the composers of pieces being performed that night, LIVE via VIDEO, into the concert to talk with the performers, conductor, and audience that were present that evening. The composers SKYPED in were, Dr. Andrew Boysen, Dr. Scott Watson, and Mr. Brian Balmages.

Today, on the front page of Campus Technology, is an article by Linda L. Briggs, about our project entitled: Bringing Composers into Classrooms Through Skype.   Travis and I have been interviewing with a number of folks about our usage of SKYPE in the educational setting and this is one of the articles that has resulted from that collaboration with the SKYPE folks and others.

I have started a 4-part series about our SKYPE CONCERT and have finished the first two parts; you may find those articles here:

Part I, Out of the Box, Connecting the Audience, Performers, and Composers through Skype
Part II, Connecting the Audience, Performers, and Composers

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