Showing posts with label Music Education Blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music Education Blogs. Show all posts

Monday, December 6, 2010

Top 10 of 2010

It was a terrific year of writing, interviewing, and making some great connections through our blog. Our #1 rated blog What's Wrong with Music Education? was a run-away winner because of the variety of feedback we received not only nationally but internationally as well.  Below are the top 10 DLP blogs of 2010 by number of visits, re-visits, re-posts and feedback from our readers. 

10.  The Mozart Effect: Finally Some Clarity  If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

9. Improvise Like a 7 Year Old  You are 7 years old. School is canceled, and you have the entire day to yourself. What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you see?

8. Meet Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts "Too often in the arts it is about what WE, as artists, want to accomplish and not about what WE CAN DELIVER to our audiences. Entrepreneurship makes this flip possible."

7.  MusickEd Plays a Role in MS Patients' Recovery  "I feel like the connections in my brain are being re-wired", Toni says "Steve and my friends in the support group have noticed too." 

6. How Not to Capture Learning Myth: if music education in school introduced kids to classical music early enough, we'd create younger audiences for the future. Fact: No it won't. 

5. Music to Our Ears - Bravo Phllip Ball!  But it will be a sad day when the only way to persuade educationalists to embrace music is via its side effects on cognition and intelligence.  

4. Charting Creativity Grab a timer and set it for one minute. Now list as many creative uses for a brick as you can imagine. Go. 

3. Create the Check Box What's our check box?  We are entrepreneurs in music education. Yes, you heard me right. I'll give you a moment to re-read that one more time. We're used to it.

2. The Other 80% Technology indeed has never been more important to music education, but if we strive only to reach that 20% - we will have sold ourselves very, very, short....again. 

1. What's Wrong with Music Education? It’s time to realize that music education is an amazing commodity. There is no shelf life, the rules will never change, and just about everyone would love to learn about music if the opportunity presented itself appealingly.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Welcome to the December 2008 Music Education Carnival of Blogs

At Discover, Learn, Play we are very excited and honored to be hosting this edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival! We hope you'll take a moment to get to know us, read some of our posts, leave a comment and drop by now and again to stay in touch.

Submissions for this December Carnival began finding my mailbox bright and early on Monday morning, November 3. We had no sooner started changing the clocks to Daylight Savings time when the first 'ding' arrived from 'One Family's Blog' offering a 'Comparative Review' of Yamaha digital pianos. And I thought I was prolific! This blog covers so many topics that it had my head swimming. The final post came in just under the gun mere moments ago. Posts, authors and home pages are listed below in order of their arrival.

PS check out the music education blogger time-line compiled by Joel at So You Want to Teach? - it's very cool and you just might see your blog and name in print!

Special thanks to Dr. Joe Pisano at MusTech.Net for all of his hard work and for this opportunity. Please be sure to 'actively participate' in this global conversation, comment on posts that you find interesting and above all, tell your friends about the Carnival. Enjoy!


1. Yamaha Digital Pianos - A Comparative Review by One Family's Blog

2. Music Teachers: Free printable sheet music by Crystal H. Site For Music Teachers

3. Get Into Rhythm: 50 Open Courseware Collections for Musicians
by Alisa Miller MatchACollege

4. Learning to Play Better Guitar by Jeffery Hansen Ultra Guitar Method

5.Things I've Learned
by Alexandra Gallant The Misadventures of a First Year Music Teacher

6. Promoting Your New School Blog by Theresa White Education in Music

7. 20 Questions to ask Yourself When Practising by Mike Seville How To Practise

8.
Mozart Makes You Human by Nancy Flanagan Teacher in a Strange Land


9.
A Partial Timeline of Music Education Blogging
by Joel So You Want to Teach?

10. Cross Sticking on Snare Drum
by Cary Stewart Third Stream Music Education

11. The Process of Learning a Musical Instrument
by Thomas J. West Music Education Practice Tips

12. MuseScore , A Free Open-Source Music Composition and Notation Program by Joe Pisano MusicTechnology.Net

That concludes this edition. Be sure to submit your blog article to the next edition of music education blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Thanks for visiting!


Monday, November 24, 2008

Last Call for the Blog Carnival!

Please be sure to get your posts submitted for the next Carnival - we will be publishing as scheduled on Monday, December 1st. I will be making last minute edits up until that very morning so you still have time!

Thanks!
 
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