Only 31 days to go until the official end of the ME Blogger Campaign.   It’s been long and hard, but definitely worth it.  The number of folks blogging about music education has exploded since my challenge went out -not quite a year ago to the day.   I’m very excited to see where this will go [...]

I would like to wish all those folks that celebrate this holiday with me a very happy Thanksgiving.  Here are a couple of quick links that have some great information about Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving activities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving Wikipedia’snformation http://www.history.com/minisites/thanksgiving History.com’s information http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/ Scholastic.com’s activities for students http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Holidays-and-Events/Thanksgiving/Main.aspx Allrecipes.com’s Thanksgiving Recipes http://www.tnpsc.com/thanksgiving.htm Free screen savers for Thanksgiving Enjoy! and.. Don’t eat too much Turkey today!           All posts and [...]

The Grove City College Music Department Presents the 5th Annual Winter Jazz Concert Directed By Dr. Joseph M. Pisano on December 5th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.   This concert features two full Big Bands with a variety of traditional jazz and Christmas favorites and will be held at the Pew Fine Arts Center of Grove City College. The [...]

This is probably the funniest video I’ve ever seen about the “simplicity” of changing over to the new Digital Television Broadcast Air Signal that is coming, by mandate, in February of 2009. One of my students sent this to me and told me that it reminded them of one of my tech. [...]

Well, I haven’t been able to keep up with MusTech.Net this semester as much as I would like. I’m hoping my schedule will clear a little so that I can write about some of the many cool things that I’m working on both with faculty and colleagues and my students in the VERY near future. I [...]

Humanities and History Profs. and Teachers, if you’re teaching a segment on Rome, prepare to have one of the COOLEST editions to your arsenal of worn out slides, standard power point presentations, faded book pictures, and dusty chalkboard outlines… Google Earth now has completely rebuilt Rome in a navigable, downloadable, and freely available sketchup for the Google [...]

I was alerted to a number of broken links on my site via a really cool WordPress plugin called broken link checker, and I saw that a number of my SoundTree links were coming up broken.  So I went to their site and low-and-behold, a new look and some internal site moving (complete with changed URLs)!   I [...]

Well, it’s been long and hard but we’re seeing light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.  I can’ t believe how many music educators are now blogging.   When I first started this campaign in January, you could barely find a music education blogger using Google, now they’re everywhere  -which is a very good thing! There [...]

Here ye, Here ye, and LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… You only have about a day left to submit your entry for the 5th Edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival being hosted by Travis J. Weller at http://tjweller.wordpress.com (Composing Like Mad). You can find out the latest information about the Blog Carnival Here: http://mustech.net/muscarn Make sure you submit TODAY so [...]

Below is an embedded Picasa slide show of a number of photos take by Emily Maize of myself (conducting) and the Grove City College “Disney” Jazz Ensemble. Picasa is free, and is a competitor of Flickr (also free) which I also employ from time to time for photo sharing needs.  These programs are extremely useful to use and allow folks [...]

This past week we had both the Grove City College Wolverine Marching Band (almost 200) and The Grove City College “Disney” Jazz Ensemble (Big Band of 19) perform at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.   One thing that can be learned by the professional staff at Disney is that “Things go smoothly when advanced preparation and [...]

I’m back from Disney…almost 20 hours on a bus…  Had a great time, the Grove City College Marching Band and Jazz Ensemble was amazing.  Will post pictures and information tomorrow.  For now… going to to catch up!        All posts and articles by MusTech.Net!, unless otherwise expressly stated, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative [...]

Notice: All Floridians and wannabe mousketeers.   I, along with the Grove City College, Marching Wolverine and Jazz Band, will be performing this Friday at Disney World.  If you’re close, please come down and say hello!   The best spot to catch me (and us!) will be at 11:20 a.m. on Friday, the 24th at the Magic Kingdom Galaxy [...]

C-MuSE is a Custom Music Education Search Engine utilizing the Google search indexes and is another beta “lab” project by myself.  Currently I’m indexing every Music Education Blogger Site in this highly customized Google search engine in an attempt to cut through the “junk” when indexing sites that contain information that I want to report vs. [...]

I guess, I thought it went without saying since I post all of the shows here, but Yes, MusTech.Net, Darren Morton and I are on iTunes!  Subscribe to our show today; it just may be the best music education and technology experience on the entire Internet!  MusTech.net’s Technological Music & Musings Show! Dr. Joseph M. Pisano Direct [...]

In the 4th episode of MusTech.Net podcast, special guest, Ian Robin -the managing director of the SKYPE Business end, joins us for an in-depth discussion about how SKYPE is being used in the education community.  Find out how educators, music educators, and language educators are using Skype in their classrooms in this one-of-a-kind interview with a [...]

This is the ENHANCED podcast version of Episode 14 Enhanced Note: Make sure you have selected “run scripts” from under the security tab of the tools section in Media Player to utilize this Enhanced Podcast! MAC Users Note: In order to take advantage of the Enhanced podcast on the MAC you will have to have Windows Media Player [...]

The Music Education Blog Carnival has been a huge success on many levels.  It has crated a “buzz” about becoming a blogger among music educators; it provides a semi-peer reviewed venue for posting great and useful music related posts, and also provides this information to the world free of charge.  It’s a “win, win” for [...]

I spent a little time last night looking for and trhorugh a number of new search engines.  The following is a list of that I found that were interesting in some way (I looked at about fifty in total).  I’m always looking for a way to “cut through” the useless information that is posted on the internet and [...]

I’ve been an active proponent of Finale Notepad since its inception and “birth” into the computer world.  I was very disappointed by Finale’s self-reported “exciting news” about the product and their subsequent charge of $9.95-$19.95 US for their latest version of Finale Notepad 2009.    Although, there have been a couple of fair freeware music notation programs, most [...]

Anyone?   Edublogs.org has stated that they’ve been updating for a couple of days now (stating that they would be “up” later?)  There are a number of ME Bloggers that have their site with Edublogs and I’m getting all kind of errors related to broken links at MusTech.net. I checked before this post and edublogs.org isn’t even [...]

Here is an article/post for all of the WordPress users that utilize the open-source software found at WordPress.org.  These particular plugins are directly related to music and particularly useful for musicians, whether players, composers, or educators. The following is a list of current, useful, and hand-picked plugins that I’ve worked with at some point that allow for [...]

It’s called a carnival of blogs and Joel Wagner and I started one for Music Education 5 months ago!   This is a great way for you all to get more exposure to your work(s) meet new folks and spread the word about music, education, and/or technology! I’ve started a home page for the carnival that can be [...]

What are your favorite music education podcasts? Ones that relate to music education, music technology, or music performance? Here’s a short list of mine for starters: MusTech.Net’s (Dr. J. Pisano’s and D. Morton’s) Podcast http://mustech.podomatic.com James Frankel’s Podcast http://fams.podomatic.com Scott Watson’s Podcast http://whatmusicmeans.mypodcast.com/ Larra Marra’s Podcast Click Here For it! Prof. Kieth Mason’s Podcast http://musictechforme.com What are yours? All posts and articles by MusTech.Net!, unless otherwise expressly [...]

It must be time to talk about this again as I am getting a number of students asking me where they can obtain staff paper!   There are a number of GREAT sites online where customizable music staff paper templates can either be designed or are already templatized. One of the very best sites to print staff [...]

Well, only Three Months to go!  The campaign has been long and hard but I know you will agree with me that it was/is worth it!   There have been so many great ideas and thoughts that have come out of the ME Blogger folks over the last 9 months that it would be almost impossible [...]

Sorry I haven’t been posting lately… I’ve been overwhelmed with local responsibilities both educational and civic related (I’m a borough councilman).     Hopefully, the craziness will slow down soon! Here are a couple of things to note:  If you haven’t signed up for the latest Blog Carnival, you are now down to mere hours…  The next edition will be [...]

The third episode of season three finds Joseph and Darren being surrounded with jack hammers, wrecking balls, and general chaos at the WSAJ studio. Darren was a little “late” for the recording and Joseph was stuck trying to find his way into a construction war-zone! This episode re-visits the HD Radio concept and new topics like [...]

As many of you know that follow me and my WordPress exploits, I can honestly say that I have not found any website/blogging platform that is easier to use and yet offers, nearly, endless flexibility for creation and implementation.  I have recently finished the framework and template for a wonderful non-profit music honorary known as Phi Beta [...]

 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 [...]

Music Educator’s Freeware Toolkit Visit all of our Freeware Toolkit here: http://www.mustech.net/category/freeware/ 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 (...)Read the rest of Best Music Freeware: PrintConductor (123 words) All posts and articles by MusTech.Net!, unless otherwise expressly stated, are licensed [...]

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 [...]

Hello all,     As with everyone it’s been more than busy with the start of the college year.   We’ve had a killer band camp and the Marching Wolverines are stronger than ever (And We’re Going To Disney in October!).   I am working to having the ME Blogger campaign back on track, as far as my administering [...]