Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Know any music education bloggers?

Scott McLeod

I’ve been following with great interest Joseph

Pisano’s year-long quest

to identify (or spark the creation of) 100 music

education blogs by January 2009 (I blogged about it back in

March

). He has been diligently updating the list as it has grown throughout

the year. He’s up to 95

music education bloggers

. If you know of anyone with a music education blog

who’s not on Joseph’s list (or who might be a good candidate to start one),

please send him or her his way. He’s got 30 days left and just 5 more blogs to

go!

I think this is a great project and would love to see similar efforts in

other subject areas. Joseph’s list already is on the Moving Forward wiki. If it

helps, I will be happy to help promote other initiatives like this one!

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