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New Years Project 2011

12/07/10 By 7 Comments

Greetings, folks! Lindsay here!

A new year is upon us, so why not set some New Years Goals for Music Education?!

While reflecting on my experiences with Twitter, the MPLN, and blogging, I have realized that I am doing myself a huge favor by making my education and my independent learning compliment each other. Some of the things we are all doing in #MusEdChat and on Twitter is either foreign or unknown to some students and educators. There is a wealth of knowledge for musicians and educators on Twitter, and for students to participate in those conversations while they pursue their degrees, I believe, is a way to set yourself apart from the rest!

So here’s the goal:

We want to get 100 Music Education Majors tweeting! It’s time to get music students talking to their peers and to experienced teachers! Here’s a brief overview on how the beginning stage will work:

  • Andy and I pondered about what to name this project so that it cleverly incorporated the words “tweet,” “music,” etc, but we couldn’t come up with anything so we’re going to open a form for suggestions!
  • If you have a suggested name for our project, submit it here by December 20th! Take this time to exercise your creativity!
  • Once we have the names, we’ll create a poll for everyone to vote on the project title. The voting will close on New Years Eve so that we will immediately start 2011 with this new endeavor!
Andy has created a Twitter name for this site that will host the music education major list we intend to create. As a matter of fact, you can start following along with updates from MusicEdMajor.net and this project by following @MusicEdMajor today, or by clicking the link below:
Again, the @MusicEdMajor account will host our official list of Music Ed Majors on twitter. Students will be able to join the project by meeting a small list of criteria, and they can (and should!) follow the entire list as well!

Here is the short list of criteria for our list of 100 Music Education Majors on twitter:

  • Commitment to send at least one Tweet per week
  • Commitment to participate when possible in #MusEdChat and other global conversations about Music Ed
  • Follow the list that we create
  • Encouraged to start a blog for more long-form sharing of ideas about Music Ed

We can’t wait to see what benefits a growing community of Music Education Majors can have! More to come on all of this in the coming weeks, but until then spread the word to any music education students and encourage them to participate in global conversation with peers and teachers! Don’t forget to submit your suggestions for how we should name our project here by December 20th!

Related posts:

  1. 100 Music Education Majors Tweeting!
  2. First Update to 100 MEMT List
  3. Surviving the First Two Years
  4. Florida Music Educators’ Association 2011
  5. 2011 FMEA Conference
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About Lindsay Morelli

Lindsay is a soon-to-be graduate student at The College of Charleston studying Choral Music Education. For more information, please visit http://www.LindsayMorelli.com

  • http://twitter.com/KFreesen Kyle Freesen

    Great. I’ll be thinking on it and will be sure to share with the undergrads at my school. Let me know if I can do anything for musicedmajor.net

  • http://musicedmajor.net Andy Zweibel

    Thanks, Kyle! The list will be open to grad students, as well, so feel free to join us come New Years!

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  • http://twitter.com/thomasjwest Thomas West

    What a fantastic idea! Today’s music ed majors are so much more likely to participate in something like this than people my age or older.

  • http://musicedmajor.net Andy Zweibel

    That was one of our big reasons for trying it, Tom. If we can get as many young people on board with the ideas of PLN’s and global conversations as possible, there is no limit to the potential growth this network could have!

  • http://twitter.com/iplaytrumpet72 Brian White

    Hi All,
    I just “followed” you on Twitter. I’m a band director teaching overseas in Singapore. I’m in my 15th year as a music education teacher and have taught all levels of band as well as general music and guitar.

    I would love to share my international teaching experience with anyone that is interested. International teaching was never mentioned when I was an undergrad and I only happened upon it by chance. There’s a whole other world out there in the education field and I love telling people about it.

    Cheers,
    Brian

    My twitter account is @iplaytrumpet72

  • http://musicedmajor.net Andy Zweibel

    Hi, Brian! Thanks for the comment! Your international experience would be an incredible viewpoint to have added to our mix… would love to hear your experiences about it!