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Today is the last day you can make comments regarding MENC’s Strategic Plan. You can contribute comments via email or on a dedicated bulletin board. As of this post only about 20 people have contributed comments on the bulletin board. The comments range in topic from debate over whether or not there should be high stakes testing in music, to issues of diversity, issues of music teacher certification and issues of partnerships with for profit companies. Do you have an… Read More »MENC Strategic Plan Comments End After Today September 20th

Have you ever played a turntable? You can now via the web! That’s right, every time this website is loaded from September 21st through November 25th TurntablePC, an interactive art project, will be triggered to manipulate an LP via the web in an art museum in Denmark. TurntablistPC was developed by Mogens Jacobsen. Every since I ordered a pair of Technic 1200 turntables and a mixer (under the district instrumental budget) for the general music program I used to teach,… Read More »Working the Decks on This Blog: Web-Based Turntablism and more…

I had a fabulous time at the 2007 SMTE Symposium this past weekend. Congratulations to everyone at University of North Carolina at Greensboro that organized and ran the symposium so smoothly. It was great seeing people I’ve met at previous conferences and meeting new colleagues as well. The conference was packed with important presentations and I learned much from the research, best practices and position papers. I also had a lot of fun giving my presentation with Janet Barrett. I’ve… Read More »Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium Recap

I’m looking forward to attending the Society of Music Teacher Education symposium later this week. A look through the program shows that it is going to be full of interesting papers and presentations. Janet Barret and I will be presenting our position paper “Counterpoint or Remix? A Dialogue on Popular Music and Popular Culture in the Music Teacher Education Curriculum.” Here’s the abstract: “Music education has professed the importance of including popular music in the curriculum for decades. Well-articulated rationales… Read More »Upcoming Society of Music Teacher Education Symposium