With only two days left to vote for MENC in the Chase Community Giving campaign on Facebook, MENC seems to be stuck in 37th place with just under 1,500 votes. (more…)
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Thank you to all of you who voted for MENC in the first round of the Chase Community Giving! Thanks to all of you, MENC was one of the $25,000 winners! (more…)
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I just recently came across this advocacy initiative that is sweeping musicians all across Facebook. This is a project that is being coordinated by the Seton Hill Chapter of MENC. Presented as an Event, Facebook users are encouraged to “Attend” the event, and then post a few statements about why music is so important to them. All of these testimonies will be compiled into a booklet and circulated to advocate for Music Education in our schools. In just a few days, the event has close to 2,000 attendees, and over 8,000 awaiting reply. This is a truly epic project being done by the people at Seton Hill University that will hopefully put a huge amount of information into the hands of people who need to read it. Below are some of the opening statements on the event page by creator Mandy Eckenrode: (more…)
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Just a short post to encourage you to vote for MENC to win $25,000! Chase Community Giving is away over 5 million dollars in the form of community donations. Through voting on Facebook, the top100 organizations receive $25,000. MENC is on this list and needs your votes to stay there! The process is quite simple so take 3 minutes and give MENC your vote. Each user gets 10 votes so be sure to vote for some other music/art education organizations while you’re there! Just follow the steps below to vote!
- Log in to Facebook
- Go here -https://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/526045043-menc-the-national-association-for-music-education?src=charity_share
- “Like” Chase Community Giving
- Submit your vote for MENC!
Now that was easy, wasn’t it? Be sure to spread the word to help MENC receive $25,000!
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As usual, the PMEA State conference offered very beneficial sessions that covered a wide variety of topics. In addition there were a bunch of very impressive performances including The “Pershing’s Own” United States Army Band. There were also quite a few exhibitors represented including SoundTree, SmartMusic, Finale and Sibelius.
PMEA 2011 Live-Blogs
The PMEA live-blogs were certainly a big success. We did however realize that the schedule for the live-blogs was quite rigorous. So in an attempt to catch up with some colleagues (and eat lunch!), some of the sessions were not covered. I will be updating the schedule to represent the sessions that were covered. For the sessions that were covered, the live-blogs are now in replay mode, which means you can go back and take a look at our session notes for the sessions that you didn’t attend! Overall, I felt that this live-blog model worked pretty well. I was very excited to try this new approach to live-blogging at conferences. It was certainly a necessary and useful step in the evolution of web 2.0 integration in traditional professional development. Be sure to keep checking back here for some posts based off many of the sessions from PMEA 2011!
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Andrew Ritenour is a junior Music Education major at Grove City College in Grove City, PA. He is actively involved in many performing ensembles including brass quintets, concert bands, marching bands, and choirs. Andy plays Tuba and Euphonium and is the Brass/Marching Instructor for the Somerset Area HS Marching Band. You can find him on twitter at @andrewritenour. 