Music Technology in Education

If you’ve been around the music education/technology blogosphere, you’ve probably heard of Andy Zweibel. Andy is a music education major at the University of Miami and is a member of the ME Blogger campaign started by Joe Pisano of MusTech.net. I first met Andy at FMEA this past January. He came to one of my sessions and was Tweeting throughout. I enjoy checking out Andy’s blog and many of his posts provide incredible insight into the perceptions of music education majors. Andy is a very enthusiastic music technology and future educator, and I know that we will be hearing wonderful things about him in the years ahead.

Recently, Andy started a terrific new website called MusicEdMajor.net. The mission of the site is to provide undergraduate music education majors with a place to gather online to blog about a wide variety of topics - many of which are yet to emerge. The site’s design is very slick, and Andy has created some highly interactive content already. During the MENC Music Education Week he was running a live blog feed throughout. Another testament that the youth know this stuff inside out, while people like us sit back and watch in amazement. I strongly urge you to check out his site, and more importantly, if you teach pre-service music educators recommend that they utilize during the semester to connect with other music education majors around the country. I know that this site will catch on, and I wish Andy the best of luck with it!

I welcome your comments and suggestions.