Feed 1: Musictech.net http://musicedtech.wordpress.com/
This site delivers rich content regarding articles within the Music Tech education field, links to other blogs and news feeds within the field. The site featured articles on teaching music and using technology, information on running a music program and outside resources to help you in your teaching. I definitely would be able to learn from this site as well as use the site to find out what is being done in my field. This site appears to be maintained by a music educator still in practice. The last post was published in July 2010.
Feed 2: Musicedmagic http://www.musicedmagic.com/
This site also contains a wide variety of resources available for the music education teacher. Article contributions appear to be by a few different people. They also provided a twitter feed allowing you to access information outside of the website. I found this particular site a little easier to navigate and it contained a great deal more resources. Although it wasn't strictly music technology it contained a lot resources dealing with it.
Feed 3: Musictech.net http://mustech.net/
This website, although it appears to be maintained by just one person has a great deal of information and resources. It also contains many tools to access the site outside of visiting and sharing the website such as twitter, facebook, linkedin, google buzz and rss feeds. I found the site to be easy to navigate and better organized than the last two sites. I also found the content to have greater detail and more useful. Although music technology is the main theme for the site, there are also many other sources and information regarding music education itself. I will definitely use this site in my AR research.
Feed 4: Musicians Way Blog http://musiciansway.com/blog/
While this site did not contain as many resources as the last 3, the site is geared more towards the practice and performance of music. The main website states that the webpage is a companion to the book, The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness by Gerald Klickstein (2009). I found the site to be really informative and as I am in the business of educating students in music performance the site is very useful to me.
Feed 5: Finale Blog http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/
I picked this last site because I have the software Finale, which is a notation creation and editing software for composers, musicians and teachers. But also my Action Research is centered around another software, Smartmusic, which is by the same company. It only made sense for me to include this in my feeds. I found the site to be somewhat informative, however at first glance it appears to be just an extension of their help guide. Although I haven't delved into the entire site, of the articles I previewed, I didn't really find anything intriguing.
