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MUSIC PROF AWARDED GRANT FOR TECHNOLOGY |
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May 06, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Dr. Joseph Pisano ’94, director of music and fine arts technology and assistant chairman of the Department of Music and Fine Arts at Grove City College, is at the forefront of the music technology industry.
In 2006, Pisano conducted “a global search and survey” of music educators in an effort to find others who he could discuss music technology with. He found only two. “Nobody was blogging about music,” he said. Because it takes a long time for research to filter down into practical use, and since blogging online can short-cut the process, Pisano decided to start the 100 Music Education Bloggers Campaign.
Pisano’s project seeks to start 100 music educators blogging online by January 2009. To help, NAXOS – an online music library with more than half a million songs – gave Pisano a $15,000 grant in the form of 100 free music subscriptions. Pisano will distribute these to the 100 music educators who blog. Forty-five music educators have started blogging since January 2008.
Pisano’s work was recently cited in “Teaching Music” and “School Band and Orchestra,” two mainstream music magazines, where he was called a mover and shaker of the music technology industry and cited as an expert in the field.
Pisano is taking the blogs and syndicating them together through RSS (really simple syndication) feeds, which send a link and a headline to subscribers every time a blog is updated. Pisano is creating a list of these RSS feeds from all the bloggers in the campaign, synthesizing the information for easy research. Because of this, researchers will be able to type in a search within this list of RSS feeds and immediately find information regarding what they need from reliable sources.
“Once we gain control of information systems we become so much more productive,” Pisano said.
At the College, Pisano is currently working with students to bypass the portfolio process and create “blogfolios” instead, which they can use to upload resumes and music clips for instant access.
“I want [the students] to become information management specialists,” he said. “Once you get control of information you can really have control of whatever your discipline is.”
With Pisano’s help, the music department has greatly expanded its technology. The music technology lab at the College is “one of the best music technology labs in this part of the country,” Pisano said.
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