Your activities and work contribute to your final grade as follows:

Assignments

1. Activate and Customize your website's homepage.
2. Create an images directory
3. Create an audio directory
4. Search the web for medium to large images based on a theme and put them in a folder on your hard drive. You will use these later for an animation.
5. Upload at least two images from your hard drive to your website images directory.
6. Write your biography directly on your website using the editing procedures for making web pages (bio.html). Link to it from your Homepage.

Assignment: Organizing your website

Create the following pages and set up links to them on your  tech.html page:

Essentially your website is structured as follows:

Two Directories: "audio" and "images"

index.html (This is your personal page reflecting your interests and personality, It contains a link to the tech.html. Currently, it contains an image, an embedded sound file, a mailto: command, and external and internal links. You should continually work with it...maybe change colors, texts, fonts, images, soundfiles, layout, etc.)

tech.html
(this page will contain the links to all of your assignments. It might have a paragraph explaining that this page was developed for your assignments in Technological Resources for Performing Arts, and other interesting information about your struggles and victories.)

Create a Blog, using  Blogger
(your Blog will contain daily/weekly entries describing what you have been working on and your perceptions of the process...the difficulties you have gone through and your speculation about technology and its impact on the performing arts.)

NOTE: All assignment pages should have a "technical" paragraph that explains the technology used, your choices, and how and why you did what you did.

music.html
A place to practice putting music on the web. You could try embedding and linking. You might also associate image with music.

images.html
(This page is for images or an image that you have processed through a program like Adobe Photoshop. You will place some images that you have altered using filters. Describe the filters and what attracted you to use those particular filters).

animations.html
(Using some of the images you have processed create at least one animated gif. Add some music on the page with the animation that you think is appropriate for the animation and roughly timed to play along with the animation.)

movie.html
(create a movie 30 seconds to a minute using still images taken from the web based on some theme i.e. trees, universe, oceans, instruments, etc. the timing will be controlled by the soundtrack which you might edit using a program like audacity.) You can add a "movies" directory,

concrete.html
(Using a digital audio program such as audacity, create a musical sculpture [sometimes called "music concrete"] be deconstructing a musical passage and reconstructing it using multitrack technology)

literacy.html
(This page contains five annotated links concerning literacy and the performing arts and literacy and your discipline. You will also provide a bried statement about how you think your discipline can be helpful in teaching literacy.)  Do a PowerPoint Presentation and Post on your website as a webpage and as a link to a ppt file.

podcast.html
This page documents your podcast assignment, A model page is on our class website. It should contain relevant images, narrative, playlist (with comments if you wish, relevant links to a few websites, and a technical description of how you organized and created the podcast. You should include a video and an audio podcast.)

project.html
Working with others, develop a project with a focus that utilizes the technology in some educational application for the performing arts. Teams will be assigned.

Additional Information: Use as Assigned

Assignment

1. Search the web for five websites that deal with literacy and your discipline. These will be posted on your website and annotated.
2. Upload an image processor from Adobe and use the filters to create effects. Save these processed images. Familiarize yourself with the .gif and the .jpg (jpeg) formats. Save the same file in both formats and note the difference in file size.
3. Post at least one picture (image) on your website using the syntax:

<center>
<img src = "images/filename.jpg">
</center>

Of course you would subsitute gif for jpg if your are posting a gif file.
4. Save your word document resume as a web page and make a link to it from your index page. The syntax for the link would be:

<a href = "bio.html"> See My Bio</a><p>

For contact information, do not use addresses, telephone numbers, or social security numbers. The only contact information should be an e-mail address.

5. Create a new page from your index page by using "Save As" and saving the new page as resources.html. Change the text (TiTLE and H2) on the new page to reflect that this is the page for Tech Resources Assignments.  Eliminate all other text, but don't take out the final html tags </BODY> and </HTML>.

6. Using an audio file program such as iTunes to "rip" tracks from CDs as aif (or wave) files and mp3 files, Practice uploading a few mp3 files to your website audio directory. Create links to your mp3 files or embed the mp3 files into a page using the following syntax:

<embed src= "audio/music.mp3" Controller = true Height= 40  Width=400 autostart= true><p>

How would you center this music controller? What is the difference in making a link to the soundfile instead of embedding it?

Assignment
CD Project (a documentation of music you collected and burned onto a CD): The page should contain a song list in the order of the tracks you burned, background material on the music or group, links to relevant websites, and images relevant to the project. In addition provide a brief technical description of the process, including how you sleected the music, how you got the tracks, and what software you used to burn the CD

Assignment
Processed Images: Provide a page of an image or images that you have treated through filters. Describe the source of the image and discuss the filters used and what you liked about them.

Assignment
Animated Gif: You may make an animated GIF from  the processed images or use new materials to create your frames. Have a technical description of how you created the frames and how you made the animated GIF. Describe the software you used and how you obtained the software.

Assignment
Annotated Literacy Links: Google websites which utilize literacy that could be relevant to your discipline.  Provide a description of the website, its strengths and shortcomings, and provide a direct link to the website.

Assignment
Music Concrete: Select a sound source (possibly natural or ambient sounds) and use a multitrack program such as Audacity to restructure the elements of the sound to create a sound sculpture or collage. Provide a screenshot of the multitrack version, and then mix down to stereo and post the screenshot and mp3 file on your webpage.

Assignment
PowerPoint (as a webpage and as a download): Develop a short PowerPoint presentation of 6-10 slides basedc on some aspect of literacy and your discipline. Be sure to write narrative in the notes area so that your web presentation will have explanation available for each slide. Send the PowerPoint presentation to the instructor as an e-mail attachment. Save as a webpage and post on your website. Also place the PowerPoint file in your images directory and create a link so it can be downloaded.

Assignment
Movie Assignment: Choose a theme. Select images from the web to be used as the basis for a movie. Try to use an application that utilizes with Ken Burns effect. Select and edit music to be used for the soundtrack. The movie should be approximately one-minute long. Arrange your images, title slides, effects and transitions so that you have a movie accompanied by a sound track as an .mov file.

Assignment
Group Project (from the project.html page have a link to your Blog)

Your projects need to provide a way for disciplines to interact, and to use technology somehow as an extension of reach or presentation, or documenting and sharing, or researching and implementing ideas of artistic expression as they relate to education and educational settings. Of course, literacy can be utilized, can even be the focal point, but there is no intention to impose literacy as a necessary condition of the project.

You project page should have two dimensions:
1. actual description and material produced for the project
2. a link to your journal.html

Your Journal should contained dated entries as reactive and think pieces that deal with concepts suggested by the project, group dynamics, responses to, and conflicts with, materials, technology, etc. These should not be simplistic descriptions such as :"The group met for two hours today and discussed the technology we might use in our project."

The journal should also reflect your own personal contributions to the project, and an evaluation of the process.