Final Project

for Internet Performance and Production

SJSU TA 141

Actually, the entire Bluebird Creek Art and Design website is my "final project". I started making the site at the beginning of the semester. As I told Professor Fortune at the beginning, I probably owe him an analyst's or shaman's fee for helping me build such a magical mirror - a mirror which has allowed me to begin to see an integration of all the facets of my "life works". The medium is the magic, Professor. Thank you for teaching me some of the secrets of multimedia sorcery.

Particularly exciting to me are the elements of motion and sound - video and audio. If you haven't already, I hope you will listen to my team's New World Media radio piece, "Elevator Diaries", under the Multimedia:TA 141:audio link.

The Final Final Project: I spent quite a bit of time this semester working on a multimedia performance project for the Model Arts Program of Pajaro Valley Unified School District, where I am an elementary school teacher. Art Education was cut out of California public schools some years ago. But fortunately, momentum is gathering to bring visual and performing arts back into the schools. The California Alliance for Arts Education is a network of public and private organizations working to build Model Arts Programs throughout the state. I was asked to help document the accomplishments of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Model Arts Program (PVUSD MAP), in its first year, for an upcoming conference of the Alliance. I created a PowerPoint presentation of our district's Model Arts Program, with video inserts. The PowerPoint show was presented by our District Visual and Performing Arts administrator at the California Alliance for Arts Education Conference in the Spring of 2001, in Pasadena, California. I served as the "tech support person" at the presentation. With three long Quicktime video inserts, running on a MacG3 laptop, we only crashed once. Not bad. I also made a website for the PVUSD MAP, and put the PowerPoint slide show on the website. I was breaking new ground, in terms of my own learning, every inch of the way. It was very exciting to have such a worthy "real world" project to work on.