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This wiki serves as a meeting place to share ideas and information for the Tech Quest project in CEP 812.
You can jump to the ANNOTATED LINKS page to view our key resources and comments about their use. In addition, you can view our RESOURCES page to view important professional websites that we utilized and the complete list of our annotated links.

Here are quick links to each of our individual pages: Diana Chantal Melanie Victoria

Our Goal is to discover through shared communication where technology fits in the Arts. How can technology support the Arts?
=== Within our group, the joining force of our projects will be in creating online resources that will benefit our students. This will include resources for new students, those wishing to enrich their experience in the class, or those who can now keep track of their progress throughout the year. ===

We have utilized the wiki in this group as a new advanced tool. It is our first time using this program for an online group assignment and we have been learning how to share ideas and organize our thoughts. In addition, we created a proposal in google presentation which was new for our group. We each created slides with our introductions and ideas for the techquest project.

====__**Diana-**__ I currently teach Middle School Art. From the Art Teacher's point of interest, how can I help my students become more confident in what they create in the Art room? Does publishing the students' Art on the Internet help to build confidence in my Art students? Will their parents take more interest in what the students create if the students' Art can be found on the Internet? (Should this be on my page?)====

My major area of interest is to create an on-line portfolio for each of my Art students.

====__**Melanie-**__ In my music classroom, my goal as a teacher is to create competent musicians that are comfortable playing their instruments. In order for this to happen, the students must grasp and understand the importance of fundamentals and be able to perform the patterns that make up most music in the band literature. I focus a lot of energy on teaching and stressing the performance of scales and how learning all twelve major scales will make the rest of the band music easier to play. In addition, many students and parents never get to hear what the student sounds like when they play their instrument individually. This is a great assessment tool that instantly demonstrates the level of ability in the class.====

My major area of interest is to create online videos that students create and assess of themselves playing scales during their course in the middle school band program.

I will be researching school districts that have used portfolios or videos as an assessment tool. I also hope to find research from music advocacy groups that have ideas for technology in the classroom. Finally, I will try to view websites that encourage web 2.0 tools in the classroom and that have ideas for blogging and podcasting as a class.

====**__Victoria-__** My goal is to create a system of resources to help new students to my art classes. In particular my Ceramics classes. It will be helpful in my Drawing class also, but especially in Ceramics due to the fact that it is so dependent on demonstrations.====

My major area of interest will be to create a website to organize student resources including video, text and images to help new students to my high school Ceramics and Drawing classes.

====**__Chantal-__** Currently I supervise an afterschool club for the middle school I currently teach at. The students that attend this club are the students whom enjoy art the most. They might be a students in my class currently or a previous students or a students I may never have because of scheduling. I would like to develope a website that will have general information on the club. However the main emphasis will be extension resourses. These extension will include detail information on the projects we complete in art club. I would also like to offer information on careers in visual arts, supplier page, video demonstrations, art history, events / activities in our community related to art. The site will have general information on the art club and events related to the club. But, I want the main focus of this website to be a resourse for a student to use year round and after they leave my school and go on to high school, even college == Chantal====