Final Website Product

My group members and I have worked really hard on the web project.  It has been a pleasure to work with such a dedicated group and we are very happy with our end result.  I would like to thank them for a great learning experience.

Here is what the final banner looks like:

and here is the link to our website:

http://scah.cdu.edu.au/2012/NMD201/final/homepage/

I am surprised at how quickly the last 12 weeks have passed and am a little sad that my time in NMD201 has come to an end.  I have thoroughly enjoyed this unit and have learned an awful lot that I didn't think I was capable of doing.  I would like to work more on HTML and feel more confident in building websites.  I feel that I have only scratched the surface and that there is so much more to learn.  Composing was very satisfying and it has increased my passion for music and learning all I can about music is more on my agenda than ever before.  I believe I will be able use all the skills learnt in this unit and am now a little less afraid to dive into new software.

What is New Media?

I have been pondering over the article review that is part of the assessment for this blog and decided to find an article that deals with New Media itself.  I have just completed another unit in which I wrote an essay to define New Media and thought it only fitting to review an article about New Media for this unit.

I have chosen the article "Defining New Media Isn't Easy" by Bailey Socha and Barbara Eber-Schmid.  You can read the full article here.

“Defining New Media Isn’t Easy” written by Bailey Socha and Barbara Eber-Schmid from the New Media Institute is an article that defines what ‘New Media’ is. The New Media Institute (NMI) aims to better inform the general public about issues surrounding the Internet and other New Media and Barbara Eber-Schmid is the Executive Vice President and co-founder of the NMI.

The article begins by defining that the term New Media is a term that has been coined that relates to the Internet and the convergence of technology. It offers a definition of what New Media is and therefore what it is not. The authors quote Wikipedia and describe New Media as that which is often described as digital technologies, which generally can be manipulated, networkable and interactive. New Media is actually very hard to define as technologies are constantly changing and evolving. It has an effect on our society, economically, politically and socially and can also enrich the learning experience of students.

This article serves well to try and offer a definition of New Media and all that encompasses that term. It offers a great deal of information on the effects of New Media on our lives and society. The article is easy to read and uncomplicated and includes referencing. The authors genuinely appear to be qualified and experienced to write about this topic and it would make a good reference for other work. For anyone trying to get an understanding of what New Media is and where it may be headed, this article certainly offers some clarity and is an informative piece of writing.

Week 12 - Working on the Website

Tom, Claudia and myself all came in this week although there was no scheduled class, to make sure we are staying on track with our part of the website building.  Tom had arrived earlier and had done a great job of slicing the banner to create all the page links so it is certainly looking like a website now.

Our group is working on the program of events, a welcome page and also a page dedicated to past exhibitions.

Claudia had received an email from Sarah Pirie regarding some material from the previous couple of years exhibitions.  We went through the material together and made decisions on what to include on the site.  We decided to go with a link to the external site for a video from the 7:30 Report and an imbedded file for the other video.  We also decided to include a couple of images of some of the work included in the past exhibitions.

We have put together a brief program with the small amount of information that we now have regarding the inclusions in the event.  These have been listed out according to the venues and what will exhibit in these venues- The Amphitheatre, The Theatre and the Nan Giese Gallery.

I researched the previous exhibitions and found some articles written for CDU news.
Here is the link for the article regarding the 2010 exhibition - "Up Here"
www.cdu.edu.au/enews/versions/041010.../uphere_exhibition.html

and also the link to the article regarding the 2011 exhibition - "10 squared - Art from the Hot Lands"
www.cdu.edu.au/enews/versions/07112011/.../artexhibition.html

We thought we could possibly use these articles but decided that we already have enough content for the past exhibitions.  I also looked up a couple of course outlines that we hadn't been able to find as easily as others.  This information is on the page that informs the user about the students whose work is represented and what those student have been studying.