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Title:** The Year in the Arts Rockledge 2008-2009
 * Instructional Topic:** Visual Art, Music, Theatre, Dance, Storytelling, and Puppetry

Technology Standards Addressed:** Maryland Teacher Technology Standards II. Communication B. Use technolgy to communicate information in a variety of formats 1. Select appropriate technologies for a particular communication goal 2. Use productivitiry tools to publish information
 * SUMMARY

I was part of a team of teachers who attended the Maryland Artist Teacher Institute over the summer of 2008. As part of an evaluation, I created this Power Point to demonstrate how Rockledge used the Arts throughout the school year of 2008-2009. I also created a Power Point for the Walters Art Museum that describes a unit taught to Second Graders.
 * Description:**

This school year, I used many of the tools we were trained on in STEP I. Throughout the year, I documented visiting artists performing and interacting with the students at Rockledge. I used both the digital camera and digital video camera. For the Walters Art Museum Power Point, I had video taped students talking about their final products. I worked with Regina Stimson, my teaching partner in this unit, to select the images, both still and video, to include in the Power Point. Together we wrote the slides. I discovered that I needed to have back up video images to support this project. We presented it at the Walters and for workshops at Prince George's County's Artist Teacher Institute. The presentations were well recieved. //The Who's Your Mama// Power Point was huge because it had 6 embedded vidoes in it along with the images from the digital camera and those that were scanned in. I could only fit 4 slides on this presentation. I included one video slide. The video does not work here. It is "What is a diptych according to a Second Grader." I have the original Power Point for verification. For the evaluation for the Maryland State Department of Education, I went through all of the images taken of artists and the arts at our school this year. I had first tried to create a Photo Story, but when that would not save to the county laptop, I went to my home computer to create it. I had 93 slides for the first draft and added 11 more at school for the final product. I chose a five second display of all images and had different animation formats for each text selection. I wanted to add music to go under the slide show. It had to be long, so I chose an unusual recording of Gershwin's __Rhapsody in Blue.__ It fit beautifully. As a final touch, I added a slide at the beginning called "Voices." My original thought was that the words would fly in and one would hear the voices talking about the arts. I recorded tow students and a PK class talking about the arts. With help form Jim Kerns, our instrumental music teacher, we figured out how to make that opening look and sound fantastic. The voice sounds are alone and the text rolls by. Then the title of the slide show and the music begins. The original presentation is 114 slides long. I could only put 9.58 MB on this presentation. I did not hear all the sound and music under the presentation I created with Google docs. Nor do I see the animation. I do have the original saved on a CD for viewing.. It is by far the most complex and interesting Power Point I have ever done. I had no special training in it. I relied on what I could figure out, like adding the video. I also relied on friends, like Jim, who could show me how to add the music to go throughout the presentation and make the sounds brief at the top of the presentation. I definately would not have had the know-how or the courage to expirament without STEP. media type="custom" key="3877849" media type="custom" key="3877909"
 * Reflection**