Meet John Kuzmich, Jr.:

Creative Musical Web Pages for Educators!

Presented at the 2005 Colorado Music Educators Conference

Colorado Springs, Colorado

January 28, 2005

Building Tools for Designing/Building Web Pages:

Creative Musical Web Pages for Educators deals with the topics of designing/implementing/posting web pages for music educators. Contents will provide some good insight as to what ingredients can make a web page more dynamic.

Where to Begin Web Development as a Novice Web? The following 10 elements are essential to successful web pages. Go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/HTML_Development_Outline_Workshop.html
1. Understanding HTML Tags
2. Let's Start with Basic HTML Programming Elements with Tutorials that cover:
  - The Very Beginning:
  - Simple Text Enhancement
  - Italics typeface:
  - Underline typeface:
  - Creative banners with fancy fonts: http://www.cooltext.com
  Simple Text Formatting
  - Hard carriage return: <BR>or <P>
  - Centering: <center>
  - Font Size: <H1>, <H2>, <H3>, <H4>
  - Multiple columns: <MULTICOL COLS=2 GUTTER=10>, </MULTICOL>
  - Line Across the Screen: <HR>
  Fancy backgrounds: <Body Background="File.JPG"> or HTML code: <BODY BGCOLOR="C6EFF7">
  - Animation Factory: http://www.animationfactory.com/
  - Arcadia Animations: http://www.arcadia-animations.com/
  - Netscape Editor and Microsoft FrontPage Express
  - Download free backgrounds on the Internet
  Outling and Organizing Text
  - Indent with numbered order: <OL>
  - Assorted graphical indents: <UL>
  - List Item: <LI>
  Linking to other web sites <A HREF="URL">Text</A> Posting photographs: <img SRC="name of photo file JPEG or .GIF">
  - Digital camera photos
  - Scan in photographs to JPEG or GIF files
3. Reviewing Selected Web URL, Analyze Them, Copy Them, Alter Them and More!
4. A No-Nonsense Approach: requires browser, ASCII editor and FTP application.
5. A More Advanced Approach: requires browser, word processor and FTP application.
6. Netscape Composer with GUI interface.
7. HTML On-Line Internet Tutorials: Nearly 706,000 URL's listed in Alta Vista Search Engine under: & HTML Tutorials. 7,280,000 listed by Google Search Engine. . My favorite on-line HTML tutorial is The Barebones Guide HTML at http://werbach.com/barebones/
8. FTP Client Software for downloading and uploading web pages
  - Fetch (Macs): http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch.html
  - WS_FTP LE 5.08 (PC): http://www.ipswitch.com/cgi/download_eval.pl?product=main
9. Do's of Good Web Page Design: See handout: What Makes For A Good Web Page: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/Web_Design.html
10. Registering Your Web Page With Internet Search

Web Site Sources for Good Web Hosting: 1) iPower, 2) Earthlink.net and 3) 1 & 1 Business Pro.
Sources for Good Free Web Hosting:
1. Geocities at: http://geocities.yahoo.com/ with Page Wizards with blank pages and PageBuilder which offers templates for you to customize.
2. School pages with http://www.bigchalk.com
3. TeacherWeb: http://www.TeacherWeb.com
4. Creating Classroom activities with Fiamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
5. Make a Class Page with Teachers.net Homepage Maker: http://teachers.net/sampler/ and can be done in 5 minutes.
6. Building business pages with BigStep: http://www.bigstep.com
7. Puzzlemaker.com: http://www.puzzlemaker.com. It will generate several different types of puzzles for you, free.
8. Quixlab at: http://www.quizlab.com/ . Buidles online quizzes and surveys for you from an online template.
Designing/Layout Considerations: http://www.coolhomepages.com/, 1) Web Pages That Suck by Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. San Francisco: Sybex with extensive notes at: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/Web_Design.html, 2) Effective Web Design, second edition, by Ann Navarro. San Francisco: Sybex, 2001. 548 pp. with CD-ROM. Solid book with much depth, 3) Teach Your Great Web Design by Anne-Rae Vasquez-Peterson and Paul Chow. Indianapolis, Indiana: Sams.Net, 1997. 384 pp. with CD-ROM. Very graphical approach, and 4) The Web Design Wow! Book by Jack Davis and Susan Merritt. Berkeley, California: PeachPit Press, 1998. 218 pp. Interesting approach.
Web Page Procedures:
1. With browser, ASCII Editor: http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/jan00/technology.html
2. With browser, word processor: http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/jan00/technology.html
3. Creative everything inside of Netscape: two good reference books available: Build a Web Site In One Day with Netscape Composer, and The Web Kit: How to Build Great Web Sites
4. Dreamweaver at: http://www.macromedia.com or another GUI software applications.
Very First Web Page: http://www.kuzmich.com/mtna/projectoutline.html and http://www.kuzmich.com/mtna/Dreamweaver_Tutorial.html

Web Page Design Fundamentals: Tables, Frames Animated Giffs, Fancy backgrounds, and Digital Counters at: http://www.kuzmich.com/index2.html, and Anchors at: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/HTML_outline.html
Web Pages Tricks and Shortcuts: http://www.kuzmich.com/mtna/webtricks.html
Posting Student Compositions: http://www.kuzmich.com/Compositions.html and http://www.kuzmich.com/Finale2003/Compositions3.html
Posting Grades 24/7:
1. Gradebuster: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Grades.html
2. Pentamation's Teacher Workstation: http://www.pentamation.com/
3. Pinnacle by Excelsior at: http://www.gradebook.com/

Audio Streaming: <http://www.kuzmich2.com/Reva_Gig/Reva_Gig.html> and http://www.superscopetechnologies.com/press/IAJEcolumn.shtml

Video Streaming: <http://www.kuzmich2.com/Reva_Gig/Reva_Gig.html>, http://www.kuzmich2.com/parade2004/parade2004.ram, http://www.kuzmich.com/Reva/Butterfly.ram and http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/dec00/technology.html
Parent/Student Newsletters: http://www.kuzmich.com/parent_newsletters.html
On-line Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences: http://www.kuzmich.com/web_conference.html
Bibliography of Essential Web Development Articles and Books: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/Web_Bibliography.html
On-line Calendars: http://www.markworld.com/makecalendar.html, <http://www.kuzmich.com/June2004_Workshops.html> and <http://www.kuzmich.com/July2004_Workshops.html>
GUI/Graphical Software Applications for Seamless Web Page Construction
1. Dreamweaver by Macromedia at: http://www.macromedia.com
2. Go Live! by Adobe at: http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html
3. FrontPage 2002 by Microsoftware at: http://g.microsoft.com/mh_mshp/12

Posting PowerPoint Slide Shows at: http://www.kuzmich.com/index2.html
1. 2004 Arizona State University Web Development Clinic
2. 2004 Arizona State University Band-In-A-Box Clinic
3. 2004 Music Teachers National Conference Clinic
4. 2003 Mid-West & Orchestra Clinic Web Development Workshop
5. 2003 ASME Conference Music Technology Clinic in Darwin, Australia: Digital Magic!
6. K-12 School District Computer Music Technology Presentation
PDF Applications: <http://www.kuzmich.com/Flyer_Australia_Chile.pdf> for English and <http://www.kuzmich.com/Flyer_Australia_Chile_Spanish.pdf>.

Adobe Acrobat 7 in a Snap by Shari Nakano, Sams Publishing. Great resource for learning Adobe Acrobat 7.

Registering Your Web Site:
1. Get registered/listed with a portal or an Internet Search engine.
2. Addme.com submits your site to the 25 top search engines at no charge. http://www.addme.com or http://www.submit-it.com both at no charge.
3. Sub-it.com is broader in scope and its core list is more than 400 search engines
4. Check Domain Registration and Search Submissions links:
5. InterNic: http://www.internic.com
6. ICANN: http://www.icann.org
7. HomeStead: http://www.homestead.com
8. NBCI: http://www.nbci.com
9. My School Online: http://www.myschoolonline.com
10. Teachers Net: http://teachers.net/lessons/
11. AddMe: http://www.addme.com/
12. Submit It: http://www.submit-it.com/
13. WebRing: http://dir.webring.com/h/promo

FTP Client Software
1. Ipswitch Software: WS_FTP Home (Windows): http://www.ipswitch.com
2. NeoText software (Mac): http://www.neotextsoftware.com
3. Fetch Softworks (Mac): http://fetchsoftworks.com/
Digital recordings is the only way for music educators to promote their music programs on the Internet. And fastest and easier way to do this is via the Superscope PSD 300.
1. Product information: http://www.superscopetechnologies.com/products/PSD300/index.htm
2. Insightful article: http://www.superscopetechnologies.com/press/IAJEcolumn.htm

Additional Information!

Please go on the Internet and check out the "hot" linked, underlined web sites listed below for pertinent information/materials about my computer music technology and music web development clinics below. Note: recommended you use Microsoft Explorer to view all PowerPoint slide shows.

Primary clinic handout: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/HTML_outline.html
Sample Web Development Workshop Syllabus: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/HTML_Development_Outline_Workshop.html
2004 Arizona State University Web Development PowerPoint Slide Show presented on April 10, 2004. PowerPoint slide show creative overviews for music educator applications at: http://www.kuzmich.com/2004_ASU_Web_Development.mht
Web development for music educators! Check out the following dynamic articles written expressively for music educators.
1. "Building Your Website:" http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/jan00/technology.html
2. "Building Exciting Websites": http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/jun00/technology.html
3. "Why Is MP3 So Important For Music Educators:" http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/oct00/technology.html
4. "Creative Aspects of Video Streaming:" http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/dec00/technology.html
5. "Making School Web Pages More User-Friendly": http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/sep01/technology.html
6. "Web Development Series: Guide to Graphic Editor Software Applications:" http://www.sbomagazine.com/sbomag/jul03/technology.html
7. "Audio and video streaming examples": Butterfly and http://www.kuzmich.com/graduaterecital/graduaterecital.html
National Music Technology Certification Now Available from the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME)
The Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) offers a national certificate for music technology. John Kuzmich, Jr. is an approved training institute for TI:ME. Official TI:ME courses is part of the class, including workbooks that will be given to each participant. Two graduate college credits are awarded for 30 hours of instruction in each TI:ME course.

Seven More Reasons to Join TI:ME

1. Stay abreast of the fast changing world of technology.
2. Learn how to incorporate the seven areas of technology into your teaching.
3. Learn how to use technology for specific student and teacher applications.
4. Learn how to align technology with the MENC national standards.
5. Be among the leaders in music education using technology in creative ways.
6. Share information about the use of technology with colleagues around the world.
7. Participate in national technology conferences.

More TI:ME information about this innovative national music technology certification curriculum is available at: <http://www.ti-me.org>. Two TI:ME courses will be taught this summer at Dakota Ridge High School. Unfortunately, TI:ME workshop dates are not finalized because John will be teaching in Australia and New Zealand this summer and presenting a web development workshop at the 2005 ASME (Australian Society for Music Education) in Melbourne, Australia, July 3-7, 2005. Within three weeks, all workshop dates will be finalized.

1. "Basic Skills in Music Technology: Electronic Keyboards, MIDI Sequencing, and Notation." - 2.0 credits for four days to be arranged.

2. "Basic Skills in Music Technology: Instructional Software, Communications and Digital Media" - 2.0 credits for four days to be arranged.
How to contact John Kuzmich, Jr.:

http://www.kuzmich.com and jkuzmich@earthlink.net

Summer, 2005 Graduate Level Music Technology Classes for Music Educators

0.5 (7.5 hours), 1.0 (15 hours) and 2.0 (30 hours) Credits Offered by Colorado School of Mines

at Dakota Ridge High School Music Technology Courses

Because Dr. Kuzmich will be teaching music technology in Australia and New Zealand including a web development workshop at the 2005 ASME (Australian Society for Music Education) in Melbourne, Australia, July 3-7, 2005, summer classes at Dakota Ridge High School will be scheduled and finalized within the next few weeks from now. Please contact John and he will finalize the summer schedule soon..

"User-Friendly Music Software for General Classroom Instruction including Sibelius Starclass and Instruments, Music Ace 1 & 2, MIDIsaurus, and Super Dooper Music Looper" - 2.0 graduate credits for four days to be arranged.
"Power Users: Seamless Integration of Sequencing, Notation, Music Scanning and Automatic Accompaniments Generators" - 1.0 graduate credits for two days to be arranged. Great introduction class for learning Power-User software applications.

"Web Development for Music Educators" - 2.0 graduate credits for four days to be arranged. Must class for music educators in learning how to effectively promote their students, concerts and career.

“How to Creatively Use Band-In-A-Box" - 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged.

"Entry-level Finale 2005, Fiinale Guitar and PrintMaster 2004" - 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged.

"Entry-level Sibelius 3.0 and Sibelius G7" - 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged

"Basic Skills in Music Technology: Electronic Keyboards, MIDI Sequencing, and Notation." - 2.0 graduate credits for four days to be arranged. This workshop is a certified TI-ME National Music Technology course.

"Basic Skills in Music Technology: Instructional Software, Communications and Digital Media" - 2.0 graduate credits for four days to be arranged.. This workshop is a certified TI-ME National Music Technology course.

"How to Use SmartMusic and/or iPAS Creatively and Effectively." 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged.

"Digital Recording of Music Concerts and Lectures with Digital Sequencing Software," Superscope PSD 300 and other Digital Recorders. 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged

"Music Scanning with PhotoScore, SharpEye Music Reader and SmartScore" - 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged.

"Digital Audio and Looping with Acid Pro 5.0 and Sound Forge 7.0." 0.5 graduate credits for one day to be arranged.

"High School Music Technology Classes: Especially for Youth" - To Be arranged (7.5 hours of instruction). Special fee: $65 and no charge for student's music teacher attending. : Note: no college credit. Great class for future college music majors!