Music Technology II  Electronic Portfolio
The electronic portfolio assignment will take the form of a website. The website will include all of your assignments from Radio Commercials through Film Scoring.

Electronic Portfolios

This assignment will take the form of a website. This website will include all the topics studied in the course. 
Each topic will have its own page:

The Art of Foley - Sound Effects/Soundscapes

Jingle/Commercial

Film Scoring

Each page must include the following:
1. sample files of your work. MP3, Word Doc, etc.
2. Descriptions of the topic. 
3. What software you used to complete the assignments and how you used it.
4. What I learned during this unit. 
5. Resource links for topic (ex. links to movie studios, jingle houses, etc.)
 Be as detailed as you can. This will be your last grade for the class. Impress me! 
For this assignment you will be using Microsoft Front Page. 

Grading Rubric for Electronic Portfolio

Resource links for Electronic Portfolio

Criteria for Topic Pages

Home Page - Your home page should include a description of Music Tech II, links for the following pages: 
1. Sound Effects/Soundscapes, 2. Jingles/Commercials, 3. Film Scoring.

Each page must include

Description of the topic with historical information and links to websites. Make each page so that someone not in this class can find out as much information as possible about each topic. Include as many samples of your work as you can. MIDI files, MP3, Scoring Assignments, etc.

Design - Layout of each page

This will be up to you. Try to make each page as "Friendly" as you can. Keep reviewing the links about regarding Evaluating Bad Web Designs for tips.

This assignment will be your final grade of the class. Impress Me!!!!

Creating Websites

Bad Web Pages

What makes a good website
1.  Does the page load quickly?
2.  Is the website clear in what it is about 
3.  Is the information you need easy to find?
4.  Is the site easy to navigate around?
5.  The look of the site:  Too busy looking or Too much space? 

Basic Rules for creating a good website

First rule for a good website is to keep your index or homepage simple. 

Second rule for a good website is to have the same design features throughout the site. Use the same design elements throughout your website, e.g. background graphic or color, text colors, logos, accent graphics such as bullets and lines, etc. Again keep these elements simple!

third rule of a good website is to keep your design clean and simple. It's best to use light colors for the background and not use background graphics unless they are very simple.

fourth rule of a good website is to use small, uncomplicated, quick-loading graphics.

fifth rule of a good website is to keep your WebPages short! It is much better and even preferable to split the information among several pages, rather than have it all on one page

sixth rule of a good website is to provide multiple links. The most important link is the one at the bottom of each page pointing back to your index or homepage so surfers can get back to their starting point, or find your homepage if they entered your site on one of your secondary pages. You can also put links on the bottom of the page to other major pages on your website. And it's a good idea to put related links on related pages

What's wrong with the above Rules for creating a good website?

Examples of the above rules