STME 616 Web Design for Your School Music Program

3 credits 42.0 hours
600 level graduate course

This course explores a wide spectrum of free and inexpensive online tools that will help you create an effective and attractive website that can highlight your music program’s curriculum, provide lesson resources for students, share school performances and important information for parents, and much, much more! Using a template-based website creation tool called Weebly, participants will learn the ins and outs of adding text, images, audio and video to design and customize webpages. No coding knowledge necessary! In addition, easy-to-use online tools for creating and editing images, a blog, an audio podcast, a video screencast, and embedding G-Suite documents, YouTube videos, and Spotify playlists will be explored. This course is suitable for all teachers and can be completed using a desktop/laptop running any operating system, or a Chromebook.

This course may be completed 2 times for credit.