Artifact 2
http://claysisters.synthasite.com
Artifact 2-Reflection
The next portion of this experience is what I will refer to as Artifact 2, a web site that I created while I was at NCCAT, http://claysisters.synthasite.com/.
I feel that this artifact is significant because it shows the spirit of collaboration that was awakened in me as result of this workshop. Throughout the whole week at NCCAT I took pictures to document our time in the mountains, and pretty soon I became the unofficial photographer. I stopped counting after I took picture number three hundred, and I uploaded all of the pictures www.kodakeasyshare and emailed the link to the participants so that they could have access to the pictures. It felt good to do something for my colleagues.
On our last night at NCCAT I came up with the idea to create a web site to document the experience and to provide a forum for everyone involved. I looked in search engines for a free web-site resource and found www.synthasite.com. I worked until the early morning, but when I finished I had the beginnings of a web site. This exposed me to a new web resource, improved my skills with web-creation and helped me to give back to the educators that were involved in the workshop.
When I returned home that weekend I forwarded the link to my county arts director, to share with other art educators that were interested in attending an NCCAT workshop.