Our community is located in the Diablo Valley area of Northern California. We are about thirty miles east of San Francisco. Our project focuses primarily on the suburban cities of Walnut Creek , Concord, and Pleasant Hill. We have created a resource that lists information about the wide variety of music groups in our community. Students have visited rehearsals and concerts of several organizations to learn about the musicians and the music they perform.
Students share their experiences through written comments, original art, photos, and sound samples.
At our school, we used a Macintosh computer connected to the Internet through America Online on a regular phone line. The modem speed is 28,800 bps. Mrs. Faires is not a full time classroom teacher and she did not have full access to the school computer. Consequently, she entered the project on her home computer, a PC with a 14,400 bps modem, and uploaded the project via America Online's FTP service. The first problem was identifying the music groups in our community.