Week 4

This week I updated forms on the electronic database. The Student Advisory Board (an assembly of high school and college students that meet to advise and assist in generation and implementation of new programs at ProMusica, designed to educate the community) officers form and information form needed updated in MS word documents.

I sent a fax to Davis Piano Moving to book the times that the concert grand piano will need to be moved for each performance next season.

I helped Julia create an online survey (survey monkey) about different networking tools (facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.). I emailed the survey to administrators of Columbus area fine arts organizations and am waiting to process and analyze their responses. The survey is intended to see which networking tools different organizations use and how they use them within the organization, whether it be for personal use or to broadcast news to many people. By processing their responses we hope to make a conclusion about the usefulness of the different networking tools that have become available.

I worked in MS excel to make a spreadsheet of all the members and contact information of the Student Advisory Board.

I designed an invitation to be sent out to the Board of Trustees, Musicians, and special guests for ProMusica's End of Season Reception to be held on June 17th.

I sent in the list of world and regional premieres that ProMusica will perform during its 2009-2010 season to the League of American Orchestras for its Symphony survey, where all major orchestras' premieres are listed.

Julia gave me a [grant] project proposal to read from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. The project involves helping Columbus area schools create assessment tools and program requirements for out-of-classroom activities in which high school students may earn credit, also called "credit flexibility". From what I understand, the state mandated that it is possible for students to receive credit for activities in which they are assessed outside of the classroom, but individual school districts are responsible for coming up with specific programs and criteria in which to evaluate those programs. The proposal was fairly vague and GCAC is basically saying that it (and other arts organizations around Columbus) wants to help schools/administrators develop assessment procedures, generate and implement programs that align with the assessment procedures, and make these programs accessible to all students in the Columbus area. I am curious to see what kinds of actual programs they will come up with and how students will be asked to prove their competency in a subject.