On-Line Web Site Production Workshop

Introduction:

On-site multimedia and interactive web site workshop information was presented in the Upper Sevier, Conasauga and Potomac watersheds during the summer and fall of 2001. These workshops were presented in an audience discussion format. The primary purpose of these “one day” workshops was to familiarize interested watershed community participants with equipment, concepts, techniques and procedures for documenting, creating and maintaining these interactive multimedia watershed web sites.

Multimedia workshops like this can provide logical and useful information that will provide a stimulus for local people to help photograph ongoing events and important places in the watershed. The collection of photographs and videotapes that result can be used to develop web sites, CD-ROMs, or DVD-ROMs now and in the future, to show a broader range of people the importance of long-range watershed restoration efforts. Ideally some of the participants in the workshops will produce and contribute specific photographic, written stories or web development efforts to the watershed web sites in the future.

In addition to the workshops, Mountain Visions suggested that one or more community or town hall meetings be held to help a broader public understand the work that is being done on the web site and the need for community participation. Mountain Visions offered to present one of these meetings as an evening 2-3 hour session on the same day as the workshop. We suggested that this be promoted as an entertaining and fun event. However, for various organizational reasons these community meetings were not organized in any of the watersheds during the 2001 workshops. These types of meetings may be held in the future now that the web sites are fully functional.

View of Cedar Breaks National Monument from Brian Head.

A summary review of the topics presented and discussed during the one day workshop have been placed on the Upper Sevier River Community Watershed Project web site for permanent availability for users of all the Interactive Watersheds web sites. Useful links to a limited number of valuable Internet resources are also included to help participants further investigate each topic in more depth if they are interested.

This Interactive Watershed web site production workshop is divided into the following topics:

• Detailed Overview of the Interactive Watershed Template Design and Interactivity
  
  
• Basic Photography, including digital camera use.
  
  
• Digital Image Processing, including how to process images for web usage.
  
  
• Basic Digital Video, including cameras, sound, computer and editing systems.
  
  
• 360º Panorama production, including cameras, tripod heads, and software.
  
  
• Basic Web Site development, navigation ideas and production element.
  
  
• Advanced Web Site production techniques.
  
  
• Community Demonstration of the Web site/CD project