Birth of a website: The Diction Domain™ and educational website development
Authors
Yvonne R. Dechance
University of New Mexico
Candace A. Magner
University of New Mexico
Author Biographies
Yvonne R. Dechance, University of New Mexico
YVONNE RENÉ DECHANCE is a music educator, performer and webpage designer. She holds a D.M.A. in Voice Performance and M.M. in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from The University of Texas at Austin, and the Bachelor of Arts from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. She is a teacher of Voice and Opera History, an active performer and recitalist, and a member of several professional organizations including the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Mu Phi Epsilon. Yvonne has taught in Washington State, California, Texas, and North Carolina. Currently she teaches voice at her private studio in the San Francisco Bay Area, and runs Dechance Studios, a professional web design service.
Dr. Dechance is particularly interested in combining music education and technology. Her projects include using hypermedia programming to create educational voice diction software, and she is the web-developer and co-author of The Diction Domain™ website. In addition, she enjoys creating technical and motivational speeches, presentations and articles and encouraging and assisting others to introduce web-based technologies into their professional lives and curricula. She recently published "The Music Educator's Personal-Professional Website" for the NATS InterNos, which includes an online companion tutorial (http://over.to/examples) to assist novices in the creation of "Personal-Professional" webpages.