BROADCASTING I
0.5 credit (one semester)
Grade Appropriate: 9-12
This course meets the computer technology graduation requirement.
BROADCASTING II
0.5 credit (one semester)
Grade Appropriate: 9-12
This course meets the computer technology graduation requirement.
0.5 credit (one semester)
Grade Appropriate: 9-12
This course is designed to enhance and enrich your keyboarding skills (speed and accuracy being the main focus), touch on the essentials of word processing, produce programs, and create work place documents. Realizing the need to practice proper keyboarding daily, we will make use of a computer program as well as a college keyboarding textbook to add flexibility to the curriculum. This course meets the computer technology graduation requirement.
0.5 credit (one semester)
Grade appropriate: 9-12
Digital Media I is an introductory course that dives into digitized content that can be transmitted over the internet or computer networks. This course is designed to focus on taking and editing still images, editing and creating graphic images, and the beginning of web design. Students will use combinations of photoshop, imovie, premier elements, photobooth, garageband, google suites, weebly, and wix to create original, digital work. This course meets the computer technology graduation requirement.
0.5 credit (one semester)
Digital Media II is an extension of DM I. Students will learn to edit video using a professional program (Adobe Premier) and begin to learn coding for websites. We believe that the optimal way to learn basic web design skills is to learn how to hand-code valid XHTML and CSS, without the use of advanced tools such as Dreamweaver or an ultra-easy website like weebly.com. This course is designed to give you the foundational understanding of basic coding should you move on to seek more advanced knowledge and skills. This course meets the computer technology graduation requirement.
0.5 credit
Grade Appropriate: 10-12
Every year, high schools across America are faced with the daunting task of creating a yearbook that will provide all students with a memory book of their high school year. This class will be the core of the yearbook staff that will take on this task. Students will learn the basics of yearbook journalism including theme, coverage, copy, design, and photography. The yearbook is now a digital yearbook with the book being created online at the Josten’s website.
You will be able to demonstrate journalistic concepts with specific events occurring during the school year. You will also be responsible for putting together the yearbook for the current school year, and in so doing will learn many different aspects of publishing – desktop publishing, digital photography, editing, advertising, financial planning, journalism, and many more topics. This course meets the computer technology graduation requirement.