Technology

Courses Taught By Mr. Gruber

Interactive Media

The Interactive Media courses provide students with the knowledge and skills to create, design, and produce interactive media products and services. The courses may emphasize the development of digitally generated and/ or computer enhanced media. Course topics may include 3D animation, graphic media, web development, and virtual reality. Upon completion of these courses, students may be prepared for industry certification.

Particular Topics/Media Technology

Provides students with work experience in fields related to media technology. Goals are typically set cooperatively by the student, teacher, and employer. These courses may include classroom activities as well, involving further study of the field or discussion regarding experiences.

Web Page Design

This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of hypertext markup language (HTML) and teach the fundamentals of using graphical user interface (GUI) applications for web page design. Included will be the development of personal web pages, commercial web pages, and development/maintenance of the Sabetha High School web site. After completion of this course, students will be able to create web pages using hypertext, hyperlinks, tables, forms, graphics, and style sheets. Students will be able to use Adobe Dreamweaver in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, and Windows Moviemaker to create multifaceted web sites.

AP Computer Science

AP Computer Science Principles is an introductory college-level computing course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. They incorporate abstraction into programs and use data to discover new knowledge. Students also explain how computing innovations and computing systems—including the internet—work, explore their potential impacts, and contribute to a computing culture that is collaborative and ethical.