Jan 17 2007
Curriculum
Curriculum is based on a 2 year cycle. Classes include a mix of 6th and 7th grade students.
Year One:
- Writing a handbook: An introduction to technical writing and how to write instructions for use.
- Pixels and Photoshop
- The Digital Collage – techniques and meaning
- Introduction to Dancing Turtles (Microworlds and LOGO programming)
- What defines a successful computer game?
- Creating a game using Microworlds.
- DigitalPortfolios using iWeb
Year Two:
- My Life Story: a history and timeline of computers
- Animation – an introduction
- Photoshop frame-by-frame animations
- StopMotion using iStopMotion
- Scratch Animations and Programming
- Creating animations using Flash
- HTML and using Dreamweaver to create websites
- Designing your Digital Portfolio



