The various areas that will be touched on in this course will be:


Animation
program - Macromedia Flash


Photo & Text Manipulation
program - Photoshop 4.01

advanced text effects

advanced photo retouching / digital enhancement

use of filters

Practical
reformat & partition hard disk

clean reinstall of operating system

peer-to-peer networking

Programming
program - Borland C++ v.4.5

a review of:
  • input/output statements
  • conditional statements (if...else)
  • loops
  • functions

    programming in graphics mode

    programming simple animations

  • Technology Vocabulary

    Students will add to the computer vocabulary acquired in Information Technology 11.

    Web Page Design/Construction
    browser - Internet Explorer and CSE Validator Lite

    web page construction (several styles)

    advanced HTML techniques:
  • forms
  • javascript
  • css stylesheets

    organizing a web site (i.e. folder hierarchy)

    creation of a multi-page web site

    uploading of site to World Wide Web

  • Evaluation
    Students will be given frequent short multiple choice tests to check their understanding of technological terms, 'computer trivia' and application knowledge. Students will be assigned a number of individual projects during each section of the course to help evaluate their practical skills. This course will have a final exam that consists of a short general knowledge section and a practical section where a student will have to demonstrate his/her abilities in one of the practical areas of the course, i.e. html, programming, animation, photo/text manipulation. The final exam will account for 20% of a student's final grade. Class work will account for the rest.