Common TEKS

• Copyright
• Design Principles
• Technical Documentation
• hardware
• File Formats
• Networking
• Careers
• Image Capture
• Evaluation/Analysis
• Web orientation

WEB MASTERY

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the fastest growing part of the Internet. The popularity of the WWW is due largely to the ease with which users can not only access and navigate the web but also create pages of information to share with others. Resources abound on the web; however, efficient strategies to find the needed information must be learned.

This course focuses on scripting, developing searching strategies, publishing skills, and serving information on a web server. Ultimately, students, within an ethical framework, will be the webmasters for the class, school, or district, participating in a real global community of learners and collaborators. Students enrolled in this course will be computer literate and have the basic electronic productivity tools.

A prerequisite for this course is grades 6-8 Technology Applications Knowledge and Skills.

• Access and navigate the web
• Learn web scripting
• Development strategies
• Design strategies
• Web publishing skills
• Hypertext Markup Language
• Java Scripting
• Web Page editors
• Web Server Management
• Publishing Skills

MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia is a laboratory-based course designed to provide an overview of and experience in multimedia technology. Sounds, images, graphics, and video are the informational projects from which students will construct media rich knowledge structures.

Students will develop necessary skills and obtain hands-on experiences working with a variety of multimedia tools to build linear and non-linear interactive products. Students enrolled in this course will be computer literate and have experience with basic electronic productivity tools. A prerequisite for this course is grades 6-8 Technology Applications Knowledge and Skills.

• Project based course
• Incorporate sound, images, graphics, and video for informational projects
• Hand-on experience to build linear and non linear interactive products

DIGITAL GRAPHICS & ANIMATION

Digital Graphics and Animation (motion graphics) is an introductory course in design, typography, and imaging techniques. The course includes topics such as digital composition, color, imaging, editing, and animation. An integral component in other areas, understanding design elements is essential in the creation of a successful product in this course. The student will use the computer's set of tools, common to bitmapped and object-oriented software programs, to produce and edit digital designs as well as to incorporate design principles when capturing digital images with the scanner and camera.

Students will work with color, resolution, and halftones as well as other image enhancing strategies including outlining, cropping, digital manipulation, color correction, masking, and the use of channels, paths, background, and layers. Animation, both 2-D and 3-D, will be introduced in this course.

Students enrolled in this course will be computer literate and have experience with the basic electronic productivity and telecommunication tools. A prerequisite for this course is grades 6-8 Technology Applications Knowledge and Skills.

• Project based course
• Produce and edit digital designs
• Visual Literacy
• Vector/raster Management
• Color Theory
• Use of a variety of software programs for graphics creation
• Design Principles
• Project Overviews
• Animation Concepts
• Sound Editing
• Presentation Portfolio

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Desktop Publishing combines the skills of electronic design, editing, and production of a product using a variety of hardware and software tools.

• Project based course
• Focuses on job related, real world experiences
• Hands on experience using a variety of software tools
• Design techniques are instilled to allow for a variety of formatted projects, that include the following competencies:
  - Layout &Design
  - Photo Management
  - Image Manipulation
  - Type & Font Management
  - Production Formatting
  - Marketing & Sales

VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

Video production is probably the most universally known of all visual media and is an integral component of many technology applications. The process of editing creates a special mood, tempo, and pace to enhance the subject matter. Video production is not only instructional and analytical, but also artistic.

Students will learn video basics as well as participate in pre-production, production, and post production stages of video creation, distribution, and evaluation of the product. Students enrolled in this course will be computer literate and have experience with the basic electronic productivity tools. A prerequisite for this course is grades 6-8 Technology Applications TEKS.

• Pre-Production
  - Storyboarding
• Production
  - Use and creation of visual media
  - Camera Techniques
  - Lighting
  - Editing skills to create mood, tempo, and pace according to subject matter
• Post Production
  - Editing
  - Marketing & Presentation

TEA, (2003). High School Technology Applications Course Descriptions.
          Retrieved August 15, 2007, from Texas Education Agency
          Web site: www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/techapp/instruct/hs/description.htm