[Year 12 IPM] OT: Girls in IT (was LAN gaming)

[Claire]

Hi Laurie,
Congratulations, you and your colleagues are obviously doing a great job.
Do you offer VET Multimedia? Sounds like you have all the basics covered 
and the ideal clientele.
Claire Bloom
Warrandyte High


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>>We run an animation competition - our students work with Flash MX and
>>have been exposed to it since about year 8 or 9.
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>>We teach web design quite extensively (I'm afraid I am a stickler fro
>>standards and accessibilty) and students need to maintain their web
>>pages, and while this often consists of finding yet another animated
>>background, they are maintaining them with Notepad or Dreamweaver!
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>>We have students using Illustrator, Fireworks and Photoshop. Completing
>>projects and extending existing projects.
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>>They are having fun, learning industry standard software and quite a
>>few
>>have moved into the industry. I have senior students running small
>>design boutiques for their friends' bands or Freeza committees.
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