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

[Laurie Savage]

Thanks! Yes, we're offering Units 1&2 Multimedia in Years 10 and 11 this 
year as well as 3&4. We have a couple of excellent teachers in the area.

Laurie

Claire wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
>>>
>>> We run an animation competition - our students work with Flash MX and
>>> have been exposed to it since about year 8 or 9.
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> We have students using Illustrator, Fireworks and Photoshop. Completing
>>> projects and extending existing projects.
>>>
>>> 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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