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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Web Design & Digital Development
This course focuses on all aspects of web site design and creation. This course will focus on four key skill areas related to web design and digital content; project management and collaboration, digital design processes, research and communication, and professional web authoring tools. The course will start out with the fundamentals of web design and spiral into more challenging skills as the year goes on. Projects will focus on the entire process of real world web design, focusing on all of the steps from project planning to evaluation and website launch and implementation. This course will allow for Adobe certifications in Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks software.
Digital Video & Computer Animation
This course introduces students to the latest in digital video production, post production, special effects and 2D/3D animation. All areas of video creation and production will be explored from determining audience to camera angles/shots, filming, editing, sound, titling and special effects. Students will also gain experience with DVD creation/authoring, as well as formatting video for web and devices. Students will also explore applications of 2D and 3D animation as they relate to video creation/production. Professional level software including Adobe Premiere, Soundbooth, Photoshop, After Effects and other programs will be utilized in this class. Students projects may include (but are not limited to) digital video commercials, documentaries, instructional videos, music videos, public service announcements, special events, newscasts and interviews. An Adobe Digital Video certification will be available for students that choose to pursue this option.
Technology Innovation & Design
Pre-requisite: Any Two Technology Education Courses
This course is a project based Technology and Engineering research course in which students will work independently and collaboratively within diversely skilled groups to research, develop, design and create solutions to their own, school, community, or worldwide needs. Students will get to spend considerable time planning for and working on Technology and Engineering Design projects that will be entered into competitions at the Regional, State, and National level.
Computer Science Principles AP
Pre-requisite: Honors Computer Science and Software Engineering
Computer science embraces problem solving, hardware, algorithms, and perspectives that help people utilize computers to address real-world problems in contemporary life. Throughout the course, students will design, implement, and analyze solutions to problems. Students in AP Computer Science will use standard data structures, develop and select appropriate algorithms and data structures to solve new problems, write solutions fluently in an object-oriented paradigm, write, run, test, and debug solutions in the Java programming language, utilizing standard Java library classes and interfaces from the AP Java subset.
Credits: 1 Length: Full Year Grade: 10-12
Credits: 1 Length: Full Year Grade: 10-12
Credits: 1 Length: Full Year Grade: 11-12
Credits: 1 Length: Full Year Grade: 11-12
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