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Digital Media/Web Productions

MT. PLEASANT AREA TECHNICAL CENTER
Digital Media/Web Production I, II, III
Course Syllabus 6/2008


INSTRUCTOR: Pat Onstott                                            


MICHIGAN CAREER PATHWAYS: Business/Management/ Marketing & Technology


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CAREER CLUSTERS: Information Technology


PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Students will follow a project-based curriculum designed to introduce them to 2D and 3D design, video, animation, special effects, imaging, audio, and film production aspects of the digital media, as well as, website design and development. Industry standard software tools are used to assist the student in completing projects. The program cluster consists of three strands: Digital Design, Website Design and Development, and 3D and Animation. The skills attained become the foundation for producing graphic designs for the web, multimedia, and 3D and animation for various industries. Students will develop team management, communication, time management and problem-solving skills.


PROGRAM CIP CODE: 11.0801                                                           P.S.N. 19382


SOFTWARE: Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Fireworks, Bryce 3D, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, music editing software, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash , Macromedia Director, Html, Dhtml, Javascript, and PHP.


SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM: This course will prepare students for various careers in the video game, TV, movie, and website design industries. Advanced students will have the opportunity to receive the ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) for Adobe products, CIW (Certified Internet Webmaster Designer) and the Macromedia Certification for various Macromedia products. Work based and internships opportunities are available. Completion of this course will prepare the student to take Adobe Certification, Website Design Certification, or Multimedia Certification.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES: Opportunities are available for students to improve their occupational knowledge, skills and leadership through CTSO membership, competitions, community volunteer projects, student-led meetings, and/or intra-curricular activities. In a positive experiential learning environment, students develop leadership and management skills, responsibility and self-confidence, communication and decision making skills, good citizenship and respect for other cultures, as well as a basic understanding of parliamentary procedures. These activities help students set and realize their career goals, and instill a sense of the duty and responsibility associated with being a role model, mentor, volunteer and future community leader.

JOB TITLES AVAILABLE                                     JOB TITLES REQUIRING FURTHER
AT MPATC:                                                            TRAINING/CERTIFICATION/EDUCATION:

Computer Customer Service                            Graphic Artist/Designer        Special Effects Artist

Computer Animation Designer                        Production Artist                     2D/3D Programmer

Storyboard Artist                                                  Multimedia Engineer             Multimedia Illustrator

Game Developer                                                 2D/3D Designer                     Creative Director

Web Designer                                                      Web Administrator                 Systems Engineer

Web Maintenance Technician                          HTML Script Writer                  Webmaster

Web Site Technician                                          Multimedia Specialist             Information Designer

Videographer                                                       Forensics Artist                       Project Manager

                                                                                Storyboard Artist                     Web Developer

                                                                                Interface Designer                 Audio Engineer

                                                                                Software Engineer                 Cartoonist

                                                                                Package Designer        

 

 

 

Link to State Curriculum/Segments:

 

 
 

 

MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

Content Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area

(120 Total Content Standards)

Digital Media/Web Production

 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)

   Meaning and Communication:

1. All students will read and comprehend general and technical material.

Voice :

2. All students will learn to communicate information accurately and effectively and

demonstrate their expressive abilities by creating oral, written, and visual texts that enlighten and engage an audience.

Skills and Processes:

3. All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect upon the skills and processes used

to communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing.

Genre and Craft of Language:

4. All students will explore and use the characteristics of different types of texts,

aesthetic elements, and mechanics - including text structure, figurative and descriptive language, spelling, punctuation, and grammar - to construct and convey meaning.

Ideas in Action:

5. All students will apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and

the lives of others.

Inquiry and Research:

6. All students will define and investigate important issues and problems using a variety of

resources, including technology, to explore and create texts.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES (24 Content Standards)

Inquiry:

•  All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.

•  All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a questions, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypothesis, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology.

 

SCIENCE (15 Content Standards)

Construct New Scientific and Personal Knowledge:

•  All students will ask questions that help them learn about the world; design and

conduct investigations using appropriate methodology and technology; learn from books

and other sources of information; communicate their findings using appropriate technology; and reconstruct previously learned knowledge.

 

MATHEMATICS (13 Content Standards)

   Patterns, Relationships and Functions:

  1. Students recognize similarities and generalize patterns, use patterns to create

models and make predictions, describe the nature of patterns and relationships, and construct representations of mathematical relationships.

2. Students describe the relationships among variables, predict what will happen to one

variable as another variable is changed, analyze natural variation and sources of variability, and compare patterns of change.

Geometry and Measurement:

  3. Students develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and descriptive tool, identify

characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and describe relationships among shapes.

4. Students identify locations of objects, identify location relative to other objects,

and describe the effects of transformations (e.g. sliding, flipping, turning, enlarging, reducing) on an object.

5. Students compare attributes of two objects, or of one object with a standard (unit),

and analyze situations to determine what measurement(s) should be made and to what level of precision.

Data Analysis and Statistics:

6. Student draw defensible inferences about unknown outcomes, make predictions, and

identify the degree of confidence they have in their predictions.

Probability and Discrete Mathematics:

7. Students develop an understanding of the notion of certainty and of probability as a

measure of the degree of likelihood that can be assigned to a given event based on the knowledge available, and make critical judgments about claims that are made in probabilistic situations.

8. Students investigate practical situations such as scheduling, routing, sequencing,

networking, organizing and classifying, and analyze ideas such as recurrence relations, induction, iteration, and algorithm design.

 

CAREER AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 Content Standards)

   Applied Skills:

•  All students will apply basic communication skills (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, and listening), apply scientific and social studies concepts, and perform mathematical processes in work-related situations.

Career Planning:

•  All students will acquire, organize, interpret, and evaluate information from career

awareness and exploration activities, career assessment, and work-based experiences to identify and pursue their career goals.

Developing and Presenting Information:

•  All students will demonstrate the ability to combine ideas or information in new ways, make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, and organize and present information in formats such as symbols, pictures, schematics, charts, and graphs.

Problem Solving:

•  All students will make decisions and solve problems by specifying goals, identifying resources and constraints, generating alternatives, considering impacts, choosing appropriate alternatives, and evaluating results.

Personal Management:

•  All students will display personal qualities such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior, and respect for self and others.

Organizational Skills:

6. All students will identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources (such as time, money,

materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.

Teamwork:

7. All students will work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and

will contribute to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and efforts.

Understanding Systems and Using Technology:

8. All students will understand complex systems, including social and technical systems, and

work with a variety of technologies.

Using Employability Skills:

9. All students will integrate employability skills into behaviors which prepare one for

obtaining, maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.

 

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (8 Content Standards)

 

TECHNOLOGY (6 Content Standards)

   Using and Transferring:

•  All students will use and transfer technological knowledge and skills for life roles.

Using Information Technologies:

2. All students will use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and

communicate information.

Applying Appropriate Technologies:

3. All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression,

and decision-making skills.

Employing Systematic Approach:

4. All students will employ a systematic approach to technological solutions by using

resources and processes to create, maintain, and improve products, systems, and environments.

Applying Standards:

5. All students will apply ethical and legal standards in planning, using, and evaluating

technology.

Evaluating and Forecasting:

6. All students will evaluate the societal and environmental impacts of technology and

forecast alternative uses and possible consequences to make informed civic, social, and

economic decisions.

 

HEALTH EDUCATION (7 Content Standards)

 

ARTS EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts - 5 Content Standards)

 

WORLD LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)

LIFE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)

  

                                                                                                                                    Revised: 1/26/2010

 


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