PowerPoint - Level One

Description

In this two day workshop, participants will use Microsoft PowerPoint to create a multimedia presentation. Topics to be covered include basic PowerPoint features, importing graphics and sounds from multiple sources, and custom animation.

Topics

  • Day One

    • Slides

    • Placeholders

    • Working In Slide View

    • Adding Content

    • Slide Show View

    • Bulleted Lists

    • Formatting Fonts

    • Working In Outline View

    • Slide Sorter View

    • Animations and Transitions

    • Design Templates

    • Graphics

    • Adding Text to Graphics and Drawings

    • Display Rules

    • Text and Color Issues

    • Projection media

    • Clip Gallery and Design Gallery Live

    • AutoShapes

    • Backgrounds Fills and Layers

    • Patterns

  • Day Two

    • Formatting the Background

    • Text Box Tool

    • Using Graphics from the Web

    • Techniques for Manipulating Graphics

    • Slide master

    • Fill Color, Line Color, and Line Style Tools

    • Drawing Tools

    • Inserting Movies and Sounds

    • Automating Movies and Sounds

    • Using Group and Ungroup

    • More Custom Animation

    • Action Buttons

    • Using Microsoft Graph to Create Static and Dynamic Charts

    • Animating Charts

    • Linking and Embedding Excel Charts

PowerPoint - Level Two (Custom Animations)

Description

The primary focus of this workshop is custom animations. You will learn how to use the custom animation task pane to create unique and intricate entry, emphasis, and exit animations as well as custom path animations. Other topics include... (PowerPoint 2002 (XP) or greater is required.)

  • Saving As a Webpage

  • Creating and Animating Charts and Graphs

  • Creating a Photo Album

  • Creating Custom PowerPoint Templates

  • Creating Custom Screen Savers

  • Using Animation Schemes

PowerPoint - Special Topics

Description

If the topics covered in Level One and Level Two don't meet your needs, we can custom design a workshop just for you. That is the purpose of the Special Topics workshops. We can create a PowerPoint workshop that will cover any features and functions of the program about which you need to learn. Just let us know.

 

Adobe Photoshop - Level One

Description

In this two day workshop participants will cover the basics of Photoshop  which includes using the Photoshop interface and tips and techniques for preparing and editing graphics. The workshop will consist of step-by-step instructions for creating specific projects.

Topics

  • Opening Files
  • Using Tools
  • Viewing Images
  • Working With Palettes
  • Using Context Menu
  • Jumping to ImageReady
  • Working With Selections
  • Selection Tools
  • Transforming a Selection
  • Cropping Images
  • Using Layers
  • Creating and Viewing Layers
  • Selecting and Removing Artwork
  • Rearranging Layers
  • Adding a Gradient to a Layer
  • Adding Text
  • Applying Layer Style
  • Flattening and Saving Files
  • Working With Masks and Channels
  • Creating a Quick Mask
  • Editing a Quick Mask
  • Saving a Selection as a Mask
  • Editing a Mask
  • Loading a Mask as a Selection and Applying an Adjustment
  • Extracting an Image
  • Applying a Filter effect to a Masked Selection
  • Creating a Gradient Mask
  • Applying Effects Using a Gradient Mask

Adobe Photoshop - Level Two

Description

This two day workshop will build and expand upon the skills learned in the Level One workshop.

Topics

 

Adobe Photoshop - Level Three

Description

This two day workshop will continue to build on skills learned in the first two workshops. Focus will be on specific techniques, tips, and tricks.

Topics

 

Adobe Illustrator - Level One (Vector Graphics)

Description

Participants will learn the basics of using Adobe Illustrator for creating vector graphics. The workshop will consist of step-by-step instructions for creating specific projects.

Topics

  • The shape tools
  • Creating and modifying shapes
  • Line tools
  • Grid tools
  • Point text
  • Area text
  • Path text
  • Pathfinder tools
  • Line colors and fills
  • Text effects
  • Layering graphics
  • Compound paths
  • Clipping masks
  • Using templates
  • Free distortions
  • Airbrush effects using the mesh tool

Adobe Premiere Pro - Level One

Description

Adobe Premiere Pro is the "premiere" video editing package for educators. In this two day workshop participants will learn the basics of using Adobe Premiere Pro to create professional looking videos.

Topics

  • Creating a new project
  • The Premiere Interface
  • Importing Source Clips
  • Assembling the rough cut
  • Organizing source files
  • Unlinking video and audio
  • Trimming clips on the timeline
  • Trimming clips in the source window
  • Using black video
  • Changing the speed/duration of a clip
  • Inserting audio
  • Adding transitions
  • Transition settings
  • Motion and opacity keyframes
  • Exporting stills
  • Using the Titler
  • Rolling Credits
  • Applying video effects
  • Rendering to AVI
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Capturing video from you DV Camera

Adobe Premiere - Level Two

Description

This workshop builds on the video editing skills learned in the level one workshop.

Topics

  • Nesting sequences
  • Scale keyframes
  • Keyframe interpolation
  • Blur effects
  • Keyframing video effects
  • Lens flare
  • Using track-mattes
  • Advanced motion and opacity keyframing
  • Animating titles
  • Animating mattes and masks
  • Advanced track matting
  • Green screen and blue screen techniques
  • Color keying
  • Animation objects

Macromedia Flash - Level One

Description

In this one day workshop participants will learn to create Flash animations and interactive web graphics using Macromedia Flash.

Topics Covered:

  • Flash Interface
  • Drawing Flash objects
  • Frame by Frame animation
  • Motion Tweening
  • Shape Tweening
  • Path Animation
  • Creating buttons
  • Adding sound to buttons
  • Creating interactive Flash projects
  • Publishing your Flash project

The GIMP - "Almost Photoshop"

Description

I like to call the GIMP “Almost Photoshop… For Free.” The GIMP is a powerful photo editing open source program. That means that you can download, install and use it for free. While it doesn’t have all the features that you will find in Photoshop, it is a complete digital photo editing package that you will be able to use for almost any photo editing task.

Topics

  • The GIMP Interface

  • Cropping photos

  • Drawing tools

  • Selection tools

  • Fill tools

  • Feathering a selection

  • Blending modes

  • Layers

  • Adding text to a picture

  • Tool options

  • Creating composites

  • Transformations

  • Filters

  • Hue-Saturation

  • Removing Red-eye

  • Enhancing photos

  • Levels

Premiere Elements

Description

So Adobe Premiere Pro is too expensive or too involved for you but you want more power than you get with Movie Maker. Adobe Premiere Elements may well be the answer to you digital video editing needs. Adobe Premiere Elements offers the perfect combination of creative control, reliability, and ease of use for beginning video editor. It automates tedious tasks so you're free to create cool effects and transitions and easily burn DVDs. It has many advanced (yet easy to use) features that you don’t find on other comparably priced video editing packages. Plus, it is the perfect introduction to two advanced video editing programs, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.

Topics

  • Digitizing you video

  • Creating a rough cut on the timeline

  • Transitions

  • Cutting Clips

  • Special effects

  • Titles…

  • And much more

Adobe Photoshop Elements

Description           

In this one day workshop participants will learn how to perfect, transform, organize, and share digital photos like a pro. Photoshop Elements provides powerful photo editing functionality plus intuitive organizing and sharing capabilities.

Topics

Microsoft Movie Maker

Description

Movie Maker is a free (that’s right, I said free) digital video editing tool that comes with Windows XP. In this one day workshop participants will learn how to create and edit a video, how to create the “21st Century” version of the family vacation (or class field trip… or history or language arts or science multimedia project that utilizes graphics) slide show.

Topics

  • Importing source files

  • Assembling a rough cut

  • Editing clips in the timeline

  • Transitions

  • Video effects

  • Titles

  • Voice-overs

  • Background music

  • Rolling credits

  • Rendering for the web

  • Rendering an AVI

Microsoft Producer

Description

Microsoft Producer is a free (that’s right, I said free) program from Microsoft that allows you to synchronize a PowerPoint presentation (must be XP or greater) with audio, video, voice-overs, and web pages to create a powerful multimedia presentation that your students won’t soon forget. In this one day workshop, “Maximizing Multimedia,” participants will learn to basics of using the program to create powerful, media rich presentations that can be put on the web or distributed via CD’s or DVD’s.

The easiest way to see what this program will do is take a look at a sample. Click here to see a sample. Another (incomplete) sample can be seen here. These files contain videos so they will take a few minutes to download. Be patient.

Topics

  • Creating a new presentation using the Wizard

  • Importing slides, stills, audio, and video

  • Arranging source files on the timelines

  • Using templates

  • Inserting HTML

  • Capturing audio and video

  • Synchronizing slides, audio, video, and HTM

  • Effects and transitions

  • Creating and customizing an introduction page

  • Customizing the table of contents

  • Publishing a presentation

  • Archiving projects

Camtasia

Description

Camtasia Studio is a complete solution for quickly creating professional-looking videos of your PC desktop activity. Participants will learn to record and create a full-motion video tutorials or presentations, in real-time, and publish them in the format of their choice. No multimedia or programming experience necessary!

Topics

  • Camtasia interface
  • Recording video, capturing the screen
  • Importing source files
  • Organizing source files
  • Adding callouts
  • Using the Camtasia timeline
  • Transitions
  • Editing video in the timeline
  • Audio in your project
  • Zoom
  • Flash Hotspots
  • Producing a movie
  • Preparing for CD or DVD distribution
  • Preparing files for distribution via the web