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Digital Media

Title

Digital Media

Duration

Suggested Duration: 20 hours

Pre-requisites

Participants are required to be familiar with a modern operating system (Windows, Mac OS, etc) and be comfortable with basic ICT tasks (opening, editing, saving, closing files, etc).
Target AudiencePrimary and Post Primary teachers who wish to learn about how to use digital media to enhance their teaching
Course Objectives

This course gives an introduction to digital media.  It looks at the use of the scanner, for capturing images and text, the use of the digital camera, digital recording and editing of sound, capturiing images and sound files from the Internet and showing how these files can be used in a word processing package and also in a multimedia package.

Course Topics

Scanners

Digital Photography

Introduction to the use of sound in Multimedia Authoring

Editing Images

Using Software Applications