Interactive Multimedia Design: Grades 11, 12

The student will develop and apply concepts related to human relations, safety, career development, communications, and leadership skills for a global workplace.

The student will demonstrate a comprehension of the terminology materials, technologies, media, components and their working relationship utilized within the industry.

The student will research and apply knowledge of copyright within the industry.

The student will research and apply typography, layout/design, and composition concepts and guidelines for preparation of a multimedia project.

The student will organize information and communicate ideas by visualizing space configurations and movements.

The student will relate and apply artistic knowledge, skills, and techniques to the production of various projects.

The student will communicate ideas and information using a multimedia presentation to target audiences for a variety of purposes.

The student will evaluate the purposes, functions, and features used in preparing digital communication.

The student will collaborate with peers, experts, and others to develop a finished interactive multimedia project.

Demonstrate sensitivity to personal, societal, corporate, and governmental responsibility to community and global issues.

Demonstrate the interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills needed to function in diverse business settings, including the global marketplace.

Communicate effectively as writers, listeners, and speakers in diverse social and business settings.

Apply the critical-thinking and soft skills needed to function in students' multiple roles as citizens, consumers, workers, managers, business owners, and directors of their own futures.

Analyze and follow policies for managing legal and ethical issues in organizations and in a technology-based society.

Investigate the life-long learning skills that foster flexible career paths and confidence in adapting to a workplace that demands constant retooling.

Assess personal skills, abilities, aptitudes, and personal strengths and weaknesses as they relate to career exploration and apply knowledge gained from individual assessment to research and develop an individual career plan.

Examine the goals and principles of a professional organization.

Investigates online and office safety procedures and passes a written safety examination with 100% accuracy.

Demonstrates parliamentary procedure through office staff/chapter organizational meetings.

Apply appropriate typography concepts to industry documents.

Define and use interactive multimedia presentation terminology.

Examine components, use, and evaluation of a portfolio.

Describe the basic components of an interactive multimedia presentation and their working relationships.

Analyze audio and video media.

Describe examples of digital media such as: <ol type="a"><li>graphics</li><li>digital photography</li><li>video</li><li>sound</li><li>music</li><li>animation</li><li>motion</li></ol>

Recognize the various types of formats that can be found in a project.

Apply copyright laws and their applications to text, visual art, design, music, and photography.

Prepares copyrighted text in a document that may be permissibly reproduced with attribution.

Analyze and synthesize composition processes in the production of various projects.

Analyze and apply principles of typography in the production of various projects.

Illustrate how to apply typographical commands to text.

Evaluate the effectiveness of typography in publications.

Contrast and compare, using the following criteria, the typography from at least two print sources: <ol type="a"><li>composition techniques</li><li>different type styles</li><li>different types of justification</li></ol>

Analyze and apply concepts of layout/design principles using various print sources: <ol type="a"><li>special affects techniques</li><li>thumbnail sketches</li><li>guides, rulers, scales, menus, pallets</li><li>text alignment, elements positioning, rules of page design for printed text</li><li>margins, gutters, tabs, letter spacing, tracking, leading, and headings</li><li>columnar grid setup</li><li>style formulation</li><li>master page construction</li><li>spot color and process color to text and graphics</li><li>continuity and form in publications</li></ol>

Illustrate gradations in shapes and blend colors.

Illustrate methods of importing and exporting original text and graphics.

Draw and edit objects through incorporating fills, borders, graphic boxes, illustrations, images, tables, charts, shapes and lines.

Proofread and edit projects for format, mechanics, and clarity.

Demonstrate design and layouts using storyboard techniques.

Create simple illustrations.

Demonstrate development of layouts applying elements of line, shape, texture, and value to create form and space.

Demonstrate the ability to use computer software to identify, create, and manipulate surfaces, scale, rotation, zoom, shading, and layout.

Identify elements styles of animation, art, sketching, and drawing to enhance and express information and communicate ideas.

Demonstrate the ability to operate camera, import digital media, and manipulate the media.

Analyze a variety of different media resources.

Develop continuity and form in multimedia.

Connect the various techniques utilized in software applications, such as photo editing, music sampling, graphic animation, etc.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate information to a target audience for a specific purpose in print, art, and/or speech.

Apply concepts of persuasive communication skills to target audiences using various media.

Compare and contrast the power of digital communication with a traditional communication presentation.

Compose, organize, and edit a presentation incorporating text, imaging, audio, video, and graphic software.

Investigate various products that can be designed and published using multimedia software.

Compose, organize, and edit information using keyboard, scanner, Internet, audio input device, and a digital camera.

Define team roles.

Define team norms.

Identify the components of an interactive multimedia project.

Select a project topic.

Design a map or storyboard for the topic/project.

Create or acquire the necessary graphics, digital photography or video.

Develop or acquire sound and/or music.

Create an animation.

Locate or create content.

Develop a project.

Present the finished product to an audience.

Assess the finished product and evaluate team process.

Incorporate the use of copyright laws, including use of attribution.