Your mission, should you choose to accept it: use free, engaging multimedia technology resources to overthrow boredom and educational apathy. Create an academic atmosphere where students want to learn!

Goals: Since students often become disinterested in critically important content specific concepts, we will learn how to use a variety of free, multimedia resources to strategically advertise what is to be taught and generate a desire for academic content. We'll learn how to use a number of freely available marketing tools:

• the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or, if we're a really advanced group, GIMPShop
  
• Picasa
• Picnik
• web-based content generators that digitally create a number of advertisements.
• Audacity
• Microsoft Movie Maker

We will learn how to efficiently: and effectively

• identify and replicate a number of advertising ploys in terms of educational content
• become cognizant of copyright issues
• locate free resources for creating educational advertisements
• create and refine compelling graphics (in a variety of file formats) for posters, brochures, web pages, and digital videos
• generate soundtracks and sound effects for audio presentations, slide shows, and videos
• use digital video editing resources
  

By the end of our session, everyone should able to create a series of educational advertisements, i.e.:

• a poster,
• an audio-recording,
• a video commercial

Let's get started! Here's the agenda for this training session.

Contact information:

Jeff Giddens
jgiddens@fdresa.org
Gmail: mrconundrum@gmail.com
Jeff's del.icio.us account

Daniel Rivera
drivera@fdresa.org
gmail: rivera.ga@gmail.com
Daniel's del.icio.us account