PODCASTING
incoming 6th – 8th Graders
June 30 – July 4       9am – 12pm
$150

Podcasting is a fun form of audio broadcasting on the Internet. The technology is now available for students to create meaningful podcasts at our schools with great writing, sound effects, and copyright free music. Come join us this summer to learn how to plan, write, record, and edit podcasts so that you can distribute them to the web, for your class projects, or to impress and entertain your friends and family members. In our summer class, you will learn to use freely distributed software, a basic microphone, copyright free resources, and your imagination to script positive messages about the world as you see it.

WEBSITE DESIGN
incoming 5th – 8th Graders
July 7 – July 11    9am – 12pm
$150

Have you ever wanted to create a website for school, your parents, or one of your organizations or clubs? Well, the technology is here, and you can create sites using a variety of free resources. Join us this summer to design and develop web pages and publish them on the web. You will learn to use free web publishing tools, basic web programming, and basic photo editing software to design and develop web sites for a well-defined audience.

VIDEO CREATION
incoming 5th – 8th Graders 
July 14 – July 18      9am – 12pm
$150

Come join us this summer to learn how to script, record, and edit videos so that you can share them with your teachers, friends, and family members. By using imaginative script design, clean writing, sound effects, free video editing software, copyright free music, digital photos, and copyright free video, you can create video projects for distribution via DVD or the web. Students will work in teams to create ten minute video presentations on academic content of their choice. We have limited access to video cameras so if you have a video camera that you can share please bring to class.

TASTE OF TECH

incoming 5th – 7th Graders
July 21 – July 25   
10am – 12pm
$150

Have fun exploring the software programs that are foundational to productive (and fun!) computer use. Students will come away with a wide variety of intermediate/advanced skills using the Microsoft Office suite of applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Paint and Movie Maker. They will create a unique & artistic masterpiece, gather and graph information, learn the hyperlinking concepts of website design, create their own mini-movie using pictures, video and music and finally, they will create animated stories using the basics of Flash. It’s a fast paced environment, designed to give a taste of what the computer can do!