Improve your ICT skills in the classroom!
              Release your creative potential!

 Welcome to Park View CLC Creative & Digital Media Course!

The course focuses on using digital technology to help teaching assistants, teachers & educators recognise and apply the creative potential of current & emerging digital technologies in a professional capacity.

The course is structured into  modules which can be taken as a sequential programme of study or as individual modules that allow students to focus on specific digital media knowledge & skills appropriate to their needs.

Taken as a whole programme of study, the course will enable students to choose & apply appropriate digital media tools to any subject & context. Successful completion of each module is recognised by a certificate from the University of Hull (10 CATs point HE Level 4 ).

Successful students completing the whole programme of study (5 modules) are eligible for the University of Hull Foundation Award (Creativity and Digital Media) provided they complete an independent study as a sixth module.

Students are asked to attend two full day sessions and two twilight sessions at the CLC as well as complete a work - related assignment for each module.

Most students say that they develop enormously in confidence as they study and many gain promotion in their jobs and some want to progress to further study.

 

Modules available:

Module 1: ‘Camera & Capture’
 
The specific focus of this module is working with ‘ still images’. Students undertaking the module will learn to use a range of digital cameras, scanners and other image capture tools such as a digital microscope. This course module covers using image editing software to enhance and manipulate images and how to manage images using an image database. As in all modules students will be asked to draw upon their own experiences and apply their learning to their specific working context.
 

Aims

    * Develop student awareness of visual literacy, including the aesthetic, communicative and subjective properties of images
    * Enable student to select and use the appropriate tools for effective capture, recording, creation and storing digital still images.
    * Enable students to create, edit and manipulate high quality images they can use in an educational context.
    * Enable students to adapt and re-purpose images for learning.

Module 2: ‘The moving Image’

This module provides an introduction to capturing and editing digital video to create movies and assets (clips) that can be used in different ways. Students will learn to create video in different formats suitable for use with PowerPoint, publishing on the web, and creating full quality digital video.

Aims

    * Understand the communicative & expressive power of the moving images & employ them effectively in a classroom situation.
    * Enable the development & planning of a moving image project including the use of storyboards, scripts, obtaining permissions/clearances & selecting locations.
    * Carry out the effective capture, recording of moving images using digital camcorders & associated peripherals such as audio equipment & lighting.
    * Edit moving images using timeline based video editing software. Share moving images in formats suitable for use in different educational contexts.

Module 3: ‘Digital Creativity’

This modules combines and expands on the processes covered in the previous two modules and introduces new techniques to extend creativity. This includes advanced movie making using still images and sound. This third module also includes Animation and DVD authoring workshops.

Aims

*    To enable students to develop an understanding of and insight into the educational, and transformational powers of digital media
*    To enable students to extend their experience of a range of digital tools such as audio/music software, animation, time lapse photography etc.
*    To enable students to use digital tools creatively to produce digital assets using both primary and secondary sources that can be used for learning.

and more to come! 

Modules consist of 20 hours taught time at Park View City Learning Centre as well as some independent time outside of the centre. The 20 hours will consist of 2 full days at the CLC and 2 twilight (4.00-6.30) sessions.

Students with an interest in signing up to one or more of the above modules can contact Park View City Learning Centre.

Course costs are £150 per modules for employees of our network schools and £300 for non-network schools. This includes registration with the University of Hull, tutor fees, support and refreshments.

All registered students will qualify for student status at the University of Hull with all the rights of a full time student at the institution.